479 



j;gialitis asiatica. 



(CASPIAN PLOVER.) 



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



Charadrius caspius, Pallas, Zoogr. Eosso-As. ii. p. 136, tab. lviii (1811). 



Charadrius jugularis, Wagl. Syst. Av. fol. 5, p. 5. no. 39 (1827). 



Eudromias asiaticus (Pall.), Keys. & Bias. Wirbelth. Eur. p 70 (1840). 



Charadrius damarensis, Strickl. Contrib. Om. 1851, p. 148. 



Charadrius gigas, L. Brehm, Naumannia, 1855, v. p. 289. 



Eudromias asiatica (Pall.), C. L. Brehm, Vogelfang, p. 281 (1855 



JEgialitis gigas, C. L. Brehm, Vogelfang, p. 283 (1855). 



Morinellus caspius (Pall.), Bp. Compt. Bend, xliii. p. 417 (1856). 



Morinellus caspius (Pall.), Bp. Cat. Parzud. p. 14 (1856). 



Morinellus asiaticus (Pall.), Degl. & Gerbe, Orn. Eur. ii. p. 132 (1867). 



Figures notabiles. 



PalL Zoogr. Rosso-As. tab. lviii.; Naum. Vog. Deutschl. taf. 386. figs. 1, 2; Harting, Ibis, 

 1870, pi. v. 



3 ad. ptil. (Est. supra fuscus, plumis nonnullis in dorso et nucha ochraceo-fuseo apicatis, scapularibus ochraceo 

 marginatis : remigibus nigro-fuscis : cauda saturate fusca, rectricibus fere omnibus albo apicatis : fronte, 

 stria magna, superciliari, loris et regione suboculari, mento et gula albis : gutture imo et pectore ferru- 

 gineis, in parte ima nigro marginatis : eorpore reliquo subtiis et axillaribus albis : rostro nigricante : 

 pedibus ochraceis : iride fusca. 



2 ad. ptil. (Est. mari similis, sed pabidior, nee pectore et gutture imo ferrugineis, sed griseo-fuscis vix rufescenti 

 tinctis. 



Ad. ptil. Mem. feminse similis, sed pectore pallidiore et grisescentiore. 



Juv. eorpore supra sicut in ptilosi hiemali picturato, sed plumis ochraceo-cervino vel albo-cervino marginatis, 

 fronte et stria, superciliari cervino lavatis, pectore pallide griseo-cervino. 



Pull, pdeo et eorpore supra cervino-albis vix rufescenti-cervino lavatis et uigro marmoratis : fronte, capitis 

 lateribus et eorpore subtiis albis. 



Adult Male in summer (Kirghis steppes, June). Upper parts generally hair-brown, a few of the feathers on 

 the back and nape tipped with ochreous brown ; scapulars margined with ochreous ; quills blackish 

 brown ; tail dark hair -brown, most of the feathers tipped with white ; forehead, a broad streak over the 

 eye, sides of the head before and below the eye, chin, and throat pure white ; lower throat and upper 

 breast rich rust-red, forming a broad pectoral band, bordered below with black ; rest of the underparts 

 and axillaries pure white ; bill blackish ; legs ochreous yellow ; iris dark yellow. Total length about 

 T'5 inches, culmen TO, wing 5 '62, tail 2 - l, tarsus l - 6. 



Adult Female in summer (Kirghis steppes, June). Differs from the male in being rather paler in colour, in 



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