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jEGIALITIS geoffboyl 



(GREATER SAND-PLOVER.) 



Charadrius asiaticus, Horsf. Trans. Linn. Soc. xiii. p. 187 (1820, nee Pall.). 



Charadrius geoffroyi, Wagl. Syst. Av. fol. 4, p. 13. no. 19 (1827). 



Charadrius leschenaultii, Less. Man. d'Orn. ii. p. 322 (1828). 



"Charadrius columbinus, Hempr. & Ehr. in Mus. Berol.," Wagl. Isis, 1829, p. 650. 



Charadrius griseus, Less. Traite d'Orn. p. 544 (1831, nee Lath.). 



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



Hiaticula geoffroyi (Wagl.), Eiipp. Syst. Uebers. p. 118 (1845). 



Charadrius fuscus, Cuvier, fide Pucheran, Eev. Zool. 1851, p. 282. 



Hiaticula columbina (Wagl.), Licht. Nomencl. Av. p. 94 (1854). 



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



Mgialites geoffroyi (Wagl.), Heugl. Syst. Uebers. Vog. N.O.-Afr. p. 56 (1856). 



JEgialites leschenaulti (Less.), Swinh. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1863, p. 309. 



Ochthodromus columboides, Reichenb., fide Harting, Ibis, 1870, p. 379. 



Figurw notabiles. 



Savigny, Ois. de l'Egypte, pi. 14. fig. 1; Kittl. Kupfert. 34. fig. 2; Harting, Ibis, 1870, 

 pi. xi. 



8 ad. ptil. (Est. fronte alba, pileo et nucha sordide rufescentibus, stria frontali nigra : corpore supra sordide 

 arenaceo-fusco : rectricibus externis albis, reliquis fusco-cinereis albo apicatis : remigibus nigricantibus, 

 rhachibus albis, primariis intimis in pogonio externo fere ad apicem albis, secundariis albo marginatis : 

 stria, nigra, a rostro per oculum ducta, : pectore pallide ferrugineo : gula, gutture et corpore reliquo subtiis 

 cum axillaribus et subalaribus albis : rostro nigricante : iride fusca : pedibus plumbeo-cinereis. 



2 ad. ptil. (Est. mari similis, sed sordidior : capite haud nigro notato, sed lateraliter fusco-cinereo : pectore 

 ferrugineo, sed pallidiore. 



Ad. ptil. Mem. pileo, nucha et corpore supra fusco-cinereis : alis et cauda, sicut in ptilosi sestivali picturatis : 

 capitis lateribus pallide fusco-cinereis : fronte, loris, gula et corpore subtiis albis : pectore pallide 

 rufescente cervino lavato. 



Adult Male in summer (Syria, 30th April). Forehead white; a black band passing over the fore part of the 

 crown ; rest of the crown and nape brown and pale rusty reddish ; upper parts generally dull sandy 

 brown, marked here and there with pale rufous or rusty orange on the back, outer rectrices white, the 

 remainder ashy brownish grey, tipped narrowly with white ; quills blackish, the shafts white, some of 

 the inner primaries white on the outer web nearly to the tip ; the short secondaries narrowly margined 

 with white ; a broad black streak passes from the base of the bill through the eye, covering the ear- 

 coverts ; a broad rusty-red band crosses the breast, and the upper flanks are tinged with this colour ; 

 chin, throat, and rest of the underparts white; axillaries and under wing-coverts white; bill blackish; 



