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South African Museum an example of this species, with a well 

 formed egg inside, shot at the Salt Pan, near Port Elizabeth, on 

 August 23, 1902. Mr. J. G. Brown informs me that this bird is an 

 irregular migrant to Port Elizabeth, arriving about April and depart- 

 ing in October, and that he has only seen it on the edge of the water 

 of the Salt Pans, more rarely on the sea beach. Except for these 

 two instances, it has never before been noticed from South Africa. 



Ch. rufocinctus, Reichw. (" Wiss. Ergeb. Deutsch. Teefsee- 

 Exped. VII," p. 352, pi. xxiii.), obtained at Great Fish Bay in 

 Southern Angola by the Valdivia Expedition, appears to be closely 

 allied, if not identical with this species. 



730. ^gialitis marginata. White-fronted Sand Plover. 



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Charadrius marginatus, Vieill., N. Diet, d Hist. Nat. xxvii, p. 138 



(1818); Layard, B. S. Afr. p. 298 (1867); Scebohm, Ibis, 1887, p. 



338; id. Geogr. Distr. Charadr. p. 161 (1888); Fleck, Journ. Ornith. 



1894, p. 381 ; Shelley, 13. Afr. i, p. 189 (1896) ; Ecichcnow, Vog. Afr. i, 



p. 170 (1900). 

 Charadrius leucopolius, Wagler, Syst. Av. Charadrius, p. 65 (1827); 



Grill, K. Vet. Akad, Handl. Stockh. ii, no. 10, p. 52 (1858) [Knysna]. 

 .Egialitis marginata, Gurney, Ibis, 1860, p. 218 [Natal]; Gurncy, in 



Andersson's B. Damaral. p. 272 (1872); Shelley, Ibis, 1875, p. 85; 



Butler, Feilden and Reid, Zool. 1882, p. 341; Sharpc, ed. Layard's 



B. S. Afr. p. 659 (1884); id. Cat. B. M. xxiv, pp. 282, 747 (1896); 



Harris, Essays and Photos, p. 161, pis. 43, 44 (1901) ; Oates, Cat. B. 



Eggs, ii, p. 349 (1902) ; Short-ridge, Ibis, 1904, p. 202. 



Description. Adult in breeding dress. General colour above 

 pale ashy-grey ; a broad frontal band of white separated from the 

 ashy crown by a black transverse band of black, and from the white 

 chin and throat by a narrow line of black running through the eye 

 to the ear-coverts, a white collar round the hind neck divides the 

 crown from the back ; wing-coverts tipped with white ; wing-quills 

 brown, darker than the back, the shafts white, a good deal of white 

 on the base and the tips of the inner ones, the innermost short 

 secondaries quite white ; two outer pairs of the tail feathers quite 

 white, centre pair dark brown, others white with a dark brown sub- 

 terminal spot ; below white throughout, with a very faint sandy 

 tinge on the breast. 



Iris dark brown ; bill black ; legs dirty flesh ; feet darker. 



Length 6-5 ; wing 4-3 ; tail 1-75 ; culmen 0-65 ; tarsus 1-0. 



Birds in non-breeding dress have no black band across the fore- 







