242 CIIATlADRIID.f:. 



^Egialitis philippengi?, Jerdon, B. /. iii, p. 640 ; Biddulph, H)is, 



1881, p. 94. 

 ./Egialitis niinutus, Jerdon, B. I. iii, p. 6-H ; Blyth, Ibis, 1867, 



p. 164: Bear an, Ibis, 1868, p. 389 ; Z^/f, S. F. iii, p. 372 ; Hume 



fy Dav. S. F. vi, p. 45(3 ; Hume, S. F. vii, p. 227 ; Cripps, ibid. 



p. 300 ; Hume, Cat no. 850 ; Barnes, Birds Bom. p. 331 ; id. 



Jour. Bom. N. H. Soc. i, p. 57 j vi, p. 22; Littledale, Jour. Bom. 



N. H. Soc, i, p. 200. 

 yEgialitis fluviatilis, Hume, N. $ E. p. 572 ; id. S. F. i, p. 230 ; 



Adam, ibid. p. 394 ; Hume, S. F. ii, p. 289. 

 ^gialitis curonica, Wald. Ibis, 1873, p. 316 ; Ball, S. F. ii, p. 429 ; 



Butler, S. F. iv, p. 12; Armstrong, ibid. p. 340 ; Butler, S. F. v, 



p. 232; Hume $ Dav. S. F. vi, p. 456; Ley ye. Birds Ceyl. 



p. 952 ; Scully Ibis, 1881, p. 587. 

 yEgialitis philippinus, Hume, S. F. iii, p. 179. 

 ^gialitis dubia, Blyth $ Wald. Birds Burm. p. 153 ; Ball, S. F. 



Barnes, Birds Bom. p. 330 ; Hume, S. F. xi, p. 315 ; Dates in 

 Hume's N. # E. 2nd ed. iii, p. 338 ; Sharpc, Cat. B. M. xxiv, 

 p.2T 



, p. 27 ; 

 E. 2nd ed. iii, p. 340. 



The Indian Ringed Plover, Tie Lesser Ringed Plover, Jerdon ; 

 /irrea, II. : Bt/fu ulanka, Rewa, Tel. 



Fig. 54. Head of M. dubia. \. 



Coloration. A white frontal band, surrounded by the black 

 base of tbe forehead, broad sincipital band, lores, and a band from 

 them chiefly beneath the eye, but including the orbit- and the ear- 

 coverts, all black; occiput and nape brown, separated from the 

 black sincipital area by a pale line, and by a broader white streak 

 from the orbital band ; chin, throat, and a broad collar all round 

 the neck white, followed by a black collar all round the base of 

 the neck, broader in front ; upper parts from the neck brown ; 

 quills dark brown ; first primiares blackish, secondaries and later 

 primaries tipped white ; shaft of first primary white almost 

 throughout, of all others dark; tail brown, darker towards the 

 end ; all feathers, except the middle pair, tipped white, the white 

 tips increasing in size and extending along the outer webs in the 



