BREEDING OP THE KENTISH RINGED PLOVER. 



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NOTES ON THE BREEDING OP THE KENTISH RINGED 



PLOVER (MGIAUTIS CANTIANUSJ WITHIN 



INDIAN LIMITS. 



By Lieut. H* E. Barnes. 



Many years ago Captain (now Colonel) Vincent Legge found 

 the Kentish Dotterel breeding in numbers on the banks of the salt 

 pans in the south-eastern portion of the island of Ceylon. 



Mr. Hume having received eggs and a skin from Captain Legge 

 writes as follows in Nests and Eggs of Indian Birds : — 



" Two of these eggs sent me by Mr. Legge measure respectively 

 1*23 and 1*2 by 0-87 and 0*85, and therefore in dimensions corre- 

 spond precisely with those of the next species,* as, indeed, they do 

 also in colour, shape, and markings. 



" Mr. Legge also favoured me with one of the old birds, which he 

 considered to have belonged to the eggs. It is clearly Cantianus, 

 but it is in entirely non-breediDg plumage (though killed on the 

 7th July) without either black or rufous about the head. He 

 also informs me that all the specimens killed by him at that time 

 were similarly in nou-breeding plumage. 



* 849. Mgialitis dubia. 



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