MALAYAN ORNITHOLOGY. 179 



The summer plumage is very different from that of the winter 

 time. In my note-book I find the following notes concerning two 

 specimens obtained alive from the Malacean coast on 13th April, 

 1879 :— 



" The two Sand-Plovers which were brought to me to-day differ 

 much in appearance; both are 2E. geoffi-ayi. My identification has 

 been confirmed by Mr. Davison ; so there can be no mistake ; but 

 they arc certainly very unlike one another, one being in the ordinary 

 brown-and-white winter plumage, the other, a female, in the rufous 

 colours of the breeding-season. This last, Mr. Davison tells me, 

 is the only specimen in summer plumage that he has ever seen in 

 these parts. The following is an accurate description of it: — 



" Length 8 \ inches, bill at front 1, tarsus 1^ ; bill black ; irides 

 dark brown ; forehead, lores, ear-coverts, and streak below eyes 

 black ; spot on each side of forehead, the chin, throat, abdomen, 

 margins of inner webs of the primaries, white; upper parts hair- 

 brown, tinged with rufous, particularly on the head and neck ; a 

 broad band round the upper part of the breast bright rufous." 



tEgialttis mongolica (Pall.). 



Frequents the coasts during the north-east monsoon. On 23rd 

 November I shot one out of a flock on the shores of Pulau Batam, 

 near Singapore. Length barely 8 inches, tarsus 1-^, beak at front 

 f ; upper parts dull brown, tinged, particularly on the wing-coverts, 

 with rufous ; the forehead and underparts white, with a rufous tinge, 

 deepest on the breast. It is rather like, but smaller than, 2E. 

 geoffroyi. 



iEGIALITIS DUBIA (Scop.). 



On 23rd November, 1S79, I shot a specimen of this small Ringed 

 Plover out of a party of five on the sandy strand bordering Pulau 

 Batam. At first I thought it was M. minuta ; but that bird has the 

 basal half of the beak yellow, while in this the whole of it is black. 



I shot another during November on the parade-ground at Tanglin, 

 Singapore. 



LOBIVANELLUS ATRONTJCHALIS (Blyth.). 



The Eed- wattled Lapwing is common in Perak and Larut, fre- 

 quenting the edges of j heels and the swampy valleys in the jungle. 

 I never found a nest ; but they probably breed in the peninsula, as 



