36 Direilor' s Annual Report. 



lyength 10.50-12, bill i.io, wing 7.50, tarsus 1.95, mid-toe and 

 claw 1. 15. Hab. Northern parts of the northern hemisphere, south 

 in winter to the Pacific islands. 



33. Charadrius fulvus Gm. Dululi. Asiatic Golden Plover. 



Charadriiis fiilvui, Gmelin, Syst. Nat., 17SS, I., p. 687; Seebohm, Geog. Dist. of Charad., p. 99; 



Roth.schild, Avifauna Laj'san, I., p. 11 ; Hartert, Nov. Zool., V., 66; Oust. II., p. 46. 

 Charadrius domiiiiats fitlvHs, Raflfl., Trans. Linn. Soc.. XIII., p. 32S; Ridge. Pro. U. S. Nat. 



Mus., 18S0, p. 198. 

 Charadrius dontinicus, Sharp, Cat. B. Brit. Mus., XXIV., p. 191. 



The Asiatic Golden Plover was common, both in the inland 

 ^'alleys and along the sea shore, all during the summer months. 

 Many of the specimens were fine adults, with organs in erotic state ; 

 the greater number, however, were immature birds. I was in- 

 formed by a resident sportsman that these birds arrived in great 

 flocks during the fall and spring months. A fine series was secured. 

 Seven specimens with plumage graduating from adult to immature, 

 but apparently full grown birds, give the following measurements : 



General color above (adult males) mottled with black, golden 

 buff and whitish ; primaries and secondaries dusky, the shafts of 

 the primaries brown followed by white near the end and tipped 

 with du.sky ; a frontal band and a di.stinct eyebrow of white, this 

 white line extending down the sides of the neck to the white on the 

 sides of the body ; general under color black, with a few feathers 

 .showing buffy or white ; axillaries smoky brown ; bill and feet 

 dark; tarsus a dusky gray ; eye dark brown. Hab. (Seebohm) 

 "Breeds on the tundras of eastern Siberia, from the valley of the 

 Yenisei to the Pacific. It passes through Japan, South Siberia, 

 and Mongolia on migrations, and winters in India, Burmah, China, 

 islands of the Malay archipelago, Australia, and the islands of the 

 Pacific, east to New Zealand, west to Heligoland." 



34. Charadrius mongolicus Pall. Mongolian Sand 



Dotterel. 



cV/aradrius mongoliriis. Pallas, Zoogr. Rosso- A.siat., 1S26, II., p. 136; Seebohm, Geog. Dist. of 



charad., p. 147; Hartert, Nov. Zool., V., p. 66; Oust., II., p. 48. 

 .■E^ialitis mongolicus (Pall.), Swinhoe, Ibis, 1S70, p. 360. 

 JOc'hthodromus mongolus, Sharp, Cat. B. Brit. Mus., XXIV., p. 223 ; Hall, Key to B. Aust., 1899, 



p. 82. 



This bird was very scarce on Guam during the months of my 

 stay (May and August). Only one specimen was ,seeu, which 

 proved to be an adult female. No. 9526. The general color above 



