WHITE-TAILED PLOVEB. 165 



GRALLATOEES. 



Famihj CHARADRIIBy^. (Bonaparte.) 



Genus Ch^tusia. f Bonaparte.) 



WHITE-TAILED PLOVER. 



Chcetusia leucura. 



"LicHTENSTEiN." Eversman; Rcisc Bokh., 



p. 137. (1823.) 

 Savigny; Descrip. de I'Egypte, t. 6, fig. 2. 



(1825.) 

 Audouin; op. cit. 

 Wright; Ibis, 1865, pi. 10. Gray; Hand 



List, No. 9956. 

 Eversman; Bull. Mosc, xxvi., p. 2, p. 497. 

 Lesson; Traite d'Orn., p. 542, (1831.) 



Specific Characters. — Head, neck, breast, and upper portions of the plumage 

 vinous grey. Primaries black; secondaries white. Chin and tail white. 

 Legs and feet yellow. Eye large; iris hazel; eyelids red. Length eleven 

 inches; wing from carpus to tip seven inches. Tarsus three inches; middle 

 toe one inch and three tenths. Bill one inch and three tenths. Tail three 

 inches and two tenths. 



This bird was first noticed in Europe at ]Montpellier, in the soutli 

 of France, (see Crespon, "Eaune Meridionale," (1844,) and Jaubert, 

 "Rich. Orn. Midi France," p. 452,) and is known to breed in South 

 Russia, in the neighbourhood of Sarej)ta (see '^ Revue et Mag. de 

 Zoologie," third series, 1874, p. 235.) It is therefore a welcome addition 

 to our list. 



Mr. Charles A.Wright, C.M.Z.S., in the "Ibis" for 1865, p. 459, 

 in his second Appendix to the Birds of Malta and Gozo, has the 

 following observations: — "On the 18th. of October, 1SG4, in otie of my 



Chcetusia leucura, 



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flavipes. 



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villotaei, 



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flavipes. 



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aralensis. 



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grallarius, 



