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BIRDS OF BRITISH BUEMAH. 
eye dark brown ; sides of the head and a broad supercilium rather densely 
streaked with brown ; the whole upper plumage^ wing- coverts and 
tertiaries brown, each feather fringed with dull white ; quills much as in 
summer, but the later primaries with a white patch on the outer webs ; all 
the quills margined narrowly with white; upper tail-coverts white, with a 
few irregular brown bars ; tail brown, closely barred with broad bars of 
brown ; sides of the throat and neck dull white, boldly streaked with 
brown ; fore neck and sides of the breast similarly streaked but more 
sparingly ; remainder of the lower plumage white, the sides of the body 
streaked and barred with brown ; axillaries blackish brown, narrowly tipped 
with brown. 
Irides dark brown ; bill, legs and feet black. [Armstrong.) 
Length 12 inches, tail 3*5, wing 7*8, tarsus 1*7, bill from gape 1-4. 
The plumage of this species varies excessively ; in general appearance it 
is extremely like Charadrius fulvus, but it may always be recognized by 
its black axillaries, absence of a hind toe, and larger size. 
The Grey Plover is a comparatively rare bird. I have never myself met 
with it ; but Capt. Wardlaw Ramsay procured it at Tonghoo, and Dr. Arm- 
strong observed it in the Irrawaddy Delta between Elephant Point and 
China Bakeer and again at Amherst. Mr. Blyth records it from Arrakan. 
It is a winter visitor to the Province. 
It is a bird of very wide distribution, being found, according to season, 
in every portion of the globe except perhaps South America. 
This species appears to be a sea-shore bird in great measure, being com- 
paratively seldom observed inland except on the banks of very large 
rivers. 
Genus ^GIALITIS, Boie. 
714. ^GIALITIS GEOFFEOYI. 
THE GREATER SAND-PLOVER. 
Charadrius geoffroyi, Wagl Syst. Av., Charadrius, sp. 19. .ffigialitis geoffroyi, 
Jerd. B, Ind. ii. p. 638 ; Harting, Ibis, 1870, p. 378, pi. xi. ; Salvad. Ucc. Born. 
p. 318 ; Armstrong, S. F. iv. p. 339 ; David et Oust. Ois. Chine, p. 426 ; Dresser, 
Birds Eur. vii. p. 475, pi; Hume 8f Dav. S. F. vi. p. 455; Hume, S. F. viii. 
pp. 112, 200 ; Legge, Birds Ceylon, p. 939 ; Oates, S. F. x. p. 237 ; Kelham, Ibis, 
1882, p. 9. Cirrepidesmus geoffroyi, Hume, S. F. i. p. 229, ii. p. 288 ; id. 
Nests and Eggs, p. 571. 
Description. — Male and female in winter. Forehead, a broad supercilium 
and the entire lower plumage, with the under wing-coverts and axillaries. 
