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that these are barren birds and birds of the previous year which do not breed the 
first season, is controverted, or at least shown to be only half true, by Mr. Hume’s 
record {g 6) of specimens apparently just newly fledged from the Andamans, 
and by the known breeding of allied species, A. geoffrogi, Char, fulvus (see supra), 
in their southern quarters. The birds are certainly not all barren; why they 
do not go north to breed remains to be explained; perhaps they find it wiser 
to stay where they are, perhaps they do not know the way. 
A. mongola is a species rarely met with in Celebes. S. Muller says he 
found it in Buton, and Rosenberg has its name in his list of Celebesian birds, 
but no confirmation of this occurred till W. Blasius (g 15, g 21) made known an 
example from Riedel in the Brunswick Museum. This record was unfortunately 
overlooked by us, and three specimens obtained by our native hunters at Main 
in the north of the Minahassa found mention (g 31) as new for Celebes. There 
are also two from Manado in the British Museum (k 1), most likely from 
Meyer. They add confirmation to Prof. W. Blasius’ Celebesian specimen, which 
did not bear a label, and so by itself seemed hardly complete proof of the locality. 
A. pyrrhothorax (Temm ), which was believed by W. Blasius ((/ /j to be a 
constant variety having all the forehead black or brown, a somewhat shorter 
wing and longer tarsus, is held by Dr. Stejneger {j 2) to be identical, since 
“the frontal and cervical marks are subject to an almost indefinite variation”, and 
these variations are not correlated with the length of the wing and tarsus. 
Sharpe, however, separates it again (1 1). 
For the habits of this Plover cf. Stejneger (8) and Legge (g 10). 
321. AEGIALITIS OURONIOA (Gm.). 
liesser Ringed Plover. 
a. Charadrius dubius')? (1) Scop., Del. Flor. et Faun. Insubr. 1786,93; Hartert, Kat. 
Vog. Slg. Senckenb. Mus. 1891, 217. 
b. Charadrius curonicus (1) Gm., S. N. 1788, I, 692 (ex Beseke). 
c. Charadrius philippinus (1) Lath., Ind. Om. 1790, II, 745; (2j Scbl., Mus. P.-B., Cursores, 
1865, 28; (3) Rosenb., Malay. Archqx 1878, 277; (4) Vorderm., N. T. Ned. Ind. 
1882, Xm, 105. 
d. Charadrius minor (1) Meyer &Wolf, Vog. Deutscbl. 1805, I, 182; (II) Naum., Vog. 
Deutschl. 1834, VTI, 225, t. 177; (III) Gld., B. Eur. 1837, IV, pi. 297; (IV) Seeb., 
Br. B. 1883, m, 16, pi. 26 (egg); (5) id., Distr. Oharadr. 1887, 130; (6) id., B. 
Japan 1890, 306; (7) Styan, Ibis 1891, 503; (8) Campb., Ibis 1892, 246; (9) De 
La Touche, t. c. 496; (10) Biittik., Zool. Erg. Weber’s Eeise 1893, HI, 282. 
e. Charadrius fluviatilis (1) Bechst., Naturg. Deutschl. 1809, IV, 422. 
Aegialitis minor (1) Boie, Isis 1822, 558; (II) Gld., B. Gt. Brit. 1871, IV, pi. 42; (3) 
Tacz., Faun. Orn. Sib. Orient. 1893, H, 830. 
1) For reasons why it is undesirable to make use of this name, see Tuegge C5J, It might belong to 
euroniea, or jerdoni, or some other species; the description of course suits neither of the former exactly. 
Several authors enumerate specimens of dubius and euroniea as if they were distinct species. Do they mean 
jerdoni by the former name, or what? 
