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PLUVIANUS ^GYPTIUS. 



(BLACK-HEADED PLOVER.) 



Charadrius cegyptius, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. p. 254 (1766). 



Le Pluvian, Buff. Hist. Nat. Ois. viii. p. 104 (1781). 



Green-headed Plover, Lath. Gen. Syn. Suppl. ii. p. 320 (1787). 



Charadrius melanocephalus, Gmel. Syst. Nat. i. p. 692 (1788). 



Charadrius africanus, Lath. Ind. Orn. Suppl. p. lxvii (1801). 



Pluvianus melanocephalus (Gm.), Vieill. Nouv. Diet, xxvii. p. 129 (1818). 



Pluvianus chlorocephalus, Vieill. torn. cit. p. 130 (1818). 



Hyas, Gloger, in Froriep's Notiz. a. d. Geb. d. Nat. u. Heilk. Band xvi. p. 279 (1827). 



Cursor charadroides, Wagl. Syst. Av. Gen. Cursor, sp. 6 (1827). 



Ammoptila charadroides (Wagl.), Swains. Classif. of B. ii. p. 364 (1837). 



Cheilodromas melanocephalus (Gm.), Riipp, Mus. Senckenb. ii. p. 208 (1845). 



Pluvianus cegyptius (L.), Strickl. Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 1852, x. p. 348. 



Pluvianus &gyptiacus (L.), A. E. Brehm, Journ. f. Orn. 1853, Extrah. p. 102. 



Hyas a?gyptia (L.), Cabanis, Journ. f. Orn. 1854, p. 71. 



Hyas aegyptiaca (L.), A. E. Brehm, Journ. f. Orn. 1856, p. 329. 



Cursorius cegyptius (L.), Schlegel, Mus. Pays-Bas, Cursores, p. 14 (1865). 



Ter el temsach, Arabic. 



Figures notabiles. 



D'Aubenton, PL Enl. 918; Savigny, Desc. de l'Egypte, pi. 6. fig. 4; Gould, B. of Asia, 

 part xvii. 



Ad. pileo, capitis lateribus, collo postico, dorso et fascia pectorali nitide purpureo-nigris, linea, alba usque ad 

 nucham et circum pileum ducta. : uropygio albo : tectricibas alarum minoribus et medianis, scapu- 

 laribus et supracaudalibus cauis : cauda saturate cana albo apicata, : rectricibus omnibus, ceutralibus 

 exceptis, nigro subapicatis : remige extimo nigro, extus in parte basali albo, reliquis in parte basali 

 nigris et in parte apicali albis nigro apicatis : corpore subtiis albo, abdomine et gutture rufescenti- 

 cervino lavatis, subcaudalibus rufescenti-cervinis : rostro nigro : iride fusca : pedibus ca^rulescenti- 

 cinereis. 



Adult Male (Egypt), Crown, sides of the head, hind neck, back, and a band passing round and meeting 

 on the breast, glossy purplish black; a white band passes from the base of the upper mandible round 

 the crown, meeting on the nape ; one or two of the black feathers on the back much elongated ; rump 

 white; lesser and median wing-coverts, scapulars, and upper tail-coverts dark French grey or blue- 

 grey; tail dark blue-grey tipped with white, all but the central feathers with a black subterminal band; 

 first primary black with the outer web white on the basal half; rest of the quills black on the basal 

 half, then white terminated with black; underparts white, on the abdomen and throat washed with 



