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allen’s naturalist’s library. 
structure is made of dried grass, which, with perhaps a few 
dead leaves of the dwarf willow, are arranged in a circular 
saucer-shaped form, about four or five inches across. 
Uggg. — Four in number, very similar to those of the Euro- 
pean Golden Plover, but slightly smaller, the markings being 
precisely similar to those of the last-named bird, the black 
blotches being confluent and generally near the larger end, 
while the underlying grey markings are scarcely perceptible. 
Axis, i' 85-2-05 inches; diam., ray-i'ss. . 
THE RED-BREASTED DOTTERELS. GENUS 
OCHTHODROMUS. 
Ochthodrotmis, Reichenb. Av. Syst. Nat. p. xviii. (1852). 
Type, O. wilsoni (Ord). 
In the present genus, and in the Sand-Plovers, there is no 
specially donned black breast in summer, as in the Grey and 
Golden Plovers. Of all the species now to be considered, the 
Dotterel {Eudromias morindliis) is the only one which has 
black on the under surface. In the genus OchtJiodromus the 
bill is much stouter than in the smaller species of Sand-Plovers, 
belonging to the genus .^giuhtts, and most of the species 
have a cinnamon-coloured band across the chest in summer 
plumage. 
I. THE ASIATIC DOTTEREL. OCHTHODROMUS ASIATICUS. 
Charcidrius astciticus, Pallas, Reis. Russ. Reichs. ii. p. 7^5 
(1773). 
^gialitis asiaiica, Dresser, B. Eur. vii. p. 479 , P^s. 52°, ^g- 
522 (1878) ; Butler, Ibis, 1890, p. 463 ; Southwell, P. Z. S. 
1890, p. 461 ; Lilford, Col. Fig. Brit. B. part xxi. (1892). 
Ochthodronms asiatictis, Sharpe, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xxiv. p. 23. 
Adnlt Male in Summer Plumage. — General colour above brown, 
without any rufous collar on the hind-neck ; forehead and 
sides of face white, with no black on the forehead or ear- 
coverts ; under surface of body white, with a broad band of bright 
chestnut across the fore-neck, with a narrow black band skirt- 
ing the lower edge of the rufous neck-band ; quills dark brown. 
