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Genus -ffiGIALITIS. 



317. ^GIALITIS CANTIANtS. 



^gialophilus cantianus, Scully, Str. F. iv. p. 185 (1876). 



^gialitis cantianus, Severtz. Turkest. Jevotn. p. 69 (1873) ; Blanf. East. Persia, ii. p. 279 (1876) ; 

 Dresser, Ibis, 1876, p. 328 ; Prjev. in Rowley's Orn. Misc. ii. p. 435 (1877) ; Bidd. Ibis, 1881, p. 94. 

 No. 1810. Karghalik, May 29, 1874. 



^ Dr. Scully's note is as follows :—'' The Kentish Eing-Plover is a seasonal visitant to the 

 plains of Eastern Turkestan, arriving about the end of March, and disappearing entirely in 

 winter. It frequents stony ground and ejOlorescent wastes, always in the neighbourhood of 

 shallow pools of water. When disturbed it appears to take only short flights, but runs very 

 nimbly over the ground. The Turki name given to this species is ' Chullok ; ' it is also 

 sometimes called ' Sai ^am^^#r^A^,'— Yamghurchi being the exact Turki equivalent of 

 'pluviaUs,' and Sai meaning a stony steppe.'' 



318. ^Egialitis dubia. 



jEgialitis dubia (Scop.) ; Sbarpe, Trans. Linn. Soc. (2) Zool. v. pt. 3, p. 89 (1889). 

 yEgialitis mmor, Severtz. Turkest, Jevotn. p. 69 (1873). 



JEgialitis fluviatilis, Scully, Str. F. iv. p. 185 (1876) ; Blanf. East. Persia, ii. p. 279 (1876). 

 ^gialitis pMlippensis, Bidd. Ibis, 1881, p. 94. 



JEgialitis curonica (Gm.) ; Dresser, Ibis, 1876, p. 328; Prjev. in Bowley^s Orn. Misc. ii. p. 435 (1877) ; 

 Scully, Ibis, 1881, p. 587 ; id. J. A. S. Beng. Ivi. p. 87 (1887). 



No. 1709. Yarkand, May 22, 1874. 



Dr. Scully writes : — '^ This species, like the last, is, I believe, only a seasonal visitant to 

 the plains ; however, I cannot quite make out how the young bird I got at Kashghar in 

 December came to be there at that time. This Plover arrives towards the end of March, and 

 migrates about September. It was common in the neighbourhood of Yarkand in summer, 

 and wa^ found in the Karakash Valley at an elevation of about 12,000 feet towards the end 

 of August. It was usually seen in small flocks, feeding on insects in the vicinity of swampy 

 ground. The bird breeds in May, laying, I was informed, three or four eggs on tlie bare 

 ground at some distance from water. This species is called by the Yarkandis ' Shaiarak 

 Ghullohy 



319. JEgialitis mongolicus. 



JEgialitis mongolicus (Pall.) ; Hume & Henders. Lahore to Yark. p. 285 (1873) ; Blanf. East. Persia, ii. 



p. 279 (1876). 

 Eudromias mongolicus, Severtz. Turkest. Jevotn. p. 69 (1873) ; Dresser, Ibis, 1876, p. 327. 



No. 1609, $ . Sarikol, May 9, 1874.— Length 7*9 inches, wing 5*32, tail 2-2, tarsus 1*35. 



Iris brown ; bill black ; feet ashy black, more silvery ashy on the tarsi than on the toes. 



Ovary contained one large and several smaller eggs. Would have laid in about a 



week. 

 No. 1610, 6 . — Length 7*6 inches, wing 5*15, tail 2*1, tarsus 1*35. Not common ; passing 



through. 

 Nos. 1603, 1648, 1651. Sarikol, May 9 and 10, 1874. 



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