110 MANUAL OF PHILIPPINE BIRDS. 
“Adult male.—Above light brown, a little darker on rump and central 
tail-coverts ; sides of rump and lat’ upper tail-coverts pure white; wing- 
coverts like back; feathers round the bend of wing darker brown; alula 
blackish with white tips; primary-coverts blackish; primary quills 
blackish, internally lighter brown, with dark shafts to all the primaries 
except the first, where it is white; secondaries dusky, lighter and more 
ashy brown internally, inner secondaries smoky brown, with a good deal 
of white on both webs, the long inner secondaries like the back; tail ashy 
brown, tipped with white, and with a subterminal black bar, outer feathers 
more distinctly edged with white, the two outermost almost entirely white, 
with a black patch on inner web corresponding to the subterminal bar 
on the rest of the feathers; base of forehead, lores, feathers above and 
below eye, and ear-coverts black; a broad frontal band of white, followed 
by another broad band of black above the eye, which is again succeeded 
by another black line, which widens out above the eye and forms a distinct 
eyebrow ; hinder crown as far as nape ashy brown; round the neck a broad 
white collar, continuous with the white throat, and followed by a broad 
band of black on lower hind neck, and continued across fore neck, widen- 
ing out on the sides; cheeks, throat, and under surface pure white, in- 
cluding under wing-coverts and axillars. ‘Bill dusky black; feet flesh- 
color; iris dusky brown; ring round eye bright yellow.’ (Hmin.) 
Length, 173 ; culmen, 15; wing, 117; tail, 60; tarsus, 25; middle toe with 
claw, 20. : 
“Adult female.—Similar to the male, but with the markings not so 
well developed, especially the black markings of the face and the black 
bands on the hind neck and fore neck, the latter being much mixed with 
brown. ‘Bill black; feet pale flesh-color; iris dark brown; ring round 
eye bright yellow. (Hartert.) Length, 165; culmen, 16; wing, 117; 
tail, 60; tarsus, 25. 
“Young.—Differs from the adults in wanting the black on the head, as 
well as the black collars on the mantle and fore neck; general tone of 
the plumage more rufescent than in the adults, and the whole of the 
upper surface varied with wavy lines of pale sandy buff, before which is 
a subterminal dusky bar; forehead pale sandy buff; ear-coverts dusky 
blackish; the collar on the fore neck composed of brown feathers, with 
generally a tinge of sandy buff on the throat. The black markings on 
the head and the black collars are gained by a molt in the following 
spring. There appears to me to be also a change of feathers especially 
on the neck collar.” (Sharpe.) 
This little plover was abundant along the Baco River in the vicinity 
of Balete, Mindoro, where it nested on the extensive gravel-flats exposed 
by low water. A nest found April 24, 1905, was a shght hollow, lined 
with a mosaic of small pebbles. The three eggs measure 30.4 by 21.8; 
28.9 by 21.8; 30.9 by 21.8. Their ground-color is very pale gray, almost 
white, carrying a considerable number of small lilac-colored spots. Small 
