JSGIALITIS MONGOLICA*. 
(THE MONGOLIAN SAND-PLOVER.) 
Charadrius mongolus, Pallas, Eeise, iii. p. 700 (1776). 
Charadrius mongolicus, Pallas, Zoogr. Rosso-As. ii. p. 136 (1811) ; Middendorf S,b>r. Re.se, 
ii. p. 211, pi. 19. Sgs. 2, 3 (1853); Schrenck, Reis, im Amm-L. p_ 411 (1860) hch eg , 
Mus. P.- 11. Cursores, p. 41 (1865) ; Von HeugHn, Om. ■ ' - 1 ‘('If 
Charadrius cantianus , Lath, apud Horsf. Trans. Linn. Soc. xiii^ p* i 
Charadrius rujinellus , Blyth, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. xii. p. 169 (1 
Iliaticula inornata , Gould, B. of Austr. vi. pi. 19 (1848). 
1 1liaticula leschenaulti. Less, apud Layard, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 1854, xiv. p. 
Mjialitis pyrrhothorax, Temm. apud Jerdon, B. of Ind. iii. p. 639 (1864). 
MaMis mongolicus, Pallas, Harting, Ibis, 1870, p. 384; Legge, Ibis, 1874, pp. -W , 28 
Salvadori, Uccelli di Borneo, p. 310 (1874); Hume, Str. Feath. 1876, pp. -93, 4 i , 
Armstrong, t. c. p. 339 ; David & Oust. Ois. de la Chine, p. 427 (1877). 
MaiaUtis mongola (Pallas), Walden, Ibis, 1873, p. 317 ; Hume, Str. Feath. 1878 (B. of 
‘ Tenass.), p. 455, et 1879, viii. p. 112 (List Ind. B.) ; Ball, ibid. 1878, vh. p. 22,. 
Cirrepidesmus mongolicus (Pallas), Hume, Str. Feath. 1873, p. 230, et 1874, p. 28,, et 18, o, 
p. 12 ; id. Nests and Eggs, iii. p. 571 (1875). 
JEgialitis mongolica (Pall.), Walden, Trans. Zool. Soc. 1875, ix. p. 227 ; Legge, Ibis, 
1875, p. 401. 
Pallas's Shore-Plover and The Lesser Sand-Plover , Jerdon et auctorum ; Tschitsche hirugu, 
Amoor Land (Middendorff). Kotan, Ceylonese Tamils ; Watuwa, Ceylonese. 
Adult male and female (Ceylon). Length 7 T to 7-5 inches (average , aboui ^[ 5 ^ 5 ^ ™ * *° ’ 
, Qrilia to 1.3 . m iddle toe and claw 0-85 to 0 ' 9 ; bill to gape 0‘7 to 0 8, at tront U M to u 
[ri . £££*> « 'blTek, slightly pale at the ha., beneath , tibia »d feet plnn.been., wtth the tare, .late-grey, the 
edges of the scales being darker, or in some greenish plumbeous entirely. 
Winter plumage (Ceylon). This species almost entirely resembles the last; but, as it is much more common, L will 
give a description of it in detail for the benefit of local students and collectors:— . . . , 
Above greyish brown, paling on the hind neck, and with the margins of the feathers paler than the rest ; forehead 
white passing above the lores and over the eyes, behind which the supereilium widens and is joined by a white 
streak from beneath the eye ; wing-coverts edged with whitish; edge of the wing and tips of greater cover s 
white ; tips of the secondaries, as also the outer edges, and a portion of the web near the shaft of the innermost, 
white • tertials more or less finely edged with white ; primaries and shafts as in the last ; feathers of the rump 
and upper tail-coverts not quite so broadly edged as in the last; tail the same, but slightly less graduated ; lores 
browm darkest at the eyelid ; cheeks and ear-coverts brownish ; beneath white the brown of the sides of h 
neck encroaching on the chest in some more than in others ; under wing and axillanes as in the last, pure white. 
The amount of white varies on the forehead, consequent on age. 
Adult ma le breeding-plumage (Swatow, 24 th May). Throat, upper part of fore neck and a broad frontal band, 
toSer with the under surface, white ; a jet-black band from the bill to the eye, and expanding beneath it to the 
ear-coverts, and another narrow connecting one across the forehead ; a broad rufous band, of a darkei ue than m 
* I adopt the spelling as altered by the author of the species himself in 1811 , as it is more correct than his original 
name mongola. 
