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CHAEADKITJS. 



CHAR ADR I US NIGRIFRONS 



BLACK-FRONTED PLOVER. 



Diagnosis. Charadrius scapularibus rufis. 



Synonymy. 



Literature. 



Specific 

 characters. 



Variations. No geographical races of this species are known. 



Charadrius melanops, Vieillot, N. Diet. d'Hist. Nat. xxvii. p. 139 (1818). 



Charadrius nigrifrons, Cuvier, fide Temm. PL Col. no. 47. fig. 1 (1823). 



iEgialitis nigrifrons (Temm.), Boie, Isis, 1826, p. 978. 



Charadrius russatus, Jerdon, Madras Journ. 1840, p. 213. 



Hiaticula nigrifrons (Temm.), Gray, List Birds Brit. Mus. iii. p. 71 (1844). 



Plates. — Temminck, PI. Col. no. 47 ; Gould, Syn. Birds Austr. pi. 32. fig. 1 ; Gould, Birds 



Austr. vi. pi. 20. 

 Habits. — Gould, Handb. Birds of Australia, ii. p. 232. 

 Eggs.— Harting, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1874, pi. lx. fig. 9. 



The Black -fronted Plover may be recognized by its chestnut-red scapulars. In young 

 in first plumage the chestnut is paler, and is distributed over the wing-coverts as well as the 

 scapulars. 



