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CHAEADEIUS. 



* s * Subgeneric group JEgialopldli majores. 

 f Old- World Species. 



CHARADRIUS ASIATICUS. 



CASPIAN SAND-PLOVER. 



Diagnosis. Charadrius, subgen. AZgialophili majores, pedibus pallidis : loris albis. 



Synonymy. 



Literature. 



Specific 

 characters. 



Variations. No local races of this species are known. 



Charadrius asiaticus, Pallas, Reise Russ. Reichs, ii. p. 715 (1773). 

 Charadrius easpius, Pallas, Zoogr. Rosso-Asiat. ii. p. 136 (1826). 

 Charadrius jugularis, Wagler, Syst. Av. p. 69 (1827). 



Eudromias asiaticus (Pall.), Keyserling u. Blasius, JVirb. Eur. p. lxx (1840). 

 Charadrius damarensis, Strickland, Contrib. Om. 1852, p. 158. 

 Morinellus caspius (Pall), Bonap. Compt. Rend, xliii. p. 417 (1856). 

 Morinellus asiaticus (Pall.), Degland §■ Gerbe, Om. Eur. ii. p. 132 (1867). 



Plates. — Harting, Ibis, 1870, pi. v. (legs wrongly coloured) ; Dresser, Birds of Europe, rii. 



pi. 522. 

 Habits.- — Dresser, Birds of Europe, vii. p. 479. 

 Eggs. — Middeudorff, Sib. Reise, ii. pi. xix. fig. 4. 



The Caspian Sand-Plover is one of the larger species of the subgenus JEgialopfalus, 

 the wing from the carpal joint varying from. 6'1 to 5 '4 inch. It maybe distinguished from 

 its allies by its pure white lores and pale legs and feet. It is also exceptional in never 

 having any black marks on the head or neck, even in most adult plumage. 





