CHARADRIID.E ^GIALITIS 367 



The female resembles the male, but has no black patch on-th 

 crown, and the patch on the side of the breast is brown not black. 

 In non-breeding plumage the black on the crown and breast are not 

 so well developed and are brown not black. 



Distribution. The Kentish Plover breeds throughout Europe 

 and Asia from England to Japan, and winters in Africa, India and 

 Australia. 



It is very rarely found so far south as South Africa, in fact, the 

 only record of its occurrence within our limits is that of Andersson, 

 who met with it at Walvisch Bay, on the coast of Damaraland. An 

 example obtained there by him is now in the British Museum. 



Layard states that he obtained a specimen from Knysna. This 

 individual is still in the South African Museum, but is undoubtedly 

 a Einged Plover (^Egialites hiaticold) in winter dress. 



728. JSgialitis tricollaris. Three-banded Plover. 



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Charadrius indicus, Lath., Ind. Orn. ii, p. 750 (1790). 



Charadrius tricollaris, Vieill., N. Diet. d'Hist. Nat. xxvii, p. 147 (1818) ; 

 Layard, B. S. Afr. p. 296 (1867); id. Ibis, 1869, p. 76; Heuglin, 

 Orn. N. 0. Afr. ii. pt. 1, p. 1027, pi. 34, fig. 5 (1873) ; Holub fr Pelz., 

 Orn. Sud-Afr. p. 240 (1882) ; Seebohm, Ibis, 1887, p. 338 ; id. Geogr. 

 Distr. Charadr. p. 134, with fig. (1888) ; Bryden, Gun and Camera, 

 p. 167 (1893); Fleck, Journ. Ornith, 1894, p. 381; Eeichenow, Vog. 

 Afr. i, p. 176 (1900). 



Charadrius bitorquatus, Licht., Verz. Donbl. p. 71 (1823) ; Grill, K. Vet. 

 Akad. Handl ii, no. 10, p. 52 (1858). 



^gialites tricollaris, Gurney, Ibis, 1865, p. 271 [Natal]; id. in Anders- 

 son's B. Damaral. p. 274 (1872); P. L. Sdater, P. Z. S. 1866, p. 23 

 [Cathcart] ; Harting, P. Z. S. 1874, p. 457, pi. 60, fig. 5 [eggs] ; Shelley, 

 Ibis, 1875, p. 85 ; Ay res, Ibis, 1877, p. 348, 1880, p. 266 ; Oates, Mata- 

 beleland, p. 326 (1881) ; Butler, Feilden and Reid, Zool 1882, p. 341 ; 

 Sliarpe, ed. Layard's B. S. Afr. p. 662 (1884) ; Symonds, Ibis, 1887, 

 p. 334 ; Harris, Essays and Photos, p. 110, pi. xxvii (1901) ; Haagncr, 

 Ibis, 1902, pp. 574, 580; Whitehcad, Ibis, 1903, p. 236; Shortridge, 

 Ibis, 1904, p. 202. 



Oxyechus tricollaris, Sharpe, Cat. B. M. xxiv, p. 247 (1896) ; Shelley, B. 

 Afr. i, p. 190 (1896); Woodward Bros., Natal B., p. 185 (1899); 

 Marshall, Ibis, 1900, p. 265 ; Alexander, ibid, p. 454 ; Oates, Cat. B. 

 Eggs, ii, pp. 22, 348 (1902) ; Sliarpe, Ibis, 1904, p. 9 [Deelfontein] . 



" Strandlooper " of the Dutch, " Sea-Cow Bird " of the Hunters of the 

 Interior. 



