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tail coverts dull white or pale grey brown ; primaries and their coverts dark 

 brown ; outer web near the tips and the tips of the secondaries white ; longest 

 tertial reaches to between the 3rd and 4th primaries. In summer plumage, the 

 forehead, lores, ear coverts and beneath the eye are black ; on each side of 

 the forehead is a white spot ; the neck and breast rufous ; the throat and chin 

 white ; head linged with rufescent, and the upper parts margined with the 

 same ; the shafts of the feathers of the back, scapulars and wing coverts in 

 both stages are dark ; primaries dark brown ; the outer webs of the inner 

 ones white, also the tips of the secondaries. 



Length. — 8 109*25 inches; expanse 17 to 19 inches; wing S'4 to 5*98; 

 tail 2 ; bill at front i ; tarsus 1-5 ; legs greenish ; bill black; irides brown. 



Hab. — Sind, Beloochistan Coast, Persian Gulf, Bengal, Rajputana, Kutch, 

 Kattiawar and India generally during winter ; also Burmah. Extremely com- 

 mon along the sea coast and at the mouths of the Indus in large flocks, 

 where they may be seen running along the sandbanks for small Crustacea, 

 insects, molluscs, &c. 



Eudromius ver edits, Gould, and ^gialitis placida, G. R. Gray, also ^. 

 nigrifrons, Cuv., are species entered in the Avifauna of India of which there is 

 no precise information or corroboration of the fact of their having been found 

 in India. I have therefore not included them in this work. 



133. iEgialitis mongolica {Pall), Hariiug, Ibis, 1870, p. 384; 



Salvad., Ucc. Born. p. 316; Hume, Str. F. iii. p. 17O; BIylh, B. Burm. 

 p. 153; Armstrong, Str. F. iv. p. 339. Legge, B. Ceylon, p. 942; Kelham, 

 Ibis, 1882, p. 10. Charadrius mongolus, Pall., Reis.Russ. Reichs. iii. p. 700. 

 Charadrius mongolicus, PalL, Zoogr. Rosso- Asiat. ii. p. 136. Charadrius 

 pyrrhothorax, Temm. in Gould, B. Fur. pi. 299. yEgialitis pyrrhothorax, 

 jerd., B. hid. iii. p. 639, No. 847 ; Murray, Hdbk., ZooL, ^-c., Sind, p. 209 ; 

 id.. Vert. ZooL, Sind, p. 226 ; id., Avif. Brit. Ind. ii. p. 586, No. 1260. 

 Cirrepidesmus mongolicus, Hume, Str. F. \. p. 230; ii. p. 2S9; id.. Nests 

 and Eggs Ind. B. p. 57 1. /Egialitis mongolus, Hume and Dav,, Str. F. 

 vi. p. 455 ; Oates, Str. F. x. p. 237.— The Lesser Saxd Plover. 



In both winter and summer plumage similar to ^E. Geoffroyx, but smaller in 

 all measurements. 



Length — 7 to 7-25 inches; expanse 15 inches; wing 5 inches; tail 1-87 ; 

 bill at front 075 ; tarsus 1-25. The tertials reach to between the first and 

 second primaries ; bill black ; irides brown ; legs dusky plumbeous. 



^a^.— Sind, Beloochistan Coast, Persian Gulf, Afghanistan, and India 

 generally, also Burmah, along the seashore and banks of rivers, not far inland. 



134. -S]gialitis cantiana (/:«//;.), Jerd., B. Ind. iii. p. 647, No, 



848; Armstrong, Sir. F. iv. p. 340; Dresser, B. Eur. vii. p. 483, pi. ; Hujne 

 and JJav., Str. F. vi. p. 45^; Legge, B. Ceylon, p. 947; Oates, Str. F. x. 



