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BIRDS OF BEITISH BUEMAH. 
717. JEGIALITIS DUBIA. 
THE LESSER RINGED PLOVER. 
Charadrius dubius, Scop. Del. Flor. et Faun. Itisub. ii. p. 93. Charadrius 
curonicus, Gm. Syst. Nat. i. p. 692. Charadrius philippinus, Lath. Ind. 
Orn. ii. p. 745. Charadrius fluviatilis, Bechst. Gemeinn. Naturg. Beutschl. iv. 
p. 422. .aSgialitis philippensis {Scop.), apud Jerd. B. Ind. ii. p. 640. ^gia- 
litis fluviatilis, Hume, S. F. i. p. 230^ ii. p. 289 ; id. Nests and Fggs, p. 572. 
^gialitis dubius, Sahad. TJcc. Born. p. 316 ; Bl. B. Burm. p. 153 ; David et 
Oust. Ois. Chine, p. 429 ; Anders. Yunnan Exped. p. 676 ^ Hume, S. F. vii. 
p. 227 (note) ; Cripps, S. F. vii. p. 299 ; Hume, S. F. vii. p. 300 (note), viii. 
pp. 112, 199 ; Scully, S. F. viii. p. 351 ; Bingham, S. F. ix. p. 196 ; Oates, S. F. 
X. p. 237 ; Kelham, Ibis, 1882, p. 10. .^gialitis curonica, Wald. in Bl. B. 
Burm. p. 154 ; Dresser, Birds Eur. vii. p. 491, pi. ; Armstrong, S. F. iv. p. 340 ; 
Hiwie 8f Dav. S. F. vi. p. 456 ; Legge, Birds Ceylon, p. 952. 
Description. — Male and female. Feathers immediately at the base of the 
upper mandible black_, continued as a band to the eyes^, widening and 
encircling the eye and covering the ear-coverts ; forehead white,, next to 
which is a broad black band succeeded by a narrower white one which is 
continued on both sides over the eyes to the end of the ear-coverts ; the 
whole chin and throat pure white continued narrowly round the hind neck 
to form a collar ; a broad band across the breast blacky continued nar- 
rowly round the hind neck immediately next the white collar ; crown, 
nape, back, rump, upper tail-coverts, wing-coverts, scapulars and tertiaries 
ashy brown ; central tail-feathers ashy brown broadly tipped with dark 
brown ; the next ashy brown, then subterminally dark brown and tipped 
with white ; the remaining feathers intermediate in coloration between 
these and the outermost feathers, which are pure white with a brown patch 
near the centre of the inner webs ; quills ashy brown, the shaft of the first 
primary white, those of the others all brown; the secondaries broadly 
tipped and partially margined with white ; the whole under plumage from 
the breast-band downwards white, as are also the axillaries and under 
wing- coverts. 
In winter the plumage appears to undergo very little change, the black 
bands on the head and breast being merely mixed with greyish and conse- 
quently being less well defined. 
Bill black, a very small portion of the base of the lower mandible 
yellowish ; iris dark brown ; edges of the eyelids yellow ; legs dusky 
greenish brown ; in the summer the legs are said to be yellow. 
Length 6*5 inches, tail 2*4, wing 4*5, tarsus '9^ bill from gape '6. The 
female is a little larger. 
The Lesser Ringed Plover appears to be generally distributed throughout 
Burmah as a winter visitor. I found it tolerablv abundant in Southern 
