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there is no distinct collar as in O. geoffroyi; forehead white to middle of 
eye; eyebrow, sides of face, and throat white; lower throat, fore neck, and 
chest bright chestnut, extending down the sides of the upper breast and 
followed by a horseshoe mark of black; breast, abdomen, and under tail- 
coverts pure white; under wing-coverts and axillars dark smoky brown, 
with ashy whitish tips; quill-lning also dark smoky brown. ‘Bill deep 
olive-brown, blacker on the terminal portion; feet light brownish flesh- 
color; toes washed with gray, blackish on joints; claws black; eyelids 
grayish black.’ (Swinhoe.) Length, 215; culmen, 25; wing, 165; tail, 
61; tarsus, 44. 
“Adult in winter plumage—bDiffers from the summer plumage in 
wanting the rufous chest-band. Above dark brown, including crown; 
forehead and eyebrow isabelline white, hinder part of the latter shaded 
with sandy buff, which color also pervades the sides of face and of neck, 
and forms a faint collar round hind neck; throat isabelline white; lower 
throat, fore neck, and chest pale brown ; remainder of under surface white ; 
under wing-coverts, axillars, and quill-lining smoky brown.” (Sharpe.) 
Genus AUGIALITIS Boie, 1822. 
This genus includes a number of small plovers not differing greatly 
from Charadrius except in size and colors; the plumage is never spotted 
and, with the exception of a more or less complete dusky band across the 
chest, the lower parts are pure white. 
Species. 
@, A black or rusty band across fore breast. 
bt. Shafts of primaries dark, excepting of the first which may be partly or 
EUAN EAS A Wr 0 ets rr a ree Ae ie dubia (p. 109) 
Pomotatos ar all ithe primaries, Whites 2. cs ese eee rcs ese aeee peroni (p. 111) 
a>, A smoky brown band on sides of fore breast or faintly across breast. 
alexandrina (p. 112) 
95. AAGIALITIS DUBIA (Scopoli). 
LITTLE RINGED PLOVER. 
Charadrius dubius Scorout, Del Flor. et Faun. Insubr. (1786), 2, 93. 
Hgialitis dubia SHARPE, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1896), 24, 263; Hand-List 
(1899), 1, 154; BLANForD, Fauna Brit. Ind. Bds. (1898), 4, 241, 
fig. 54 (head); Oates, Cat. Birds’ Eggs (1902), 2, 25; McGrecor and 
WoRCESTER, Hand-List (1906), 23. 
Basilan (McGregor); Bohol (Everett); Cagayancillo (McGregor); Calayan 
(McGregor) ; Catanduanes (Whitehead) ; Cebu (Bourns & Worcester, McGregor) ; 
Guimaras (Steere Exp.); Leyte (Everett); Lubang (McGregor); Luzon (£ve- 
rett); Mindanao (Hverett, Steere Exp., Goodfellow) ; Mindoro (Bourns & Wor- 
cester, McGregor) ; Negros (Bourns & Worcester) ; Palawan (Platen, Whitehead, 
Steere Exp., White) ; Panay (Steere Exp.) ; Sibuyan (McGregor) ; Tablas (Bourns 
€ Worcester). Europe and northern Asia to Japan, in winter to India, Africa, 
and Malay Archipelago; accidental in California and Alaska. 
