112 MANUAL OF PHILIPPINE BIRDS. 



"In some specimens, apparently very old males, the black band is 

 continued right across the fore neck. 



"Young birds resemble the adults, but have no facial black markings 

 or any black or rufous on the mantle or sides of the chest, the whole of 

 the upper surface being uniform ashy brown, with broad sandy-buff 

 margins." ( Sharpe. ) 



This little plover differs from ^gialiti* dubia and ^-E. alexandrina in 

 having a comparatively stout bill. 



Whitehead took three eggs of the Malay sand-plover at Cape Engano, 

 Luzon, on May 26, 1895. They are described as follows: "Shape short 

 ovate. Ground-color pale cream; the whole shell with small blotches, 

 streaks, and zigzag pencillings of rich sepia and pale lavender. Measure- 

 ments 30 mm. by 22 mm. The three eggs were deposited on the bare 

 sand among sea-drift and only a few yards above high-water mark. 

 The female was shot. On the same day young plovers nearly ready to fly 

 were captured." (Grant and Whitehead.) 



97. /CGIALITIS ALEXANDRINA (Linnaeus). 

 KENTISH PLOVER. 



Charadrius alexandrines LINN.EUS, Syst. Nat. ed 10, (1758), 1, 150. 

 &gialitis alexandrina SHABPE, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1896), 24, 275; 



Hand-List (1899), 1, 154; GATES, Cat. Birds' Eggs (1902), 2, 26; 



MCGREGOR and WORCESTER, Hand-List (1906), 24. 



Bohol (Everett, Stecre Exp.) ; Calayan (McGregor) ; Cebu (McGregor) ; Cuyo 

 (McGregor) ; Mindanao (Everett) ; Palawan (Whitehead, Platen, Everett, Steere 

 Exp.)-, Panay (Steere Exp.) ; Siquijor (Steere Exp.); Ticao (McGregor). 

 Europe and central Asia to China and Japan, in winter to Africa, Indian Penin- 

 sula, and Australia. 



"Adult male in breeding plumage. Above pale earthy brown, with 

 faint remains of paler margins to the feathers; wing-coverts like back, 

 marginal ones blackish brown, greater series darker brown with a narrow 

 white edging to the tip ; alula and primary-coverts dark sepia-brown, the 

 latter fringed with white at the tip; quills sepia-brown, with white 

 shafts to the primaries, which are pale brown on inner web; inner 

 primaries for the most part white toward the base of outer web ; second- 

 aries dusky brown with white tips, inner ones also white along the 

 margins of both webs, innermost long secondaries brown like back ; lower 

 back, rump, and upper tail-coverts dark sepia-brown, lateral ones white. 

 forming a patch on each side; the four center tail-feathers dark sepia- 

 brown, paler toward the base, and having white shafts to the center 

 ones, three outer feathers white, next ones smoky brown, with white 

 shafts; crown ashy brown, washed with light tawny-rufous, especially 

 distinct toward nape; hind neck and sides of neck white, forming a 

 collar; forehead and a distinct eyebrow white, with a broad black band 

 separating white of forehead from brown of crown; eyelid and loral 

 streak black ; feathers below the eye and sides of face white, with a black 



