580 GLAREOLID/E. 



subterminal black band on the inner web only ; the others on both webs, 

 and all, except the central tail feathers, broadly tipped white ; primaries 

 black ; secondaries with their outer webs concolorous with the back, the 

 inner web, and subterminally on both webs also black, the edges of the tips 

 white. 



Length. lo- 5 to n inches; wing 6'$ to 7 ; bill black, ro6 in length in 

 front ; irides brown. 



Hab. Sind, Punjab, N.-W. Provinces, Oudh, Beloochistan, Persia, Afghan- 

 istan, Kutch, Guzerat and Rajputana. Breeds in similar situations as 

 C. coromandelicus from May to July. Eggs broad ovals, slightly compressed 

 towards one end. In colour they are not unlike those of C. coromandelicus. 

 In size they vary from ri to 1*28 in length and from 0*9 to 1*04 in breadth. 

 Extremely common on bare or open grassy plains. 



Gen. RMnOtiluS. Strickland. 



Bill shorter and more robust than in Cursor ius, straight, the tip slightly 

 widened and curved ; orbits feathered ; 2nd and $rd primaries sub-equal and 

 longest ; tarsus long, scutellate ; feet short ; outer toe joined by web. 



1252. RhinOptiluS bitorquatUS, Jerd, Birds. Ind. iii. p. 628, 

 No. 841 ; Blyfh, J. A. S. B. xvii. p. 254. The DOUBLE-BANDED PLOVER. 



Above sandy brown with a faint pink gloss ; the feathers of the back slightly 

 margined with rusty brown, and the wing coverts with pale rufescent and rusty 

 lateral margins to the feathers; supercilium white, continued round the 

 occiput ; ear coverts streaked dusky and ferruginous ; throat white, a broad 

 rufous band below it, bordered by a white demi-collar, and followed by a 

 broad brown gorget and another white collar margined above and below with 

 dusky ; this again is succeeded by brown, forming an ill-defined band on the 

 lower part of the breast ; rest of the lower parts isabeline ; upper and lower 

 tail coverts white ; primaries and their coverts black, the first two obliquely 

 marked with white, which on the 3rd primary is reduced to a large subterminal 

 spot on the inner web ; tail white at base, black terminally ; all, except the 

 middle feathers, with a small white spot at the tip on the inner web. Bill 

 yellow at base, horny at tip ; irides dark brown ; legs pale fleshy yellow. 



Length. 9-5 to 10 inches ; wing 675 ; tail 3 ; tarsus 2 '6. 



Hab. Eastern Ghauts, off Nellore and in Cuddapah. Frequents rocky and 

 undulating ground with thin scrub jungle. 



Family, GLAREOLID^E. SWALLOW PLOVERS. 



Bill short, convex, broad at the base, compressed to tip ; wings long, first 

 quill longest ; tail even or forked ; tarsi short, reticulated ; three toes in front, 

 one behind, very small; gape large. 



