152 MANUAL OF PHILIPPINE BIRDS. 
crown, sides of face, and sides of neck golden straw-color; throat white, 
inclining to golden straw-color{ fore neck; an infra-loral streak of 
black from fore part of cheeks to fore part of eye; hinder crown black, 
extending in a broad line down hind neck and overspreading upper 
mantle; chest, breast, and sides of body, as well.as under wing-coverts 
and axillars, sooty black; entire abdomen, lower flanks, thighs, and under 
tail-coverts white; quills glossy black below. ‘Bill greenish gray at the 
extreme tip, then black to near nostrils; basal portion of upper mandible 
and the helmet aurora-red ; base of lower mandible hght primrose-yellow ; 
fore part of tibia red, with a mixture in patches of yellow and greenish 
gray; iris light sulphur-yellow; eyelash light ash-gray.’ (Gould.) 
Length, 229; culmen with frontal lappet, 46; wing, 142; tail, 41; tarsus, 
61; middle toe with claw, 91. 
“Adult female-—Resembles the male in color but is decidedly larger ; 
a male from Port Essington measures 178 in length and has the wing 
119, while a female from the same place measures 215 in length and has 
the wing 142. 
“Young.—Differs considerably from the adult. General color olive- 
brown above, the feathers with sandy-rufous margins; crown bright 
rufous; under surface entirely white.” (Sharpe.) 
Suborder CURSORIL. 
Family GLAREOLIDZ. 
Bill short; culmen curved; gape deeply cleft, its width greater than 
length of culmen; wings long and pointed reaching beyond the forked 
tail; tarsus twice the length of culmen from base and more than middle 
toe with claw; claw of middle toe half the length of its toe and pectinate 
on its inner edge. 
Genus GLAREOLA Brisson, 1760. 
Characters same as those given for the Family. 
128. GLAREOLA ORIENTALIS Leach. 
EASTERN SWALLOW PLOVER. 
Glareola orientalis Leacu, Trans. Linn. Soc. (1820), 132, pl. 13; Oarss, 
Birds Brit. Burmah (1883), 2, 361; Cat. Birds’ Eggs (1902), 2, 78; 
SHARPE, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1896), 24, 58; Hand-List (1899), 1, 
171; BLuanrorp, Fauna Brit. Ind. Bds. (1898), 4, 214 fig 48 (head) ; 
McGrecor and WorcEsTER, Hand-List (1906), 30. 
Calayan (McGregor); Luzon (Steere Eap., MeGregor); Negros (Layard) ; 
Palawan (Whitehead, White). China, eastern Siberia, Indian Peninsula, Indo- 
Chinese countries; in winter Malay Peninsula and Archipelago to Australia. 
