iEGIALITIS PECTJAEIA. 



(KITTLITZ'S PLOVER.) 



Charadrius varius, Vieill. Nouv. Diet, xxvii. p. 143 (1818, nee Linn.). 



Charadrius pecuarius, Temm. PL Col. 183, livr. 31 (1823). 



" Charadrius pastor, Cuv.," Less. Man. d'Orn. ii. p. 319 (1828). 



Charadrius isabellinus, v. Miiller, Naumannia, 1851, pt. iv. p. 29. 



Hiaticula pecuaria (Temm.), Riipp. Syst. Uebers. Vog. N.O.-Afr. p. 118 (1845). 



JEgialitis kittlitzi, Eeichenb. Synops. Av. ii. tab. cv. fig. 1063 (1851). 



Hiaticula pectoralis, Licht. Nomencl. Av. p. 94 (1854). 



Hiaticula frontalis, id. ut supra (1854). 



Leucopolius pecuarius (Temm.), Bp. Compt. Rend, xliii. p. 417 (1856). 



1. Leucopolius kittlitzi (Reichenb.), Bp. ut supra, (1856). 



JEgialitis pecuaria (Temm.), Brehm, Vogelfang, p. 283 (1855). 



JEgialites pecuarius (Temm.), Heuglin, Syst. Uebers. Vog. N.O.-Afr. p. 56 (1856). 



jEgialites longipes, Heuglin, ut supra (1856). 



JEgialites kittlitzi (Reichenb.), Newton, Ibis, 1867, p. 251, footnote. 



Charadrius sennaarensis, Pr. Wiirt. Icon, inedit. nos. 69, 70, fide Heuglin, J. f. 0. 1867, p. 303, 



Charadrius trochylos, id. ut supra. 



JEgialites varius (Vieill.), Harting, Ibis, 1873, p. 262, pi. viii. 



Kanhiapraia, in Benguela ; Vikiviky, Kibordnto, Malagasy. 



Figurce notabiles. 

 Temminck, ut supra; Harting, Ibis, 1873, pi. viii. 



Ad. ptil. (est. fronte et linea per oculum usque ad nucham clucta albis : lined, angusta frontali, loris, cum finest 

 infrk oculum ad collum posticum ducti nigris : pileo et corpore supra sordide fuscis : remigibus nigro- 

 fuscis, primariis intimis in pogonio externo versus basin albo notatis : secundariis albo apicatis : 

 tectricibus alarum minoribus nigro-fuscis : rectricibus mediis dorso concoloribus, proximis cinereo- 

 albis, duabus extimis toto albis : gutture et pectore ochrascenti-ferrugineis, mento, gula et corpore 

 reliquo subtus, cum axillaribus et subalaribus, albis : rostro et pedibus nigricantibus : iride fusca. 



Ad. ptil. Mem. corpore subtus magis albido, capite nee nigro notato et nucha, ferrugineo-fusca, : fronte, capitis 

 lateribus et linea, infra oculari cervino lavatis : pectore superiore fusco-cinereo lavato. 



Adult Female (Nubia, April) . Forehead and a broad line passing through the eye to the nape white ; a narrow 

 line on the fore part of the crown from eye to eye black ; rest of the crown and upper parts generally 

 dusky brown ; quills blackish brown, the innermost primaries with a patch of white on the basal part 

 of the outer web ; secondaries margined with white at the tips ; lesser wing-coverts blackish brown ; 

 median tail-feathers dusky brown, the remainder greyish white, except the outermost, which are pure 



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