JEGIAL1T1S. 237 



Structurally there is no difference between the present genus 

 and Charadrius. Like that genus, jEyialitis is 3-toed, with 

 reticulated tarsi and the first quill longest. The only distinction, 

 except in size (all members of the present genus baing smaller), is 

 in plumage. The species of ^Ejlalitis have the upper plumage 

 uniform brown, not spangled with yellow or white, and the lower 

 parts are chiefly white in the breeding-season, the amount of 

 black never exceeding a 'pectoral band. 



Key to the Species. 



a. No white ring round the neck. 



a'. Bill stout; shaft cf third primary partly 



white. 

 a". Bill from gape more than an inch ; 



wing- 5'5 JE. geoffroui, p. 237. 



b". Bill from gape about 0'7o; wing 5 . . &. moityohca, p. '238. 

 b'. Bill slender ; shaft of third primary dark 

 throughout. 



c" . Axillaries white ; whig 5'5 A. asiatica, p. 239. 



d". Axillaries light brown ; wing 6-5 .... ^E. veredu, p. 240. 



b. A white ring round neck. 



c. No black or brown band across breast . . jE. alexandrina, p. 240. 

 d'. A black or brown band across breast. 

 &'. Shaft of 1st primary white throughout, 



of others dark ; wing 4 to 4'5 JE. dubia, p. 241. 



/''. Shafts of all primaries white near end ; 



wing 5 Ail. hiaticula, p. 243. 



y". Shafts of all primaries dark, or that of 



1st whitish near end ; wing 5'5 Ai.. placida, p. 244. 



1442. JEjialitis geoffroyi. The Large Sand-Plover. 



Charadrius geoffroyi, Wagl. Sy*t. Av., Charadrius, no. 19 (1827) ; 



Blyth, J. A. S. B. xii, p. 180 ; id. Ibis, 1865, p. 34 ; Seebohm, 



Charadr. p. 146. 



Charadrius leschenaulti, Lesson, Man. d'Orn. ii, p. 322 (1828). 

 Hiaticula geoffroyi, Blyth, Cat. p. 262. 

 ^Egialitis geoffroyi, Jerdon, B. I. iii, p. 638 ; Hartiny, Ibis, 1870, 



p. 378, pi. xi ; Ball. J. A. S. B. xli, pt. 2, p. 288 ; Walden, Ibis, 



1873, p. 316; Legge, S. F. i, p. 489; Armstrong, S. F. iv, p. 339 ; 



Hume, ibid. p. 463 ; Hume 8f Dav. S. F. vi, p. 4-55 ; Ball, S. F. vii, 



p. 226 ; Hume, Cat. no. 846 ; Vidal, S. F. ix, p. 81 : Butler, ibid. 



p. 426 ; Leffffe, Birds Ceyl. p. 939 ; Oates, B. B. ii, p. 366 : Barnes, 



Birds Bom. p. 329. 

 ^Egialitis lescheuaultii, Godiv.-Aust. J. A. S. B. xxxix. pt. 2, 



p. 273. 

 Cirrepidesmus peoflfroyi, Hume, S. F. i, p. 229; ii, p. 288; Adam, 



S. F. ii, p. 338 ; Butler, S. F. iv. p. 12. 

 Ochthodromus geoffroyi, Sharpe, Cat. B. M. xxiv, p. 217. 



Coloration. In winter plumage the forehead and supercilia are 

 white, a band from the lores under the eye to the ear-coverts 

 brown ; the whole upper plumage brown, the feathers slightly 

 paler towards the edges and with traces of dark shaft-stripes; 



