CHAEADEIUS. I33 



CHARADRIUS PLACIDUS. 



HODGSON' 8 RINGED PLOVER. 



Charadrius, subgea. Hiaticulm minores, pectore non nisi fascia un^ obscure ornato : rectricibus Diagnosis, 

 lateralibus quam rectrices mediae valde brevioribus (circa 13 millim.). 



No local races of this species are known. Variations. 



Charadrius placidus. Gray, Cat. Mamm. S^c. Nepal^c. Hodgson, p. 70 (1863). Synonymy. 



Charadrius longipes^ David, Bull. Nouvelles Archives, 1867, p. 38. 

 ^Egialitis hartingi, Swinhoe, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1870, p. 136. 

 Endromias tenuirostris, Hume, Stray Feathers, 1872, p. 17. 

 ^gialites placidus {Gray), Swinhoe, Ibis, 1874, p. 162. 



Plates. — Swinhoe, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1870, pi. xii. Literature. 



Habits.— Swinhoe, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1870, p. 136. 

 Eggs. — Unknown. 



Hodgson's Ringed Plover has a black subterminal band across the four outer tail- Specific 

 feathers on each side, and the outer feathers are half an inch shorter than the central ones. 

 It has no white on the outer webs of the primaries, but the forehead and the whole of the 

 underparts {except a single dark band across the breast) are white. 



