174 CHARADRIID.E. 



primaries blackish with bright shafts and slight white edgings ; tail with the 

 central rectrices blackish brown, lateral rectrices white : beneath white ; pec- 

 toral collar black; bill black : feet yellow : whole length 6-0 inches, wing 4-1, 

 tail 2-0. Female similar. 



Hab. South and Central America. 



Azara's Sand-Plover is distributed all over South America east of 

 the Andes , and has been obtained by Mr. Salvin in Guatemala. It is 

 a close ally of the Kentish Plover of Europe (J. cantiana), but has 

 the black pectoral band complete in the adult form. 



This Plover appears to be an inland species. Durnford observed it 

 in October, December, and February in the neighbourhood of Buenos 

 Ay res, on " dry sandy ground," frequenting the same sort of places as 

 the Common Ring-Plover in England. He also met with it during his 

 last journey to Tucuman, and Mr. Barrows found it " rather abundant" 

 in small flocks all over the open country in Entrerios. 



391. OREOPHILUS RUFICOLLIS (Wagl.). 

 (SLENDER-BILLED PLOVER.) 



Oreophilus ruficollis, Wagl., Scl. et Salv. Nomencl. p. 143; Durnford, Ibis, 1877, 

 p. 42 (Chupat), et 1878, p. 402 (Centr. Patagonia). Oreophilus totani- 

 rostris, Cab. J.f. O. 1878, p. 199 (Sierra de Cordova). Charadrius tota- 

 nirostris, Seebohm, Plovers, p. 111. 



Description. Above grey, varied with yellowish brown, and striped with 

 black on the back and wing-coverts ; front and superciliaries yellowish brown ; 

 stripe through the eye blackish ; wings blackish with white shafts, and slightly 

 edged with white, their under surface white ; tail grey, with a black subter- 

 minal bar on the lateral feathers : beneath grey, whole throat rusty reddish ; 

 large ventral patch black ; sides of belly and crissum cinnamomeous white ; bill 

 black ; feet yellowish : whole length 10*0 inches, wing 6'5, tail 3*0, bill from 

 gape 1*5. 



Hab. Southern half of South America. 



This pretty and curious Plover, with a Snipe-like beak, inhabits 

 South Patagonia and the Falklands. In the autumn it migrates north, 

 and during the cold season is found sparsely distributed throughout 

 the Argentine States, and passes into Bolivia and Peru. On the 

 pampas it is most abundant in April, but most of the birds seen during 

 that month are travellers to warmer latitudes. 



It is a shy and exceedingly active bird, somewhat larger than the 

 Golden Plover in size, and in the Plata district is usually called Chorlo 

 canela, from the prevailing cinnamon-red tint of the plumage. It is 



