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363. Little Ringed Plover. Mgialitis duhia (Scopoli). 



Mgialitis mmor. Shelley, p. 242. 



Abundant during the winter. Some stay to breed. 



Length about 6 inches. Sunnner phimage, upper parts 

 pale hair brown ; forehead white ; fore part of top of head 

 black, as are the lores, ear coverts, and a complete black collar 

 round the neck ; rest of under parts white ; white on outer tail 

 feathers ; eyelids golden yellow ; legs yellow. 



Young and winter birds have the black replaced by brown, 

 and the young have the upper parts more or less marked with 

 sandy. This species may, when in the hand, be distinguished 

 from the ringed plover by having the shaft of the first flight 

 feather only ivhite. In the ringed plover there are flecks of white 

 on the shafts of the other flight feathers. 



364. Mongolian Sand Plover. jEgialitis mongolus (Pallas). 



Mgialitis mongolicus. Shelley, p. 239. 



There is a specimen of this plover from Egypt in the 

 British Museum (Shelley, p. 239). I know of no other record 

 of it from this country. 



Similar to Mgialitis geoffroyi, but considerably smaller. 



365. North African Wattled Lapwing. Sarcophorus tectus 



(Boddaert). 

 Not mentioned by Shelley. 



There is a specimen of this species in the British Museum 

 marked " Egypt," but I have no further records of it from this 

 country. 



Length about 10 inches. Upper parts sandy brown ; 

 rump and tail white, the latter tipped with a black band ; a 

 broad white wing bar formed by the white tips to the sandy 

 coloured greater wing coverts ; wing quills black with white 

 bases ; crown black, extending in a narrow band down hind 

 neck ; a narrow frontal white band ; lores black ; fore part of 

 cheeks and chin white ; a broad band of white above ear coverts ; 

 throat black, narrowing to a point on upper breast ; rest of 

 under parts ivhite ; loral membrane crimson ; bill rose scarlet 

 with a black tip ; legs and feet rose crimson ; iris yellow. 



366. Spurwinged Plover. Hoplopterus spinosus (Linnaeus). 



Plate, 30 fig. 24. 

 Hoflofterus spinosus. Shelley, p. 232. 

 Resident and numerous in suitable localities in most pro- 

 vinces of Egypt. 



