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CHARADRIID.E 



JSGIALITIS 



Description. Adult Male. Above uniform brown ; forehead and 

 fore part of the crown white, this colour continued as a narrow band 

 above the eye and down the neck, meeting its fellow on the other 

 side and encircling the crown and nape ; a second white band cross- 

 ing the middle of the breast, passes under the shoulder on to the 



FIG. 118.JEgialitis tricollaris and nest with two eggs. From photographs 

 taken by Mr. H. E. Harris at Caledon. 



back and is separated from its ellow by a black patch ; all the 

 coverts and quills brown with white tips, most developed on 

 the inner, secondaries ; shafts of the primaries dark ; central tail- 

 feathers like the back, others tipped with white and with a sub- 

 terminal patch of darker brown ; outer feathers white, with a brown 

 subterminal spot on the inner web only ; below, the sides of the face 

 and neck are ashy-grey, the ear-coverts a little darker; across the 



