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MGIALITIS VARIA. 661 
at Salt River Mouth, near Cape Town, in April, 1865. At that 
time, however, we were not aware of the occurrence of A/. inter- 
medius in South Africa, and a re-examination of the specimens above 
recorded is desirable. Mr. Rickard tells us that he has met with it 
both at Port Elizabeth and East London. Mr. Andersson states 
that it occurs at certain seasons at Walwich Bay, but only very 
sparingly elsewhere in Damara Land. 
Adult, with the upper parts greyish-brown; the forehead with 
two bands, a white anda black; a dark brown band under the eye ; 
aring of white including the throat, succeeded by a broader ring 
of brownish black ; bill orange at the base, black at the tip; feet 
orange ; claws black. Young, without the black band on the fore- 
head, the other bands lighter; the feathers of the upper parts 
margined with pale-brownish ; the bill entirely black in the young, 
yellow at base in the old bird; the feet dull greenish-yellow ; the 
claws black. Length, 8” 6”; wing, 5” 4”; tail, 2” 8”. Bill, 6”; 
tarsus, 1”. 
Fig. Dresser, B. of Eur. vii, pl. 525. 
635. AlGIaLiTis INTERMEDIA (Ménétr.). 
Intermediate Ringed Sand-Plover. 
We shot this species on the Keishkamma River in March, 1870, 
and a specimen from the Orange River was shown to us by 
Dr. Bradshaw, who shot it in that locality. 
It exactly resembles the preceding bird, but is much smaller. 
Length, 6” 7” ; wing, 5" 2”; bill, 5’; tarsus, 9”. 
636. ANeranitis varia (Vieill.). Kittlitz’s Sand-Plover. 
Charadrius kittlitzi, Layard, B. 8. Afr. p. 297. 
This little Plover is common about the chain of lagoons formed by 
the “Salt River,’ and along the sea-shore near Cape Town. We 
have also seen it in the month of September on the rocks at Green. 
Point and on Robben Island, and it is abundant near Zoetendals 
Vley. It breeds at the Berg River in September. The eggs are 
laid in a little depression in the dry mud, which is heaped up a little 
round them. The eggs are olive-brown, profusely and confusedly 
marked with fine lines and spots of black throughout. Axis, 1’ 2” ; 
diam., 10”. On leaving the nest the female, with a few rapid 
motions of her feet, covers the eggs with mud and runs to some 
