586 CHARADRIN/E. 



p. 475, pi. ; Hume and Dav., Sir. F. vi. p. 455 ; Hume, Str. F. viii. pp 112, 

 2OO; Legge, B. Ceylon, p. 939; Oates, B. Br. Burm. ii. p. 366; Kelham, 

 Jbis, 1882, p. 9; Murray, Vert. Zool., Sind, p 226. Cirrepidesmus Geof- 

 froyi, Hume, Str. F. i. p. 229 ; ii. p. 288 ; id., Nests and Eggs Ind. B. 

 p. 571. The LARGE SAND PLOVER. 



In winter plumage, head, neck, nape, back, sides of the breast, scapulars 

 and wing coverts greyish brown ; a streak from the base of the mandible 

 under the eye to the ear coverts slightly darker ; forehead, a streak above the 

 eye, chin, throat, sides of the neck and rest of the lower parts white ; upper 

 tail coverts dull white or pale grey brown ; primaries and their coverts dark 

 brown ; outer web near the tips and the tips of the secondaries white ; longest 

 tertial reaches to between the 3rd and 4th primaries. In summer plumage, the 

 forehead, lores, ear coverts and beneath the eye are black ; on each side of 

 the forehead is a white spot ; the neck and breast rufous ; the throat and chin 

 white; head tinged with rufescent, and the upper parts margined with the 

 same ; the shafts of the feathers of the back, scapulars and wing coverts in 

 both stages are dark ; primaries dark brown ; the outer webs of the inner 

 ones white, also the tips of the secondaries. 



Length. 8 to 9^25 inches ; expanse 17 to 19 inches ; wing 5*4 to 5*98 ; 

 tail 2 ; bill at front i ; tarsus 1-5 ; legs greenish ; bill black; irides brown. 



Hal. Sind, .Beloochistan Coast, Persian Gulf, Bengal, Rajputana, Kutch* 

 Kattiawar and India generally during winter ; also Burmah. Extremely com- 

 mon along the sea coast and at the mouths of the Indus in large flocks, 

 where they may be seen running along the sandbanks for small Crustacea, 

 insects, molluscs, &c. 



Eudromius veredus, Gould, and JEgialitis placida, G. R. Gray, also sE. 

 nigrifrons, Cuv,, are species entered in the Avifauna of India of which there is 

 no precise information or corroboration of the fact of their having been found 

 in India. I have therefore not included them in this work. 



1280. -SEgialitis mongolica (Pall.), Harting, Ibis, 1870, p, 384; 



Salvad., Ucc. Born. p. 316; Hume, Str. F. iii. p. 170; Blyth, B. Burm. 

 p. 153; Armstrong, Str. F. iv. p. 339. Legge, B. Ceylon, p. 942; Kelham, 

 Ibis, 1882, p. 10. Charadrius mongolus, Pall., Reis.Russ. Reichs. iii. p. 700. 

 Charadrius mongolicus, Pall., Zoogr. Rosso- Asiat. ii. p. 136. Charadrius 

 pyrrhothorax, Temm. in Gould, B. Eur. pi. 299. yEgialitis pyrrhothorax, 

 Jerd., B. Ind. iii. p. 639, No. 847 ; Murray, Hdbk., Zool., Sfc., Sind, p. 209 ; 

 id., Vert. Zool., Sind, p. 226. Cirrepidesmus mongolicus, Hume, Str. F. i. 

 p. 230 ; ii. p. 289; id., Nests and Eggs Ind. B. p. 571. ^gialitis mongolus, 

 Hume and Dav., Str. F. vi. p. 455 ; Oates, Str. F. x. p. 237. The LESSER 

 SAND PLOVER. 



In both winter and summer plumage similar to sE. Geoffroyi, but smaller in 

 all measurements. 



