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Birds of Celebes: Cbaradriidae. 
further from New Guinea and New Ireland, and questions Schlegel’s deter- 
mination of the specimens of A. curonica from Java, Borneo, and Celebes in the 
Leyden Museum, suggesting that they may he jerdoni. Since A.jerdoni occurs in 
New Guinea as well as India, it is of course almost certain that it will be 
found in the intermediate countries, either as a migrant or a resident; at present, 
however, we know of no satisfactory proof of this. The Sarasins’ specimens 
from Celebes show themselves by their large size and by their bills to be 
. A. curotnca^ most likely wanderers from the north, and Schlegel’s specimens 
are probably the same. A. jm-doni is described by Legge as having the wing 
99 108, tail 51 — 56, tarsus 24 — ^25.4 mm, and without or with a very small 
amount of black extending from the lores across the base of the forehead, with 
more yellow on the bill, the basal half of the lower mandible and a spot at 
the base of the culmen being yellow, and with a remarkably protuberant and 
corrugated fleshy orbital circle. 
It appears possible that A. jerdoni has arisen from A. curonica from individuals 
which have settled in the winter quarters, like as Charadrius fulvus and Aegialitis 
geoffroyi seem to have done in one or two spots. 
The Little Binged Plover may be looked for on the strand of fresh w'ater 
lakes and of rivers, especially as Naumann says, those which have not a muddy 
bed; among other places it is plentiful along the Elbe near Dresden, where it 
breeds, leaving for the winter. Its note is a plaintive pipe or whistle, rather 
like that of a young chicken, and well expressed by Naumann as “dia”, both 
vowels uttered shortly and almost in one tone. 
322. AEGIALITIS PERONI (Schl). 
Malay Shore Plover. 
a. Charadrius peroni [Temm. in Leyden Mus.], (1) Bp., Compt. Bend. 1856, XLIII, 417, 
Nr. 68 (descript, nulla); (2) Schl., Mus. P.-B., Cursores, 1865, 33; (3) Gray, HL, 
1871, rn, 16, Nr. 10005; (4) Brugg., Abh. Ver. Bremen 1876, V, 89; (5) Eosenb., 
Malay. Arebip. 1878, 277; (6) Seeb., Distr. Cbaradr. 1887, 166. 
h. Charadrius alexandrinus (1) Mottl. & Dilhv. (nec Hasselq.), Oontr. Nat. Hist. Lab. 1855, 
47 (fide Salvad.). 
e. Charadrius philippinus (1) Pelz. (nec Lath.), Novara Beise, Vog. 1865, 116, 162. 
d. Aegialites perronii (1) Swinh., P, Z. S. 1870, 139. 
Aegialitis peroni (I) Wald., Tr. Z. S. 1872, Vm, 90, pi. X, fig. 2; (2) Salvad., Cat. Ucc. 
Borneo 1874, 315; (3) Tweedd., P. Z. S. 1878, 344, 711; (4) Meyer, Ibis 1879, 
141; (5) Hume, Str. P. 1879, VIH, -200, 201; (6) Legge, B. Ceylon 1880, 948; 
(7) Sharpe, Ibis 1884, 322; (8) Guillem., P. Z. S. 1885, 417; (9) Sharpe, Ibis 
1888, 203; (10) W. Bias., Omis 1888, 319; (11) Everett, J. Str. Br. E. A. S. 1889, 
205; (12) Whitehead, Ibis 1890, 58; (13) Sh. & Whitehead, t. c. 142; (14J Steere, 
List B, & M. Philipp. 1890, 25; fl5j Heine & Ecbw., Nomencl. Mus. Hein. 1890, 
336; (16) Sharpe, Bis 1894, 243, 258; ? (llj Vorderm.i), N. T. Ned. Ind. 1895, 
1) A specimen recently described by Dr. Vorderman (N. T. Ned. Ind. 1892, LI, 409) from Java as 
A. 'peroni shows itself by its long wing (1 16 mm) to be some other species — perhaps curonica, since the shaft 
of the first primary only is white and the tail measures 55 mm. 
