MGIALITIS MARGINATA. 659 
similar to the male in winter dress. Length, 12”; wing, 7’ 10”; 
tail) 36". 
Fig. Dresser, B. of Hurope, vii, pls. 515, fig. 2, 518, fig. 3. 
632. Alerariris cantTrANa (Lath.). Kentish Sand-Plover. 
Charadrius cantianus, Layard, B. 8. Afr. p. 296. 
The only specimen of the ‘ Kentish Plover” which has fallen 
under our notice occurred in a collection of birds made by the late 
Mr. Villet at the Knysna. We purchased the specimen, which is 
now in the South African Museum. Mr. Andersson has also met 
with it in Damara Land. He writes: “This is rather a scarce bird 
in Damara Land, and hardly to be found except on the sea coast, 
in the neighbourhood of which it seeks its ford on open ground 
slightly interspered with grass and aquatic herbage. It feeds on 
worms and insects, and also on the sand-hoppers which abound on 
the beach at Walwich Bay, and of which it seems to be particularly 
fond. I have invariably found it in pairs, but have never met with 
its nest.” : 
Adult, with the upper parts light brownish-grey ; the forehead 
with two bands, a white and a black; the hind part of the head 
light brownish-red; the loral space and a band behind the eye, 
black ; the throat, and a band crossing the hind neck, white; a 
large patch of black on each side of the lower part of the neck ; bill 
black ; the lower mandible flesh-coloured at the base ; feet dusky ; 
claws black. Young, without black on the head; the bands on the- 
sides, and the patches on the neck, brown; feathers of the upper 
parts margined with whitish. Length, 6” 9’"; wing, 4’ 6’”; tail, 2’. 
Fig. Dresser, B. Eur. vii, p. 523. 
633. Alerauiris marcinara (Vieill.). | White-fronted Sand-Plover. 
Charadrius marginatus, Layard, B. 8. Afr. p. 298. 
This little Sand-Plover is common along all parts of our coast, 
and on any extensive inland pieces of water. It breeds with us in 
the month of November, generally laying two eggs, of a fawn or 
nankin colour, profusely spotted with black, sometimes streaked, 
and sometimes the spots form a circle at the obtuse end: axis, 16” ; 
diam., 11”. 
The young run immediately on their exclusion from the egg. 
They are covered with white down, and on being pursued, cower 
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