436 BIRDS OCCURRING IN INDIA NOT DESCRIBED 



mencing at the carpal joint, including the alula, eight of the 

 outer secondary quills and their coverts; the primary quill- 

 and their coverts are white at the base, chocolate brown mixes 

 with grey towards the end, with the tip white ; that colour bed 

 coming gradually more extended on the inner primaries, of which 

 the tenth has only a narrow band of brown near the end ; the 

 tail-feathers are also white at the base and tip, in the rest of 

 their extent pale yellow, undulated with black, and having three 

 distinct transverse bands of the latter colour, the lateral feathers 

 gradually becoming more white, and losing one of the black 

 bands. 



Length to end of tail, 1 8 inches ; bill along the ridge, 1 ; along 

 the edge of lower mandible, 1*33 ; wing from flexure, 10 ; tail, 

 425 ; bare part of tibia, 1 ; tarsus, 2*66. 



Female. — The female, which is about the same size, differs in 

 having none of the blue or black so conspicuous on the neck of 

 the male ; the upper part of the head, its sides, and the neck 

 all round, are pale reddish yellow, variegated with dark brown, 

 each feather having a broad median longitudinal band and 

 several transverse bars ; the throat is yellowish white ; the 

 upper parts are variegated as in the male, but with the markings 

 larger, and many of the feathers having a large black patch in 

 the middle, towards the end ; the wings and tail as in the male, 

 but with the white less extended and barred with black ; the 

 lower parts are yellowish white, the feathers of the breast and 

 sides with transverse black lines ; the lower tail-coverts with the 

 shafts black, and some bars of the same colour. 



Male in Winter. — At the end of autumn the black, white, 

 and grey feathers on the head and neck are changed for others, 

 variegated with yellow and black, so that in winter the male 

 resembles the female, but with the markings finer. — Macgillivray, 

 Vol. IV., 36. 



845 Ms.— -Charadrius pluvialis, Lin. 



This species is closely allied to our Indian Golden Plover, 

 and to the Grey Plover, Squatarola helvetica. All three go 

 through much the same seasonal changes of plumage, but the 

 Grey Plover has always Mack axillaries ; pluvialis has always 

 white axillaries, and our Indian fulvus has always smoke grey 

 axillaries. 



Besides this, the Grey Plover has a much larger bill, and has 

 a rudimentary hind toe and claw, which is wanting in both the 

 others. 



