106 MANUAL OF PHILIPPINE BIRDS. 
92. OCHTHODROMUS GEOFFROYI (Wagler). 
LARGER AND PLOVER, 
Charadrius geoffroyi WAGLER, Syst. Av. (1827), 61. 
Ochthodromus geoffroyi SHARPE, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1896), 24, 217; 
Hand-List (1899), 1, 153; Oarres, Cat. Birds’ Eggs (1902), 2, 20; 
McGrecor and WorcESTER, Hand-List (1906), 23. 
Ma-tang va-ca de collar, general name for small plovers. 
Bantayan (Mc@regor) ; Batan (McGregor) ; Bohol (Everett, McGregor); Ca- 
gayancillo (McGregor) ; Cebu (McGregor) ; Cuyo (McGregor) ; Leyte (Hverett) ; 
Lubang (McGregor) ; Luzon (Whitehead, McGregor); Negros (Everett, Bourns 
& Worcester); Mindanao (Mearns); Mindoro (McGregor, Porter); Palawan 
(Everett, Lempriére, Platen, Whitehead, Steere Exp., Bourns & Worcester, 
White) ; Panay (Steere Exp.) ; Pata (Mearns) ; Siquijor (Bourns € Worcester). 
Japan, Formosa, and Hainan, south in winter to Africa, India, and Australia. 
“Adult in breeding plumage.—Above light brown, with a slight olive- 
greenish gloss, wing-coverts like the back, with obsolete indications of 
paler fringes to some of the feathers, greater series tipped with white, 
forming a narrow wing-bar; alula, primary-coverts, and quills brown, 
primaries darker brown along their outer webs and at tips, shafts white ; 
inner primaries with a white mark toward the base of outer web ; second- 
aries brown, with white fringes to the end of outer web and white tips, 
shafts white, with a little extension along the sides of the shaft in the 
inner secondaries ; innermost long secondaries like back, outer ones white 
along their outer web; rump and upper tail-coverts a little lighter and 
more ashy brown than the back, with white fringes to most of the 
feathers; sides of rump white; tail ashy brown with a broad white tip, 
a subterminal shade of darker brown, forming an obsolete, subterminal 
band; outer feathers with more or less white near base of inner web, 
outermost one almost entirely white, except for a slight shade of smoky 
brown and a slightly indicated subterminal shade of darker brown ; hinder 
crown light brown, entirely surrounded by pale cinnamon-rufous, which 
occupies fore part of crown and extends down sides of neck round hinder 
neck, where it forms a broad collar of pale cinnamon-rufous; base of 
forehead white, followed by a narrow black band; lores black; feathers 
in front of and below the eye black; which unite with a black band along 
top of ear-coverts; sides of face and under surface of body white; across 
fore neck and chest a broad band of cinnamon-rufous or light chestnut, 
which extends a little way down the sides of upper breast; under wing- 
coverts, axillars, and quill-lining white. Length, 215; culmen, 25; wing, 
140; tail, 51; tarsus, 37. 
“Adult in winter plumage.—Differs from the summer plumage in 
wanting the rufous chest and in the absence of all facial markings. Above 
uniform brown, head like the back, hind neck paler and more ashy brown ; 
lores, forehead, eyelid, and a broad eyebrow white; feathers below eye 
brown extending in a streak along ear-coverts; cheeks and entire under 
