AVES CHARADRIID^ 295 



The adult female does not differ materially from the adult male in 

 size. 



Color. — Adult male (cited). General color above ashy brown, be- 

 coming cinnamon rufous on the neck and crown. Below, white crossed by 

 two black bands. 



Head : Forehead and region in front of the eye and sides of face 

 broadly white. A black frontal band passing from eye to eye and to the 

 region of the ear coverts from below the eye. Back of this black band 

 the head is clear cinnamon rufous, deepest on the occiput, and extending 

 down on the back and sides of the neck. 



Neck: Back and sides of neck bright cinnamon rufous, continuous with 

 the color of the crown. Chin and throat white, continuous with the white 

 region of the forehead and face. A black band across the fore neck. 



Back : Dark ashy brown, including lower back, central rump and 

 central upper tail coverts. The sides of the rump and lateral upper tail 

 coverts white. 



Tail : Central rectrices dark ashy brown. The rest ashy until the three 

 outer ones-; outermost tail feathers pure white, the next chiefly white with 

 some ashy shading ; the third clearly chiefly light ashy. The three outer 

 rectrices with white shafts. 



Wings : Upper wing coverts like the back, the greater series narrowly 

 fringed with white. The bastard and primary coverts blackish. Primary 

 quills blackish on their exposed webs, shading into ashy brown and light 

 ashy or whitish on their inner webs. The shafts of the first primary en- 

 tirely white. The white portion of the shafts of the succeeding primaries 

 restricted to the subterminal portion of each quill. The bases of the inner 

 primaries, white on the outer web, forming a speculum. The seconda- 

 ries are ashy brown, the outer ones being fringed with white at their ends 

 and innermost ones colored like the back. 



Lower Parts : Entirely pure white, crossed by a narrower black band 

 on the lower neck and by a much broader black band across the pectoral 

 region. Under wing coverts and axillaries pure white, the outer series 

 mottled with ashy and the lower primary coverts chiefly ashy. 



Bill, black (Hatcher). 



Legs and feet, black (Hatcher). 



Iris, " Wood-brown " (Durnford). 



The adult female is similar in marking to the adult male, but the black 



