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Birds of Celebes: Charadriidae. 



Aegialitis curonica (or curonicus) (1) Keys. & Bias., Wirbelth. Eur. 1840,71; ('ZZ) Dresser, 

 B. Europe VH, 491, pi. 524 (1876); (3) Prjev., Eowl. Orn. Msc. 1877, n, 435; 

 (4) Hume & Davis., Str. F. 1878, VI, 456, 521; fo) Legge, B. Ceylon 1880, 

 952; (6) Bolau, J. f. 0. 1880, 131; (7) Salvad., Orn. Pap. 1882, in, 304; (Sj 

 Baircl, Brew. & Ridgw., Water B. N. Am. 1884, I, 159; (9) Dedit., J. f. O. 1886, 

 527; (10) Eadde & Walter, Ornis 1889, 107; (11) M. &Wg., Abli. Mus. Dresd. 

 1895, Nr. 8, p. 17; (12) iid., ib. 1896, Nr. 1, p. 6. 



y. Aegialitis dubia (1) Wald., Tr. Z. S. 1872, VIH, 89; (2) David & Oust., Ois. Chine 

 J877, 429; (3) Hume, Str. F. 1878, VH, 227; (4) id., ib. 1879, YIH, 69; (4'''') 

 AVardl. Rams., Tweedd. Orn. Works 1881, 659, Nr. 309; foj Kelbam, Ibis 1882, 

 10; (6) Gates, B. Brit. Burmah 1883, H, 370; (7) Sharpe, Ibis 18S8, 203; (8) 

 W. Bias., Ornis 1888, 319; (VIW) Meyer, Vogelskel. 1886," I, pi. CVHI; (9) 

 Everett, J. Str. Br. R. A. S. 1889, 205; ^io; "Whitebd., Ibis 1890, 58; (11) Sh., 

 t. c. 142, 284; (12) Oates, ed. Hume's Nests and Eggs 1890, HI, 338; (13) Steere, 

 List Coll. B. &M. Pbilipp. 1890, 25; (14) Bns. & Worces., B. Menage Exp. 1894, 

 31; (15) Everett, Ibis 1895, 34; (16) Grant, t. c. 266, 472; (17) Sharpe, Cat. 

 B. 1896, XXIV, 263, 744; (18) Hart, Nov. Zool. 1896, 590. 



h. Charadrius philippinensis (1) Rosenb., Zool. Garten 1881, 167. 



i. ? Aegialitis peroni (1) Vorderm., N. T. Ned. Ind. 1892, LI, 409. 



For further synonymy cf. Dresser II\ Seebohm d 5; Sharpe g 17. 



Figures and descriptions. Naumann d 11] Gould d III, f II; Dresser 77; Meyer 5^ F777'"» 

 (skel.); Seebohm do (woodcut); Vorderman c 4; Taczan. f 3; Legge 5; Baird, 

 Brew. & Ridgw. S; Oates g 6; Sharpe g 17. 



Adult in winter. Above drab-brown, with paler edgings to the feathers, forehead paHng into 

 buff-white; lores blacldsh, this colour jiassing under the eye on to the ear-coverts; 

 cheeks, chin, throat and nuchal collar white, bounded below by a blackish 

 collar round neck, tinged with pale brown on jugidimi; remaining under-parts 

 white; primary coverts and outer primaries blackish, the first with the shaft 

 white, the inner remiges browner, shghtly tipped with white; middle tail-feathers 

 di-ab, the terminal 20 mm blackish , all the lateral tail-feathers broadly tipped with 

 white, increasing towards the outermost, which are white with a cross-mark of black 

 on the inner web; "iris dai'k brown; bill black, yellow in some at the base of the 

 under mandible; eyelid yellowish; legs and feet dusky yellow; joints and tips of toes 

 greenish brown": Legge 5 (rf, Tondano, 17. Nov. 1894: P. &F. Sarasin). 



Young in first plumage. Very hke the adult described; the blacldsh wanting on the eai- 

 coverts, less pronounced on the lores; the dark collar smaller, pale brown on the 

 jugulum, dusky on sides thereof; the feathers of the upper parts more conspicuously 

 margined with pale brown ((^f, Kema, 26. Oct. 93: P. &F. Sarasin). 



Adult in breeding plumage. Has the collar jet-black, passing narrowly across the liind- 

 neck, broadly across the jugulum and sides of breast ; a patch of black covering lores, 

 subocular region (except for a narrow white mark just below the eyehd) and ear- 

 coverts; a broad bar of black across crown from eye to eye; forehead white, except 

 just at base of bill [(f ad., Dresden: Schwarze — Nr. 14150). 



' Bill from 

 foreiiead 



measurements. 





a. (Sarasin Coll.) cf j^^., Kema, 26. Oct. 93 



b. (Sarasin Coll.) rf Kema, 20. Oct. 93 . . 



c. (Sarasin Coll.) rf Tondano, 17. Sept. 94 . 



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