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CHAKADKIUS. 



CHARADRIUS GEOFFROYI. 



GREATER SAND-PLOVER. 



Diagnosis. 



Synonymy. 



Literature. 



Specific 

 characters. 



Charadrius, subgen. AZgialophili majores, maxillse arcu longiore (circa 13 millim.) : rostro recto : 

 pedibus nigris, parvis (digit, med. cum ungue circa 22 millim.). 



Variations. i T j s no t known that this species is subject to any geographical variations. 



Charadrius geoffroyi, Wagler, Syst. Av. p. 61 (1827). 



Charadrius leschenaulti, Lesson, Man. d'Orn. ii. p. 322 (1828). 



Charadrius columbinus, Hemprich u. Ehrenberg, fide Wagler, Isis, 1829, p. 650. 



Charadrius griseus, Lesson, Traite d'Orn. p. 554 (1831). 



Charadrius rufinus, Blyth, Ann. fy Mag. Nat. Hist. xii. p. 169 (1843) . 



Hiaticula geoffroyi {Wagl.), Riippell, Tog. N.O.-Afr. p. 118 (1845). 



Hiaticula columbina {Wagl.), Lichtenstein, Nom,. Av. p. 94 (1854). 



Cirrepidesmus geoffroyi {Wagl.), Bonap. Compt. Rend, xliii. p. 417 (1856). 



iEgialites geoffroyi {Wagl.), Heuglin, Syst. Uebers. Tog. N.O.-Afr. p. 56 (1856). 



iEgialites leschenaulti (Less.), Swinhoe, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1863, p. 309. 



Eudromias geoffroyi {Wagl.), Meyer, Journ. Orn. 1873, p. 405. 



Eudromias crassirostris, Severtzow, Turkest. Jevotnie, p. 146 (1873). 



Plates, — Harting, Ibis, 1870, pi. xi. ; Dresser, Birds of Europe, vii. pi. 521. 

 Habits. — Legge, Birds of Ceylon, p. 939. 

 Eggs. — Hereinafter mentioned. 



The Greater Sand-Plover is one of the larger allies of the Kentish Plover (C. cantiatius), 

 which belongs to the group of JEgialophili majores. Its long straight thick bill, varying in 



