236 BIEDS OF EGYPT, 



Entire length 1 1 inches ; culmen 1 ; wing, carpus to tip, 

 7*4 ; tarsus 1-5. 



In summer the throat and chest become black. 



Fig. Sharpe & Dresser, B. of Eur, part vi. 



233. Squatarola helvetica, Linn. Grey Plover. 



This Plover closely assimilates to the last species in its 

 habits and distribution, and hke it is only a winter visitant 

 in Lower Egypt. 



Winter plumage. — Very similar to that of C. plumalis, but 

 of a general paler colour, and the bars and spots on the 

 upper parts are dii'ty white, not yellow. The axillary plumes 

 are black ; and it may further be distinguished by the presence 

 of a hind toe. 



Entire length 12 inches; culmen 1-2; wing, carpus to tip, 

 7-4; tarsus 1-5. 



Fig. Sharpe & Dresser, B. of Eur. part vi, 



234, EuDROMiAS MORiNELLUs (Linn.), Botterel. 



Von Heuglin (Syst. Ueb. p. 56) remarks concerning this 

 species, that it is met with during the winter in Egypt and 

 along the shores of the Red Sea. In 1851 he saw a large 

 flock of Dotterel on the desert between Sakkara and the 

 Fayoom. 



Winter plumage. — Top of the head, back, and scapulars 

 brown, with sandy spots and edges to the feathers ; prima- 

 ries dark brown, exterior web of the outer one strongly 

 marked with white ; no other white on the primaries ; tail 



