272 BIRDS OF DAMARA LAND. 



Mr. Andersson obtained specimens in the latter plumage in 

 Ondonga, in November 1866, no doubt subsequently to the 

 date of his note transcribed above. 



Mr. Harting (loc. cit.) also gives the Orange River as a locality 

 for this species, on the authority of M. Jules Verreaux. ED.] 



317. JEgialites alexandrinus (Linn.). Kentish Plover. 



Charadrius alexandrinus, Linnaeus, Syst. Nat. p. 253. 

 JtEgialites cantianus, Bole, in Tsis, 1822, p. 558. 

 Charadrius cantianus y Gould's Birds of Europe, pi. 298. 



Layard's Cat. No. 564. 



Charadrius littoralis, Finsch & Hartlaub's Vogel Ost-Afrika's, p. 652. 



This is rather a scarce bird in Damara Land, and 

 hardly to be found except on the sea-coast, in the neigh- 

 bourhood of which it seeks its food on open ground 

 slightly interspersed with grass and aquatic herbage. 

 It feeds on worms and insects, and also on the sand- 

 hoppers which abound on the beach at Walwich Bay, 

 and of which it seems to be particularly fond. 



I have invariably found it in pairs, but have never 

 met with its nest. 



[I have not seen a Damara-Land example of this Plover ; but 

 a specimen from that country is mentioned by Drs. Finsch and 

 Hartlaub (loc. cit.) as forming part of the collection in the 

 Bremen Museum. ED.] 



318. -ZEgialites marginatus (Vieill.). Heywood's Plover. 



Charadrius marginatus, Vieillot's Nouv. Diet. d'Hist. Nat. vol. xxvii. 



p. 138. 



Charadrius leucopolius, Wagler's Syst. Av. sp. 28. 

 Charadrius heywoodi, Gray, in Exp. to Niger, vol. ii. p. 50. 

 Charadrius pallidus, Strickland & Sclater, Birds Damar., Contr. Orn. 



1852, p. 158. 

 Charadrius nivifrons, id. ibid. p. 159. 



