CHARADRIN A, 331 
THE INDIAN RINGED PLOVER. 
Length, 7:25; expanse, 13°5; wing, 4°5; tail, 2:5; tarsus, 1 ; 
bill at front, 0°56. 
Bill black, yellowish at the base; irides deep brown ; orbits 
yellow ; legs yellow. 
Frontal zone white, followed by a black band edged with 
white, which passes over the eyes as a superciliary mark; lores 
black, passing under the eyes through the ear-coverts; chin, 
throat, and lower face, passing as a collar round the hind-neck, 
white, succeeded by a broadish black zone or ring which 
borders the white ring, gradually narrowing behind; upper 
plumage cinereous brown; quills brown; tail, with the central 
feathers ashy-brown, tipped dark-brown, the outermost feathers 
nearly all white, with a brown spot on the inner web, gradually 
increasing in extent and becoming ashy at the base; lower 
plumage and under wing-coverts white. 
The Indian Ringed Plover is a common permanent resident 
throughout the region. It breeds during March and April; the 
eggs are deposited in a depression, scraped in the sand, near the 
waters’ edge; they are usually four if number, and are moder- 
ately elongated ovals, pinched at the small end; the shell is 
fine and compact, but without gloss. They are of a fawn or 
buffy-stone color, spotted and marked with lines and figures of 
blackish-brown, with a few underlying markings of pale inky- 
urple. 
? thes measure 1°14 inches in length by 0°84 in breadth. 
Aégialitis minuta, Pall. 
850.—Jerdon’s Birds of India, Vol. II, p. 641; Butler, Deccan ; 
Stray Feathers, Vol. IX, p. 426; Swinhoe and Barnes, Central 
India; Ibis, 1885, p. 132. 
THE LESSER RINGED PLOVER. 
Length, 6°75; expanse, 12°25; wing, 4°08; tail, 271; tarsus, 
0:92; bill from gape, 0°56. 
Bill blackish, intense yellow at base beneath and gape ; irides 
dark-brown ; legs bluish-grey ; eyelids yellow. 
Very similar to the last but smaller altogether, and with 
proportionally much smaller legs and feet. The upper plumage 
_1s of a somewhat darker shade ; the quills are also blacker; the 
lateral tail-feathers have more white; the base of the lower 
mandible is more yellow (this at once serves to distinguish 
the two), and the tertiaries are less lengthened. 
The distinctness of this species from the last is disputed by 
many, but Mr. Hume has in “Stray Feathers,” at various times, 
clearly pointed out the differences. It has not been recorded 
from Sind. Its mode of nidification resembles that of the 
preceding species in all respects. 
