274 BIRDS OF DAMARA LAND. 



preserved in the Museum of Zoology at Cambridge, seems to me 

 to belong to this species, but to be a very small specimen and 

 unusually pale and grey in its coloration. ED.] 



319. JEgialites pecuarius (Temm.). Kittlitz's Plover. 



Charadrius pecuarius, Temminck's PI. Col. pi. 183. 



Charadrius Kittlitzi, Reich enbach's Syn. Av. pi. 105. fig. 1063. 



^Egialites Kittlitzi, Editorial Note in Ibis, 1867, p. 251. 



Charadrius Kittlitzi, Layard's Oat. No. 566. 



Charadrius pecuarius, Finsch, in Trans. Zool. Soc. vol. vii. p. 297. 



This pretty little Plover is not uncommon in Damara 

 Land ; but I do not think that it breeds there. It is to 

 be seen in flocks, often composed of a considerable num- 

 ber of individuals, and feeds on the small insects which 

 are to be found in the moist and humid localities to 

 which it is partial. At some seasons I found it very 

 abundant at Objimbinque, but I do not recollect having 

 ever observed it on the sea-shore. 



The iris is very dark brown, the tibia and toes bluish 

 black, the tarsus greyish. 



[Mr. Layard (loc. cit.) is of opinion that this Plover should 

 bear the specific name of " Kittlitzi" and that the appellation 

 of "pecuarius " should be restricted to the nearly allied but some- 

 what larger race which inhabits the island of St. Helena ; and 

 this view is also taken by Professor Newton in ' The Ibis' (loc. cit.). 

 But it seems to me to be more probable that it is the South - 

 African bird to which the name of "pecuarius " was originally 

 applied, and therefore that the St.-Helena race, if specifically 

 distinct, is at present unnamed. ED.] 



320. ^Egialites tricollaris (Vieill.). Treble-collared Plover. 



Charadrius tricollaris, Vieillot's Nouv. Diet. p. 147. 

 Layard's Cat. No. 565. 





