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more slaty brown, with sandy tips to the feathers ; collar 

 round the neck and underparts sandy brown, spotted on the 

 throat and crop with dark brown ; vent and under tail-coverts 

 white ; beak black ; legs olive-black ; irides dark brown. 

 In summer the underparts have distinct bands of white, 

 chestnut, and black, and the bird differs considerably from its 

 winter plumage. 



Entire length S'5 inches ; culmen 065; wing, carpus to 

 tip, 6'3 ; tarsus 1"4. 



Fig. Gould, B. of Eur. pi. 294. 



235. Etjdromias asiaticus, Pall. Asiatic Dotterel. 



This bird is mentioned by Von Heuglin (Syst. Ueb. p. 57) 

 as frequenting the coasts of the Red Sea and Mediterranean 

 during the winter months. 



TFinter plumage. — Upper parts hair-brown, forehead and 

 over the eye white ; primaries brown, with some white on the 

 sixth and consecutive feathers; tail, all but the two centre 

 feathers, narrowly tipped with white ; underparts white 

 with a broad collar of hair-brown ; beak black ; legs olive- 

 black[; irides dark brown. 



Summer plumage. — Pectoral band chestnut, bounded on the 

 chest with a few black feathers. 



Entire length 7*3 inches ; culmen 0-8 ; wing, carpus to 

 tip, 5'6 ; tarsus 1'5. 



Fig. Harting, Ibis, 1870, p. 202, pi. 5. 



