366 BIRDS OF BRITISH BURMAH. 



eye dark brown; sides of the head and a broad supercilhim rather densely- 

 streaked with brown ; the whole upper plumage, wing- coverts and 

 tertiaries brown, each feather fringed with dull white ; quills much as in 

 summer, but the later primaries with a white patch on the outer webs ; all 

 the quills margined narrowly with white; upper tail-coverts white, with a 

 few irregular brown bars ; tail brown, closely barred with broad bars of 

 brown ; sides of the throat and neck dull white, boldly streaked with 

 brown ; fore neck and sides of the breast similarly streaked but more 

 sparingly ; remainder of the lower plumage white, the sides of the body 

 streaked and barred with brown ; axillaries blackish brown, narrowly tipped 

 with brown. 



Irides dark brown ; bill, legs and feet black. (Armstrong.) 



Length 12 inches, tail 3'5, wing 7'8, tarsus 1*7, bill from gape 1'4. 



The plumage of this species varies excessively ; in general appearance it 

 is extremely like Charadrius fulvus, but it may always be recognized by 

 its black axillaries, absence of a hind toe, and larger size. 



The Grey Plover is a comparatively rare bird. I have never myself met 

 with it ; but Capt. Wardlaw Ramsay procured it at Tonghoo, and Dr. Arm- 

 strong observed it in the Irrawaddy Delta between Elephant Point and 

 China Bakeer and again at Amherst. Mr. Blyth records it from Arrakan. 

 It is a winter visitor to the Province. 



It is a bird of very wide distribution, being found, according to season, 

 in every portion of the globe except perhaps South America. 



This species appears to be a sea-shore bird in great measure, being com- 

 paratively seldom observed inland except on the banks of very large 

 rivers. 



Genus ^EGIALITIS, Boie. 



714. ^EGIALITIS GEOFFROYI. 



THE GREATER SAND-PLOVER. 



Charadrius geoffroyi, Wagl. Syst. Av., Charadrius, sp. 19. .ffigialitis geoffroyi, 

 Jerd. B. Ind. ii. p. 638; Harting, Ibis, 1870, p. 378, pi. xi. ; Salvad. Ucc. Born. 

 p. 318 ; Armstrong, S. F. iv. p. 339 ; David et Oust. Ois. Chine, p. 426 ; Dresser, 

 Birds Eur. vii. p. 475, pi. ; Hume fy Dav. S. F. vi. p. 455 ; Hume, S. F. viii. 

 pp. 112, 200 ; Legge, Birds Ceylon, p. 939; Oates, S. F. x. p. 237 ; Kelham, Ibis, 

 1882, p. 9. Cirrepidesmus geoffroyi, Hume, S. F. i. p, 229, ii. p. 288 ; id. 

 Nests and Eggs, p. 571. 



Description. Male and female in winter. Forehead, a broad supercilium 

 and the entire lower plumage, with the under wing-coverts and axillaries, 



