750 
Birds of Celebes: Charadriidae. 
Aegialitis curonica (or curonicus) (1) Keys. & Bias., WirbeltL Eur. 1840, 71; ('JTj Dresser, 
B. Europe VET, 491, pi. 524 (1876); (3J Prjev., Bowl. Orn. Misc. 1877, II, 435; 
(4) Hume & Davis., Str. E. 1878, VI, 456, 521; ^5) Legge, B. Ceylon 1880, 
952; (6) Bolau, J. f. 0. 1880, 131; (7) Salvad., Orn. Pap. 1882, HI, 304; (8) 
Baird, Brew. & Bidgw., Water B. K. Am. 1884, I, 159; (9) Dedit., J. f. 0. 1886, 
527; (10) Badde & Walter, Oniis 1889, 107; (11) M. &Wg., Abh. Mus. Dresd. 
1895, Hr. 8, p. 17; (12) iid., ib. 1896, Nr. 1, p. 6. 
g. Aegialitis dubia (1) Wald., Tr. Z. S. 1872, VHI, 89; (2) David & Oust., Ois. Chine 
1877, 429; (3) Hume, Str. E. 1878, VH, 227; (4) id., ib. 1879, VHI, 69; (4^‘^) 
WardI Bams., Tweedd. Oni. Works 1881, 659, Nr. 309; Kelham, Ibis 1882, 
10; (6) Oates, B. Brit. Burmab 1883, H, 370; (7) Sharpe, Ibis 1888, 203; (8) 
W. Bias., Ornis 1888, 319; (VIIP‘^) Meyer, VogelskeL 1886, I, pL CVHI; (9) 
Everett, J. SB. Br. B. A. S. 1889, 205; (10) Whitelid., Ibis 1890, 58; (11) Sh., 
t. c. 142, 284; (12) Oates, ed. Hume’s Ne.sts and Eggs 1890, HI, 338; (13) Steere, 
List Coll. B. & M. Philipp. 1890, 25; (14) Bns. & Worces., B. Menage Exp. 1894, 
31; (15) Everett, Ibis 1895, 34; (16) Grant, t. c. 266, 472; (17) Sharpe, Cat. 
B. 1896, XXIY, 263, 744; (18) Hart., Nov. Zool. 1896, 590. 
h. Charadrius philippinensis (1) Bosenb., Zook Garten 1881, 167. 
i. 1 Aegialitis peroni (1) Vorderm., N. T. Ned. Lid. 1892, LI, 409. 
For further synonymy cf. Dresser II; Seebohm d 5; Sharpe g 17. 
Figures and descriptions. Naumann d II; G-ould d III, f II; Dresser II; Meyer g VIIP‘^ 
(skel); Seebohm d5 (woodcut); Vorderman c 4; Taezan. f 3; Legge 5; Baird, 
Brew. & Bidgw. 8; Oates g 6; Sharpe g 17. 
Adult in winter. Above drab-brown, with paler edgings to the feathers, forehead paling into 
buff-white; lores blackish, this colour passing under the eye on to the ear-coverts; 
cheeks, chin, throat and nuchal collar white, bounded below by a blackish 
collar round neck, tinged with pale brovni on jugulum; remaining under-parts 
Avhite; primary coverts and outer primaries blacldsh, the first with the shaft 
Avhite, the inner remiges browner, slightly tijiped ivith white; middle tail-feathers 
drab, the terminal 20 mm blackish, all the lateral tail-feathers broadly tipped with 
white, increasing towards the outermost, which are white with a cross-mark of black 
on the inner web; “iris dark brovTi; bill black, yelloAv in some at the base of the 
under mandible; eyelid yellowish; legs and feet dusky yellow; joints and tips of toes 
greenish brown”: Legge 5 (rf, Tondano, 17. Nov. 1894: P. &F. Sarasin). 
Young in first plumage. Very like the adult described; the blackish Avanting on the ear- 
coverts, less pronounced on the lores; the dark collar smaller, pale bromi on the 
jugulum, dusky on sides thereof; the feathers of the upper parts more conspicuously 
margined Avith pale brown (o’, Kema, 26. Oct. 93: P. &E. Sarasin). 
Adult in breeding plumage. Has the collar jet-black, passing narroAvly across the liind- 
neck, broadly across the jugulimi and sides of breast ; a patch of black covering lores, 
subocular region (except for a narrow white mark just below the eyehd) and ear- 
coverts; a broad bar of black across crown from eye to eye; forehead white, except 
just at base of bill (cf ad., Dresden: SchAvarze — Nr. 14150). 
Measurements. 
Wing 
Tail 
Tarsus 
Bill from 
forehead 
a. (Sarasin Coll.) cf juv., Kema, 26. Oct. 93 ... . 
115 
58 
25.5 
13 
h. (Sarasin Coll.) f Kema, 20. Oct. 93 
115 
58 
26 
13 
e. (Sarasin Coll.) f Tondano, 17. Sept. 94 
116 
62 
27 
12.5 
