Birds of Celebes: Charadriidae. 741 



GENUS AEGIALITIS Boie. 



Structurally like Charadrim, but the upper surface fairly uniform brown in 

 coloration, not spangled, and the size generally smaller. The scaling of the 

 tarsus is variable, being sometimes reticulate and sometimes scutellate anteriorly, 

 and this in species which are undoubtedly closely allied (e. g. A. geqffroyi and 

 A. mongola). Generally migratory; almost cosmopolitan. 



^318. AEGIALITIS VEREDA (J. Gd.). 



Oriental Dotterel. 



a. Charadrius veredus (1) Gould, P. Z. S. 1848, 38; (11) id., B. Austr. 1848, VI, pi. 14; 



(3) Seebohm, Ibis 1882, 425; (4) id., Distr. Charadr. 1887, 115; (5) id., B.Japan 

 1890, 311, note; (6) Styan, Ibis 1891, 503. 



b. Cirrepidesmus asiaticus (1) Gould (nee Pall.), Handb. B. Austr. 1865, EC, 229. 



c. Charadrius asiaticus (1) Schl., Mus. P.-B., Cursores, 1865, 38, pt.; (2) Rosenb., Malay. 



Ai-chip. 1S78, 277. 



d. Eudromias veredus (I) Harting, Ibis 1870, 209, pi. VI; (2) Wald., Tr. Z. S. 1872, VIH, 



88; (3) Swinb., Ibis 1873, 365; (4) Ball, Str. F. 1873,1, 83; (5) Hume, ib. 1874, 

 n, 288; (6) Salvad., Cat. Ucc. Borneo 1874, 315; (7) Prjev., Eowl. Orn. Misc. 1877, 

 n, 434; (8) Rams., Tab. List 1888, 19; (9) Tristr., Cat. Coll. B. 1889, 21. 

 Aegialitis vereda (or veredus), (1) Swinb., P. Z. S. 1870, 141 ; (U) David & Oust., Ois. Chine 

 1S77, 425, pi. 120; (3) Hume, Str. F. 1878, VU, 438; (4) id., ib. 1879, VHI, 200; 

 (5) Salvad., Orn. Pap. 1882, IH, 296; (6) W. Bias., Z. ges. Orn. 1886, 143; (7) id.. 

 Ibis 1888, 374; (8) id., Ornis 1888, 319; (9) Whitehead, Ibis 1890, 58; (10) Salvad., 

 Orn. Pap. Agg. 1891, 200; (11) De La Toucbe, Ibis 1892, 496. 



e. Ochthodromus veredus (1) Sharpe, Cat. B. 1896, XXIV, 232, 741. 

 "Manna", Talaut Islands, Nat. Coll. 



For further synonymy and references of. Salvadori 5; Sharpe e 1. 



Figures and descriptions, Gould a 7J (juv.); Harting d I\ David & Oust. II; Seebohm 

 « 4 (woodcut); Salvadori 5; Sharpe el. 



Adult male in summer. Head and neck pure white, with a small patch of greyish brown 

 on the nape; remaining upper parts clear earthy brown; breast tawny rufous 

 (roux fauve) bounded below by a black band; remaining under-parts pure white; 

 remiges brown; centre tail-feathers earthy brown, the lateral ones similar, 

 tipped with white, the outermost ones pure white; bis brown; wing 170 mm; tail 

 60; tarsus 46; middle toe 20; bill from forehead 21 (David & Oustalet II: China). 

 Swinhoe describes the soft parts thus: bill deep obve-brown, blacker on the 

 terminal portion; eyelids greyish black; legs light brownish flesh-colour; feet 

 washed with grey, blackish on joints, claws black. 



Young. "Crown, back and upper portion of the wings greyish brown, each feather 

 margined with buff; forehead, eyebrows, chin, sides of face and neck buff, 

 this colour extending in the form of a collar round the neck; the pectoi'al band not 

 well defined, but a cloudy patch of pale buffy brown, extending across the breast, 

 becomes gradually paler above and below as it approaches the chin and vent; pri- 

 maries and axillaries as in the adult [axillaries smoke-grey]; secondaries broadly 

 edged with buff" (Harting d I). 



Adult in winter plumage. It lias not yet been discriminated from the young. Two specimens 



