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ASIATIC DOTTEREL. 



GRALLATORES. 



Fa?mly CHARADRIIDyE. f Bonaparte.] 



Genus Eudromias. (Boie.) 



Generic Characters. — Bill shorter than the head, slender, compressed and 

 soft at the base, dilated and hardened at the extremity, which is slightly 

 decurved. Nasal furrow extending for two thirds of the length ; nostrils 

 basal and linear. Wings long and pointed, the first primary the longest. 

 Tail long and rounded, or with the two central rectrices elongated. Tarsus 

 long and slender, scutellated (not reticulated, as in Charadrius). Dorsal 

 plumage plain, or more or less uniformly coloured. A pectoral or abdominal 

 band of a red or black colour, sometimes both. 



ASIATIC DOTTEREL, 



Eudromias asiaticus. 



Eudro7nias asiaticus, Keys, et Blas. ; Wirbelth. E., p. 268. 



G. R. Gray; List B. Mus., 1844. 

 " " Heuglin; Syst. Uebers. Vog. N. O. Afr., 



p. 57, 1856. 

 " " Harting; Ibis, 1870, p. 202, pi. v. 



Charadrius asiaticus et caspius, Pallas ; Reise et Zoogr. R. A. 

 " " " Latham. Gmelin. Schlegel. 



Wagler ; Syst. Avium, fol. 5, p. 5, No. 39. 

 Demidoff ; Voyage Ross. Merid. iii., p. 233. 

 Strickland; Contrib. Orn., 1851. 

 "Brehm." Bonaparte; ut infra. 

 Bonaparte; Comxp. Rend., 1856, p. 417. 

 Gould; Handb. B. Australia, ii., p. 229, 



1865. 

 Degland and Gerbe ; Orn. Eur., ii., 

 p. 132, 1867. 



" Jugularis, 

 it it 



" damarensis, 

 gigas, 

 Morinellus caspius, 

 Cirripedesmus asiaticus, 



Morinellus caspius, 



