6o4 BIRDS OF SOUTH AFRICA. 
in two zones, one of which was about the middle of the egg, and the 
other and darker zone near its obtuse end; they were exceedingly 
large for the size of the bird, measuring respectively 1.2; by 3§ and 
1.8, by 2§ inch.” The following account is given by Mr. Andersson : 
“This species is pretty commonly dispersed over Damara Land 
and Great Namaqua Land, both on the coast and at inland waters. 
It is generally seen in small flocks, and exhibits comparatively little 
fear of man. It feeds chiefly on small insects, and also, at the 
inland rills in Damara Land, on a species of aquatic worm. Its 
flesh is palatable. In the egg of this Plover the ground-colour is 
almost hidden by a profusion of thickly clustering spots and fine 
eccentric lines of grey-brown and sepia-brown; in some instances 
these markings are arranged in a ring round the thicker end of the 
egg.” Senor Anchieta has met with it in considerable numbers 
at Benguela, Quillengues, and Humbe: it is called at the latter 
place Quicobequelababa. 
General colour above, brown, glossed with green; forehead 
white; a white line extends from thence over the eye, and unites 
behind the head, at the base of the occiput; throat grey; this is 
succeeded by a black collar, next by a white space, and that again 
by a broad black one ; from this to the end of the tail it is all pure 
white ; wing-feathers black and dark brown; the latter with the 
secondaries tipped with white; bill black; base yellow; cere round 
the eye and bill, red; iris hazel. Length, 6’ 3”; wing, 4” 7”; 
tail, 3”. 
Fig. Heugl, Orn. N. O. Afr., pl. xxxiv, fig. 5 (head). 
638. Aiaraxiris cEorrroyr (Wadgl.). Geoffroy’s Sand-Plover. 
We shot a single female of this Plover on the Salt River, near 
Cape Town, in 1858. It was along witha flock of Sandpipers feeding 
in the marsh. The late M. Jules Verreaux also mentioned it to us as 
the bird which he himself had shot near Cape Town. Mr. Rickard 
has also procured it near Port Elizabeth, on sandy plains near the 
sea, and it is a well-known visitor to other parts of Africa. 
General colour above, greyish-brown, each feather slightly margined 
with pale-rufous; a white line springs from the nostril and passes 
over the eye, but does not extend to the back of the head; throat, 
and all under parts, white; loral space, greyish-brown, as are also 
patches on each side of the lower part of the neck, which nearly 
