iEGIALITIS NIGRIFRONS, 



Fig. 1. 



JEg. fronte strigdque pone oculos per plumas auricular es ad nucham tendente, fascia que pectorali, nigris; 

 strigd superciliari ad nucham ductd, et super vittam nigram, alba ; vertice, dorso, tertialibus, aldque 

 media fuscis ; scapularibus intense castaneis ; tectricibus alee majoribus albis, primariis nigris ; 

 guld, abdomine, crissoque albis ; rectricibus caudce duabus intermediis ad basin fuscis, ad apicem 

 nigris ; tribus proximis ad basin albis, in fusco transeuntibus, et albo terminatis, reliquis albis ; 

 rostro ad basin aurantiaco, ad apicem nigro ; pedibus aurantiacis. 



Long. tot. 6 \ unc. ; rostri, | ; alee, 4^ ; caudce, <2± ; tarsi, 1. 



Forehead, a stripe commencing at the eye passing over the ear-coverts and round the back of 

 the neck, and a broad band crossing the chest and advancing somewhat down the centre of the breast, 

 black ; a stripe of white passes over each eye and continues round the back of the neck, separating 

 the black band from the crown, which with the back, the long tertials, and the middle of the wing are 

 brown ; scapularies deep chestnut ; tips of the greater coverts white, forming an obscure band across 

 the wing ; primaries black ; throat, abdomen, and under tail-coverts white ; two middle tail-feathers 

 brown at the base and black at the tip ; the next three on each side white at the base gradually passing 

 into blackish brown and largely tipped with white, the remainder entirely white ; bill orange at the 

 base and black at the tip ; feet orange. 



Syn. Charadrius nigrifrons, Cuv. in Mus. Paris. — Temm. PI. Col., 47. fig. 1. — Wagl. Syst. Av., 

 sp. 20. 



melanopsy Vieill., Nouv. Diet. d'Hist. Nat., p. 139. 



Habitat. Australia : locality, New South Wales. 



^EGIALITIS MONACHUS. 

 Fig. 2. 



JEg.capite, collo antice fascidque dor soli fuliginoso-atris ; nucha corporeque subtus albis; dorso scapula- 

 ribus tertiariisque cano-fuscis; aid media, pogoniis internis primarium ad basin secundariisque albis ; 

 pogoniis primarium externe interneque, parte basali exceptd, nigris ; rectricibus caudce duabus in- 

 termediis nigris, tribus sequentibus externis ad apicem et ad basin albis, parte centrali nigra, rec- 

 tricibus reliquis albis ; rostro ad basin aurantiaco, ad apicem nigro ; pedibus aurantiacis. 



Long. tot. 8^ unc; rostri, J; alai, S\ ; caudce, 2-^; tarsi, 1. 



Head, fore part of the neck, and a band across the upper part of the back sooty black ; back of the 

 neck and all the under surface white ; back, shoulders, and tertials greyish brown ; centre of the wing 

 and the basal portion of the internal webs of the primaries and secondaries white, the rest black; two 

 middle tail-feathers black; the three next on each side white at the base and tip and black in the centre; 

 the remaining feathers wholly white ; bill orange at the base and black at the tip ; legs orange. 



Syn. Charadrius Monachus, Geoff, in Mus. Paris. — Wagl. Syst. Av., sp. 15. 

 cucullatus, Vieill., Nouv. Diet. d'Hist. Nat., p. 136. 



Habitat. Australia. 



^GIALITIS BICINCTUS. 



Fig. 3. 



JEg. supra brunnescens, fasciis flavescentibus ; fronte albo ; subtus albus, cingido pectorali nigro ; altero 

 abdominali castaneo ; lunidd frontali alba ; hujus ad marginem superiorem plumis nigris ; pri- 

 mariis ad margines externas nigrescenti-fuscis, ad internas pallidioribus ; guld alba, lined angustd 

 nigra, circumdatd, ad lorum oriente, per colli later a tendente et in vittam latum pectoraiem mergente; 

 transversa vittd abdominali abdomineque medio late castaneis ; abdomine reliquo albo ; rectricibus 

 caudai duabus intermediis cinerascenti-fuscis ; rectricibus reliquis pallidioribus, externis duabus 

 albis ; rostro ad apicem nigro, ad basin flavescente ; pedibus nigri-viridibus. 

 Long. tot. 6f unc. ; rostri, |-; ala?, 4f ; caudai, 2|- ; tarsi, 1J. 



A broad stripe of white crosses the forehead, above which the feathers are black, which colour 

 gradually passes into the uniform pale brown which covers the whole of the upper surface ; outer 

 webs of the primaries blackish brown ; inner webs paler ; throat white, surrounded with a narrow 

 line of black which commences above the upper mandible and continues down the sides of the neck 

 and forms a broad band across the breast ; across and down the centre of the abdomen a broad band 

 of bright chestnut ; the rest of the under surface pure white ; two centre tail-feathers greyish brown, 

 those on each side paler, and the exterior ones white ; bill black at the tip, yellowish at the base ; 

 feet blackish green. 



Syn. Charadrius bicinctus, Jard. and Selb., 111. Orn., vol. i. pi. 28. 

 Chestnut-breasted Plover, Lath. Gen. Hist., vol. ix. p. 324. 



Habitat. Australia : locality, New Holland. 



