THE BIRDS OF AUSTRALIA. 
^gialites leschenaultii Swinhoe, Ibis 1861, p. 342 ; id., Proc, Zool. Soc. (Lond.) 
1863, p. 309. 
OcMhodromus inornatus Gould, Handb. Birds Austr., Vol. II., p. 237, 1865. 
Charadrius columhoides Gray, Handl. Gen. Spec. Birds, pt. iii., p. 14, 1871. 
Eudromias crassirostris Severtzoff, Turkest. Jevotnie, p. 146, 1873 (Fort Peroffsky, 
Turkestan) ; Dresser, Ibis 1876, p. 327. 
Eudromias geoffroyi id., Journ. fiir Omith. 1873, p. 346. 
Eudromias magnirostris id., ib. 1875, p. 182 (n.n.). 
OcMhodromus geo^royi Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit, Mus., Vol. XXIV., p. 217, 1896; 
Campbell, Nests and Eggs Austr. Birds, p. 792, 1901 ; Carter, Emu, Vol. III., 
p. 176, 1904 ; Hall, Key Birds Austr., p. 82, 1906 ; Mathews, Handl. Birds 
Austral., p. 24, 1908 ; Ogilvie-Grant, Ibis 1910, p. 182. 
Distribution. Asia (north as far as China) to Austraha (Europe accidental). 
Adult male, in hreeding-'plumage. General colour above pale brown, the feathers every- 
where showing black shaft-streaks, with a wash of cinnamon-rufous on the upper- 
back and scapulars ; greater coverts brown margined and tipped with white ; 
median coverts grey ; lesser coverts dark brown fringed vdth white at the tips like 
the primary-co^'erts ; primary-quills dark brown, inner webs fringed with white 
towards the base, shaft of the first primary white, the four following white 
only towards the tips, the remaining primaries white on the outer web and fringed 
with white at the tips ; secondaries brown on the outer webs, fringed with white 
at the tip, some of the inner ones white on the outer web and pale grey on 
the inner one, the long innermost secondaries like the back ; upper tail-coverts 
grey, tipped with white ; middle tail-feathers dark brown fringed with white at 
the tips becoming paler on the outer feathers, the outermost pair being almost pure 
white with an obsolete spot of grey near the tip ; crown of head, hind-neck, and a 
narrow collar round the fore-neck cinnamon-rufous, which extends more or less 
on to the sides of the upper-breast ; lores and a line across the forehead black fringed 
with white ; a black spot below the eye ; ear-coverts dark brown streaked with 
white ; middle of crown darker than the hind-neck and inchning to grey ; forehead, 
throat, and the remainder of the imder-surface white including the under wing- 
coverts, axillaries, and under tail-coverts ; bill black ; iris brown ; tarsi light 
brown ; feet darker brown. Total length 230 mm. ; culmen 25, wing 140, tail 55, 
tarsus 37. 
Adult female, in breeding-plumage. Similar to the male in nuptial-dress, but the characters 
everywhere less pronounced ; the black on the lores, forehead, and under the eye 
being absent, the ear-coverts rufous-brovn, and the middle of the crovn more 
grey. 
Adult, in winter-plumage. Differs from the breeding-plumage in the entire absence of 
cinnamon-rufous on the head, hind-neck, and collar on the fore-neck ; also by the 
absence of black on the forehead, lores, and a spot below the eye ; the ear-coverts 
grey, the forehead and a line over the eye white like the cheeks, throat, and under- 
surface of body. 
One example, just assuming winter-plumage, still retains an indication of the 
cinnamon-rufous collar on the hind-neck, the band on the fore-neck is more 
strongly pronounced and is composed of rufous and grey feathers, the superciliary- 
line buff ; there is no black line across the forehead, and the patch under the eye 
and on the ear-coverts is rufous-brown. 
Nest and Eggs. Unknown. 
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