MONGOLIAN EINGED PLOVER. 179 



GRALLATORES. 



Familt/ CHARADRIID^. (Bojiaparte.) 



Genus ^gtalitis. 



MONGOLIAN KINGED PLOVER. 



Mgialitis mongolicus. 



Charad?-ius mongolus, Pallas; Reise, iii., p. 700, 1776. 



" mongolicus, Pallas; Zoogr. Ross. As., ii., p. 136, 181 1. 



" 7'uficollis, CuviER ; Mus. Paris. 



*' caiiiianus, Horsfield ; Trans. Linn. Soc, xiii., 



p. 187, 1820. 



^gialitis pyrrhothorax, Keys, et Blas.; Wirb. Eur., p. 70, 1840. 



" mongolicus, Harting ; Ibis, 1870, p. 384. 



Pluvier a collier roux. Of the French. 



Kragen-Regenpfeifer, Of the Germans. 



Specific Characters. — Above a grey brown, with the forehead maroon, more 

 or less dark ; across the breast a broad belt of red ; the last tail feather 

 but one grey on the outside, white on the inner web, and terminated by 

 a large brown spot. Length seven inches. Bill seven tenths. Wing from 

 carpus five inches. Tarsus one inch and three tenths. 



This Plover, of whicli Mr. Harting has given a very complete 

 account in the "Ibis," (1870, p.p. 384-392,) lias a very wide range, 

 extending over Mongolia, Siberia, Amurlaud, India, China, Java, 

 Malay Archipelago, and Australia. Canon Tristram met with it in 

 Palestine, at tlie mouth of the Kishon; and Von Heuglin has 

 recorded it from Kordofan, in the Dauakil Country. It was intro- 

 duced into the European list by Temminck, in consequence of a 

 specimen having been shot in the neighbourhood of St. Petersburg, 

 and was first figured by Gould in his "Birds of Europe." I think. 



