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On the south-west coast of this continent it has been procured 

 at Benguela. In Europe it has, according to Giglioli, the 

 Itahan naturalist, occurred in Italy, and it may possibly be 

 found in Southern Russia, as it has been met with on the 

 eastern shores of the Caspian Sea. 



29. jEgialitis mongolica. 



(Mongolian Sandplover). 



Charadrius mongola^ Pallas, Reese, iii., \i. 700, (1776). 

 Ochthrodromus inornatus^ Gould, Handb. B. of Austr., ii., p. 237, 



(1865). 

 JEgialitis mongolictcs, (Pallas) Harting, Ibis, 1870, p. 384; Legge, 



Birds of Ceylon, p. 943, (1880) ; Ramsay, List Austr. B,, p. 19, 



(1888). 



The Mongolian Sandplover has a wide oriental range, but 

 is more restricted in its African distribution than the afore- 

 mentioned species. Like that bird it is found in Turkestan, 

 where it breeds, and migrates in the cool season to India, 

 Burmah, Ceylon, the Andamans, and southwards to Singa- 

 pore, and the Malay islands. In this sub-region it has been 

 met with hi Borneo, Java, Ceram,the Aru islands, and New 

 Guinea, from which latter place it finds its way to the north 

 coast of Australia, along which it is found extending south- 

 wards to Rockingham Bay, from where Dr. Ramsay records 

 it, and beyond which in this direction it has not yet been met 

 with.* In the Indian and Ceylonese sub-region it is very 

 abundant, many non-breeding birds remaining there through- 

 out the year. Eastward of Turkestan it is found in Thibet, 

 Mongolia (where Pallas first described it from), parts of 

 South East Siberia, the Corea, on the shores of the Sea of 

 Okhotsk, in Japan, and thence northwards to the Choris 

 Peninsula in Behring Strait. On migration to and from 

 these northern localities it is met with in South East China 

 and the Philippines, south of which the migratory flocks 

 probably join the more westerly ones which we have seen 

 pass down the Malay Peninsula to the larger Malay islands. 



In Western Asia, like the last species, the Mongolian 

 Sandplover is found in Palestine, in the Persian Gulf, and 

 along the Red Sea, but southwards on the African coasts it 

 appears to be rarer than in the afore-mentioned localities, 



* I have examined a Sandplover shot in the north of Tasmania which is 

 doubtfully referable to this species, corresponding in general plumage, 

 length of wing, bill, and tarsus with Ceylonese examples in my collection, 

 but the indistinct markings across the chest point to the possibility of its 

 being an immature ^^gialitis bicincta. 



