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Charadrius torquatus Leacu, Syst. Cat. Mam., etc., Brit. Mus., 1816, 28 (ex Plu- 
vialis torquatus Brisson, Orn., v, 1760, 63, pl. 5, fig. 2). ‘ 
Hiaticula torquata Gray, List Birds Brit. Mus., iii, 1844, 68. 
Charadrius morinellus (not of Linneus) Krmuav, Reise Finm., 1827-28, 163 (see 
Journ. fiir Orn., 1865, 270). 
Aegialitis septentrionalis Bream, Vog. Deutschl., 1831, 548 (Iceland; Germany). 
Hiaticula annulata Gray, List Gen. Birds, 1840, 65 (new name for Charadrius 
hiaticula Linneeus). : 
Aegialites auritus Heucuin, Syst. Ueb. Vog. N. O. Afrika, 1856, 56 (nomen nudum). 
[Charadrius] major ‘‘ Tristram,” Gray, Hand-list, iii, 1871, 15 (Palestine; nomen 
nudum!). 
Charadrius hiaticula major SrEBoHM, Geog. Distr. Charadr., 1887, pp. xvi, 126. 
Charadrius hiaticola major Lowe, Ibis, July, 1914, 395-403 (crit.). 
Afgialitis] hiaticola. major Lows, Ibis, July, 1914, 396, in text. 
Zigialitis hiaticola tundre Lowe, Bull. Brit. Orn. Club, xxxvi, no. ccx, Dec. 3, 
1915, 7 (Valley of Yenesei, e. Siberia; coll. Brit. Mus.). 2 
CHARADRIUS DUBIUS Scopoli. 
LITTLE RING PLOVER. 
Adult male in swmmer.—Loral, subocular and auricular regions, 
anterior portion of forehead and fore part of crown black, all these 
areas confluent; a white band across forehead (from eye to eye) and a 
narrower one (sometimes tinged with grayish) crossing crown, imme- 
diately behind the black vertical patch, and continued laterally above 
eyes and auriculars to sides of occiput; rest of upper parts grayish 
brown (between drab and light hair brown), lighter on rump and 
median upper tail-coverts, the lateral upper tail-coverts and sides of 
rump white; primaries dusky, the outermost with shaft white; 
secondaries margined terminally with white; tail with middle rectrices 
grayish brown, the other rectrices becoming paler toward the outer- 
most, which is white with blackish subterminal spot on inner web, 
the next with outer web white, the other rectrices (except middle 
pair) dusky subterminally and white at tips; malar and subauricular 
regions, chin and throat, immaculate white, confluent with a broad 
white nuchal collar; lower neck encircled by a broad collar of black, 
‘broader laterally, where invading sides of chest; rest of under parts, 
including axillars and under wing-coverts, immaculate white; bill 
black, the base of mandible sometimes yellowish; iris dark brown; 
naked eye-ring yellow (in life) ; legs and feet flesh color (in life). 
Adult female in summer.—Similar to the adult male and perhaps 
not always distinguishable, but usually with black head-markings 
dusky grayish brown or dull blackish, especially those on sides of 
head, the black collar round lower neck sometimes dusky grayish 
brown laterally. 
Winter plumage.—Black of head-markings and collar round lower 
neck replaced by grayish brown, and white frontal area less sharply 
defined; otherwise ‘as in summer. 
Young.—Similar to the winter plumage but general tone of plumage 
more or less buffy, the brown of upper parts broken by buffy margins 
and dusky submargins to the feathers. 
