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Figures notabiles. 



D'Aubenton, PI. En.1. 921 ; Werner, Atlas, Coureurs, pi. 14 ; Kjeerb. Orn. Dan. taf. 30 ; 

 Fritsch, Vog. Eur. taf. 33. figs. 3, 4 ; Naumann, Vog. Deutschl. taf. 177; Sundevall, 

 Svensk. Fogl. pi. 37. fig. 4; Gould, B. of Eur. pi. 297; id. B. of G. Brit. iv. pi. 42; 

 Schlegel, Vog. Nederl. pi. 214. 



6 ad. JE. hiaticulce coloribus similis sed conspicue minor, rectrice extima rhachi alba, reliquis rhachibus fuscis : 

 rostro nigro macula ad basin mandibular flava : pedibus pallide et sordide ocbraceis : iride fusca, mar- 

 ginibus palpebrarum flavis. 



Juv. JEg. hiaticulce similis sed minor. 



Adult Male (near Constantinople, 3rd June). In coloration and general distribution of colour closely- 

 resembling JEgialitis hiaticula, but smaller in size; tbe sbaft of the first primary alone white, those 

 of the rest of the quills brown ; bill black, with a small yellow patch at the base of the lower mandible ; 

 legs dull fleshy yellow ; iris deep brown, edge of the eyelid yellow. Total length about 6 inches, 

 culmen - 62, wing 4*33, tail 2"3, tarsus 095. 



Young (Secunderabad). Resembles the young of JEgialitis hiaticula, but may be distinguished by its smaller 

 size, and by the first primary alone having a white shaft. 



The present species has a very extensive range — being found throughout Europe (except in the 

 high north), in Africa down as far south as the Gaboon and Mozambique, and in Asia as far 

 south as the Philippines and as far east as Chinai 



With us in England it is but a rare straggler ; and it is by no means easy to determine which 

 of the recorded occurrences really refer to the present species, and which to the small form of 

 JEgialitis hiaticula, which has so often done duty for the Lesser Ringed Plover. Mr. J. E. 

 Harting enumerates eleven instances of its occurrence in England, and adds that one of the 

 specimens there recorded is in his own collection ; but it does not appear to have been met with 

 either in Scotland or Ireland. It does not occur in Greenland or Iceland ; and though Mr. H. C. 

 Miiller records its occurrence on the Faeroes, he may have mistaken a small specimen of JEg. 

 hiaticula for this species. It is, however, found in Norway, and breeds, Mr. Collett says, in 

 sandy places on the shores of the fiords in Christiania and Christiansand stifts, more sparingly 

 along the west coast up to the Trondhjemsfiord, where it breeds in the Surendale. In the 

 interior it is not uncommon on inland waters, as at Oieren, Fiskumvand, Valders, Ransfiord, and 

 Glommen. In Sweden, Professor Sundevall says, it does not range much above 60° N. lat. It 

 is found in Upland, at Gefle, in Nerike, and Southern Wermland, and south of those districts in 

 suitable localities. According to Dr. Palmen (Finl. Fogl. ii. p. 90) it " is only found in Southern 

 and Central Finland. It is common on the southern coast near Wyburg and Borga, where it 

 breeds ; several nests were found on Nordsjoskatan, east of Helsingfors, in 1861, early in June. 

 It has also been found in the parish of Helsinge, and remains on the coasts as late as the end of 



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September. Mr. Sahlberg saw it on the Pyhajarvi Lake, and it occurs on Aland. It ranges up 

 into Southern Osterbotten ; and Mr. Alcenius obtained the bird and eggs in Larsmo kapell. It 

 is found on the Ladoga, and breeds at Kexholm. J. von Wright observed it at Kuopio on the 



