72 BRITISH BIRDS. WITH THEIR NESTS AND EGGS. 



Family CHARADRlWsE. 



CASPIAN PLOVER. 



sEgialitis asiatica, PALL. 







AN adult male of this bird, (which had previously been twice obtained / in 

 Heligoland; see Gatke, "Heligoland," etc., p. 476), 'was shot on the sand 

 dunes near Great Yarmouth, on May 22nd, 1890, and is now in the Norwich 

 Museum. This species may be distinguished from all the other species of sEgialitis 

 which have occurred on our shores, by the chestnut pectoral band of the adult 

 bird, (dusky brown-grey in young birds, but always with indications of chestnut 

 mixed with the grey), brown head, with no black on it, and long legs, (tarsus 

 i '6 inches), which are j^ellovv in adults, pinkish in young birds.. 



It breeds- on the Kirghiz Steppes and in Central Asia, (see Dresser, " P.Z.S." 

 1875, P- 97) atl( l passes through S.E. Europe on migration, wintering in Eastern 

 Africa and India. 



Family CHARADRIIDsE, 



KENTISH PLOVER. 



aliti$ cantiana, LATH. 



THIS bird gets its specific name and the Latin form of it, " Cantiana" from 

 having been described first by Latham, from specimens killed near Sand- 

 wich, in Kent, in 1787. As has already been suggested, local names are misleading; 



