Birds of the Jhelum District. 103 



Occurs not infrequently in parties and in flocks, but its 

 exact status is not clear; possibly a passage migrant only. 

 Most birds were found in October, January, and March, but 

 odd birds were met with in September and April, and two 

 were seen on the 12th of July. A party of three was found 

 in a sandy torrent bed near Chakwal on October 25, and 

 these were the only ones noted away from the river. 



[Iris dark brown ; bill and feet black. 



The September birds are young ones moulting the body- 

 feathers. The spring females have the lores, crown, and 

 half-collar rusty brown. All belong to the typical race. — 

 C. B. T.] 



JEgialitis dubia. The Little Ringed Plover. 



692, 693, 694. 26.4.1913. Jhelum. Nestlings in down. 



864. 15.9.1913. Jhelum. Imm. Wing 109 mm. 



Common and found throughout the year but probably 

 partly migratory, as their distribution was rather uneven 

 during difl^erent months. Breeds commonly about April on 

 the sand-banks of the river and, I believe, in the sandy 

 " kas " or torrent-beds of the Chakwal plateau, where I 

 found them in pairs in March and April. This Plover is 

 more often found away from the water and feeding on the 

 grassy stretch by the river than the Kentish Plover, which 

 keeps almost entirely to the sand-banks. 



[Iris dark brown; eye-rim pale yelJow ; feet olive-yellow; 

 claws and bill black. 



In full body-moult, just acquiring the black collar and 

 frontal band. Downy young have the feet lead-grey. They 

 differ from yS. Maticola of the same age in the following re- 

 spects : — A more distinct black line above the eye passes 

 round the base of the crown above the white collar ; below 

 the white collar a black band passes round on to the throat ; 

 a black baud sharply separates off the white carpus from the 

 rest of the wing ; a black band separating upper- and under- 

 parts along the flanks to the tail is more distinct. 



I am unable to state whether these specimens belong to 

 the race -J5. d. jerdoni or not. A breeding female from else- 

 where in the Punjab has a broad frontal band of black and 



