/EGIALITIS. 587 



Length 7 to 7-25 inches; expanse 15 inches; wing 5 inches; tail 1-87 ; 

 bill at front 075 ; tarsus 1-25. The tertials reach to between the first and 

 second primaries ; bill black ; irides brown ; legs dusky plumbeous. 



Hab. Sind, Beloochistan Coast, Persian Gulf, Afghanistan, and India 

 generally, alsoBurmah, along the sea shore and banks of rivers, not far inland. 



1281. .ZEgialitis cantiana (Lath.), Jerd., B. Ind. \\\. p. 647, No. 



848; Armstrong, Str. F. iv. p. 340; Dresser, B. Eur. vii. p. 483, pi. ; Hume 

 andDav., Str. F. vi. p. 456; Legge, B. Ceylon, p. 947; Oates, Str. F. x. 

 p 237; id., B. Br. Burm. ii. p. 368; Murray, Vert. ZooL, Sind, p. 226. 

 Charadrius cantianus, Lath., Ind. Orn. Suppl. pi. Ixvi. ^Egialophilus 

 cantianus, Hume, Str. F. i. p. 230 ; id., Nests and Eggs, p. 571. The KENTISH 

 PLOVER. 



Male in Winter Plumage. Forehead, streak over the eye, extending to the 

 ear coverts, chin, throat, ring round the neck, breast, abdomen and under tail 

 coverts white ; outer tail feathers on each side also white, with a subterminal 

 dusky spot on the inner web ; crown, nape, neck behind, a streak from the 

 base of the bill under the eye, cheeks, back, scapulars, sides of breast and 

 tertials earthy or greyish brown, the feathers with darker shafts ; in some 

 (February specimens) the feathers are tinged with rufous, and those on the fore 

 part of the crown, very slightly (absent in most) white tipped ; tail earthy or 

 grey brown, darker subterminally, and all, except the central feathers, tipped 

 pale fulvous or white ; primaries dusky brown, 4th, 5th and 6th with a patch 

 of white on their outer webs ; secondaries edged and tipped terminally with 

 white ; edge of the wing and under wing coverts white. 



In nuptial plumage, the white of the forehead extends broadly over the eye 

 and beyond it, behind which on the forecrown is a patch of black followed by 

 a reddish or reddish brown patch, tinged with grey. The streak from the base 

 of the bill through the eye to the ear coverts is black, and there is a large patch 

 of black on each side of the breast ; back, scapulars and tertials greyish brown ; 

 the 1st primary is the longest ; primaries dusky brown ; wing coverls grey 

 brown, the greater series tipped with white ; secondaries white at their baes 

 and tips ; under wing coverts, chin, throat and under parts white ; the tail is 

 like the back, the middle feathers longest and dusky brown near the tip, the 

 outer ones on each side white. 



Length. 6-75 inches ; wing 4^3 ; tail 2 ; bill at front '75 ; bill black ; irides 

 brown ; feet dusky greenish. 



Hal. Sind, Beloochistan, Persia, Afghanistan, Punjab, N.-W. Provinces, 

 Oudh, Bengal, Rajputana, Kutch, Guzerat, South India and Ceylon. Abundant 

 along the coast about the Delta of fhe Irrawaddy, and also at various points in 

 Tenasserim. It is also recorded from Arracan. In Ceylon, Major Legge 

 found it breeding in June and July on the banks of salt lagoons, in the 

 south-east portion of the Island. 



