CHAEADEIUS. 



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Masai-Land (Journ. Orn. 1884, p. 178), which appear to be the same species as examples in 

 the British Museum from Lake Nyassa and Tete. Examples from West Africa from the 

 Gold Coast are very similar. Examples from the Cape Colony, where it is found both on 

 the coast and on " any extensive inland pieces of water," are somewhat different ; they are 

 rather larger in size, paler in colour, less suffused with rusty red, both on the upper and 

 under parts, have darker and thicker legs, and have the nuchal collar white instead of rusty, 

 which makes it much more conspicuous, and have the last three 1 secondaries (next the 

 tertials) pure white. Examples from Angola and the coast of Damara-Land on the one 

 side, and from the coast of Natal and Madagascar on the other, are, however, so com- 

 pletely intermediate that under no circumstances can the tropical form be regarded as 

 more than subspecifically distinct. 



It is difficult to say when this species breeds ; Andersson says April in Damara-Land ; 

 Layard says November at the Cape. I have examples in breeding-dress from the Gold 

 Coast dated February and April ; from Natal in January and April ; and from Madagascar 

 in October ; and in the British Museum are examples in breeding-dress from the Cape 

 Colony dated 4th April and 22nd June. 



Breeding- 

 season. 



CHARADRIUS MARGINATUS TENELLUS. 



TROPICAL WHITE-BREASTED PLOVER. 



Charadrius marginatus magnitudine minore : colore pallidiore, vix fulvo lavato : secundariis Diagnosis. 

 interioribus haud omnino albis. 



This race appears completely to intergrade with the typical form. 



Variations. 



1 The ninth, tenth, and eleventh. 



r2 



