I 9 g THE RINGED PLOVER. 



(v.) Food. 



(vi.) Nest, (vi, a] Breeding season habits, 



(vii.) Eggs, 



(viii.) General habits, 



(ix.) Enemies, 



(x.) General observations. 



(i.) SYNONOMY. 



* Charadrius hiaticula, Linn., Syst. Nat. i., p. 253 (1776). 



Macgill, Brit. B., iv., p. 116 (1850). 



Seebohm Brit. B., iii., p. 20 (1885). 

 Charadrius hiaticula major, Seebohm Brit., B., iii., p. 20 



(1885). 



Charadrius aegypiicus, Linn Syst. Nat., i., p. 254 (1766). 

 Charadrius hiaticola, Temminck's Man. d'Orn., p. 325 (1815). 

 Charadrius torquatus (Briss), Leach Cat., Mamm., &c., Brit. 



Mus., p. 28 (1816, nee Linn.). 

 Charadrius major, Tristram fide Gray Handb., B. ii., p. 15 



(1870). 

 Chaiadrius homey eri, Brehm, Naummaniia 1855, p. 285. 



* Aegialitis hiaticula, Dresser, B. Eur. VII., p. 467, p. 525 



(1876), B. O. W. List of Brit. Birds, 

 . p. 159 (1883), Saunders' ed., Yarrell's 



Brit. Birds, III., p. 257 (1883). 

 id., Man, Brit. B., p. 523 (1889). 

 Lilford Col. Fig. Brit., B., p. LXX. (1891). 

 Boie, Isis (1822), p. 558. 



Aegialitis hiaticola, Sharpe, Cat. B. Brit. Museum, XXIV., p. 256. 

 ibid, Handbook Brit. Birds, Vol. III., p. 158 

 (1896). 



Aegialitis auritus, Hengl. Syst. Uebers, p. 56 (1886). 

 Aegialitis septentrionalis, Brehum, Vog. Deutsch, p. 548 (1831). 

 Aegialitis hiaiiculoides, Heagl. Syst. Uebers, p. 56 (1856). 

 Aegialitis intermedius (nee Menebr.) Gurney, Ibis (1868), p. 255. 

 Sharpe's Ed. Layard's B. of S. Af., p. 66 1. 



