738 ^GIALITIS 



Hob. Central and Southern Europe, north to the south coast 

 of England and Southern Scandinavia ; Africa in winter, as far 

 south as the Cape Colony ; Asia Minor and Asia east to Japan, 

 north to Dauria, south in winter through India and China to 

 Australia. 



Frequents the sea coasts, chiefly in sandy and shingly 

 localities, and in general habits resembles ^. hiaticola. It breeds 

 both on the coast and near inland waters, the nest being a 

 mere depression in the soil, sand, or shingle, and the eggs, 3 in 

 number, are usually deposited in May, and are deep ochreous 

 in ground-colour, irregularly marked and blotched with greyish 

 black underlying, and black surface spots and lines; in size 

 they measure about 1*26 by 0'87. 



1029. RINGED PLOVER. 

 JEGIALITIS HIATICOLA. 



zEgialitis hiaticula (Linn.), Syst. Nat. i. p. 253 (1766) ; (Naum.), vii. 

 p. 191, Taf. 175 ; (Hewitson), ii. p. 296, pi. Ixxvii. figs. 1, 2 ; 

 (Gould), B. of E. iv. p. 296 ; id. B. of Gt. Brit. iv. pi. 41 ; Dresser, 

 vii. p. 497, pi. 525 ; David and Oust. Ois. Chine, p. 429 ; Sharpe, 

 Cat. B. Br. Mus. xxiv. p. 256 j Blanf. F. Brit. Ind. Birds, iv. p. 243 ; 

 Tacz. F. 0. Sib. 0. p. 827 ; Saunders, p. 539 ; Lilford, v. p. 29, 

 pi. 10 ; Kidgway, p. 177 ; Poynting, p. 25, pi. 6. 



Pluvier d collier, French ; Lavadeira, Borrelho, Portug. ; 

 Frailecillo, Andarios, Span. ; Corriere grosso, Ital. ; Sand-Lda, 

 Icel. ; Halsband-Regenpfeifer, German ; Bontbekkige Plevier, 

 Dutch ; Star Strandpiber, Dan. ; Storre Strandryle, Norweg. ; 

 Storre-Strandpipare, Swed. ; TylliM, Finn. ; Puvidak, Lapp. ; 

 Suek-Galstutschik, Russ. 



ad. (Sussex). Fore crown, a narrow line at the base of upper 

 mandible, lores, a patch through the eye, and ear-coverts, a broad band 

 crossing the lower throat, narrower behind, deep black ; forehead, a broad 

 band passing above and behind the eye, throat, a collar passing round the 

 neck above the black one, under parts of body, and wings and axillaries 

 pure white ; hind crown, nape, and upper parts dull hair-brown ; quills 

 blackish brown, some of the inner primaries with a white mark on the 

 outer web, the secondaries largely white ; larger wing-coverts tipped with 

 white ; middle tail-feathers brown, becoming black towards the tip ; the 

 rest broadly tipped with white, the outermost white ; beak orange-yellow 

 at base, black at the point ; legs orange ; iris brown. Culmen 0'65, wing 

 5'0, tail 2'45, tarsus 0'92 inch. The female is somewhat duller in colour 

 than the male, and in the winter both sexes have the black colour slightly 

 sullied with dull grey. Young birds lack the black frontal and pectoral 

 bands, and some of the feathers on the upper parts have pale margins. 



