Descriptive List of the Common Birds 
usually so common as the last. It is said not to 
occur in Upper Sind or the Western Punjab. 
It certainly does not occur in the neighbour- 
hood of Lahore. 
The Plovers, 185 and 186 
The ringed plovers are small “ snippets ” 
which haunt the seashore and the sandbanks of 
rivers. They go about in small flocks. Num- 
bers of them are to be seen on the muddy edges 
of the Coum at Madras, but they have to be 
looked for, since from a little distance they 
assimilate closely to the hue of the mudbanks 
on which they disport themselves. ‘They are 
not much bigger than sparrows, but are pretty 
little birds. Two species are common. 
185. Agialitis alexandrina: ‘The Kentish 
Plover. (F. 1446), (J. 848), (I.) 
Upper parts brown, lower parts white. The 
brown of the upper parts is broken by a white 
forehead, eyebrow, and collar. The under 
surface of the wing is white, so that as a flock 
of this species or the next two species fly they 
look now brown, now white, according as the 
brown or white surface of the wing is pre- 
sented to the observer. 
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