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there is no distinct collar as in 0. geoffroyi; forehead white to middle of 

 eye ; eyebrow, sides of face, and throat white ; lower throat, fore neck, and 

 chest bright chestnut, extending down the sides of the upper breast and 

 followed by a horseshoe mark of black; breast, abdomen, and under tail- 

 coverts pure white; under wing-coverts and axillars dark smoky brown, 

 with ashy whitish tips; quill-lining also dark smoky brown. 'Bill deep 

 olive-brown, blacker on the terminal portion; feet light brownish flesh- 

 color; toes washed with gray, blackish on joints; claws black; eyelids 

 grayish black.' (Swinhoe.) Length, 215; culmen, 25; wing, 165; tail, 

 61; tarsus, 44. 



"Adult in ivinter plumage. Differs from the summer plumage in 

 wanting the rufous chest-band. Above dark brown, including crown; 

 forehead and eyebrow isabelline white, hinder part of the latter shaded 

 with sandy buff, which color also pervades the sides of face and of neck, 

 and forms a faint collar round hind neck; throat isabelline white; lower 

 throat, fore neck, and chest pale brown ; remainder of under surface white ; 

 under wing-coverts, axillars, and quill-lining smoky brown." (Sharpe.) 



Genus ^EGIALITIS Boie, 1822. 



This genus includes a number of small plovers not differing greatly 

 from Charadrius except in size and colors; the plumage is never spotted 

 and, with the exception of a more or less complete dusky band across the 

 chest, the lower parts are pure white. 



Species. 



a 1 . A black or rusty band across fore breast. 



6 1 . Shafts of primaries dark, excepting of the first which may be partly or 



entirely white dubia (p. 109) 



6 2 . Shafts of all the primaries white , peroni (p. Ill) 



a". A smoky brown band on sides of fore breast or faintly across breast. 



alexandrina (p. 112) 



95. XEGIALITIS DUBIA (Scopoli). 

 LITTLE RINGED PLOVER. 



Charadrius dubius SCOPOLI, Del Flor. et Faun. Insubr. (1786), 2, 93. 



.Egialitis dubia SHARPE, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1896), 24, 263; Hand-List 

 (1899), 1, 154; BLANFORD, .Fauna Brit. Ind. Bds. (1898), 4, 241, 

 fig. 54 (head) ; GATES, Cat. Birds' Eggs (1902), 2, 25; MCGREGOR and 

 WORCESTER, Hand-List (1906), 23. 



Basilan (McGregor) ; Bohol (Everett) ; Cagayancillo (McGregor) ; Calayan 

 (McGregor) ; Catanduanes (Whitehead) ; Cebu (Bourns & Worcester, McGregor] ; 

 Guimaras (Steere Exp.} ; Leyte (Everett}; Lubang (McGregor); Luzon (Eve- 

 rett) ; Mindanao (Everett, Steere Exp., Goodfellow) ; Mindoro (Bourns & Wor- 

 cester, McGregor); Negros (Bourns & Worcester); Palawan (Platen, Whitehead, 

 Steere Exp., White) ; Panay (Steere Exp.) ; Sibuyan (McGregor) ; Tablas (Bourns 

 & Worcester). Europe and northern Asia to Japan, in winter to India, Africa, 

 and Malay Archipelago; accidental in California and Alaska. 



