or little-known Limicoljfi. 379 



Charadrius leschenaulti, Lesson, Man. d'Orn. ii. p. 322 (1828) ; 

 Swinhoe, J. A. S. B. xxix. p. 259 (1861) ; Layard, B. S. Afr. 

 p. 299 (1867). 



Charadrius griseus, Lesson, Tr. d^Orn. ii. p. 544 (1831). 



" Charadi-ius fuscus, Cuvier," Puchevan, B. Z. 1851, p. 282. 



Charadrius rufinus, BlythjAiin. & Mag. N.H.xii. p. 169 (1843), 

 et Cat. B. Mus. As. Soc. p. 262 (1849) ; Hodgson, Zool. Misc. 

 p. 86 (1844). 



Hiaticula geojfroyi, Biippell, Syst. Uebers. p. 118 (1845). 



Ochthodromus columboides, Beichenbach . 



Hiaticula columbina, Lichtenstein, Nom. Av. Mus. Zool. Berol. 

 p. 94 (1854). 



Cirripedesmus [lege Cirrhepidesmus~\ geoffroyi, Bonap. Compt. 

 Bend. 1856, p. 417. 



jEgialites geoffroyi, Heuglin, Syst. Uebers. Vog. N. 0. Afr. 

 p. 56 (1856) ; Swinhoe, Ibis, 1863, p. 405 ; Jerdon, B. Ind. 

 iii. p. 638 (1864). 



Hab. Shores of Asia, and islands from Sea of Japan to the 

 Bed Sea, Malay Archipelago to Northern Australia, shores of 

 Western Africa, and islands from Egypt to the Cape of Good 

 Hope: — a. India {Blyth, Jerdon) ; ^ep'dul [Hodgson] ; Palestine 

 {Tristram) ; Peninsula of Sinai [Lord] ; Bed-Sea shore [Kitt- 

 litz, Ruppell, Heuglin) ; Abyssinia (Blanford) ; Zanzibar [Kirk) ; 

 Seychelles and Mauritius {E. Neivton) ; Madagascar {E. Newton, 

 Pullen 6f Van Dam) ; South Africa, Cape Town [Layard). 

 b. Japan [Whitely) ; China, Shanghai, Araoy, Formosa 

 [Swinhoe); Philippines (Cuming); Sumatra (5. Milller, Horner); 

 Borneo [Diard) ; Java [Wagler, Horsfield, Kuhl, Van Hasselt) ; 

 Mortai and Gilolo [Bernstein) ; Ceram [Forsten, Hoedt) ; Am- 

 boyna, Ternate, Batjan [Bernstein) ; Flores, Timor [IVallace) ; 

 New Guinea {S. Milller); Australia, Cape York [Mus. J. Gould). 



Description. — Adult, in summer. Bill long and stout, 

 blackish-brown; base of mandible ochreous flesh-colour; inside 

 of mouth flesh-colour; tongue blackish at tip. Iris large and 

 dark brown. Forehead white, with a black band above it reach- 

 ing to the eye on each side ; lore, space under the eye, and ear- 

 coverts black ; top of the head and nape of the neck pale fer- 

 ruginous. Back, wing-coverts, and tertials hair-brown; the 



