. A history of the birds of Europe, not observed in the British Isles . g and pointed, the first primary the long and rounded, or with the two central rectrices elongated. Tarsuslong and slender, scutellated (not reticulated, as in Charadrius). Dorsalplumage plain, or more or less uniformly coloured. A pectoral or abdominalband of a red or black colour, sometimes both. ASIATIC DOTTEREL, Eudromias asiaticus. Eudro7nias asiaticus, Keys, et Blas. ; Wirbelth. E., p. 268. G. R. Gray; List B. Mus., 1844. Heuglin; Syst. Uebers. Vog. N. O. Afr., p. 57, 1856. Harting; Ibis, 1870, p. 202, p
. A history of the birds of Europe, not observed in the British Isles . g and pointed, the first primary the long and rounded, or with the two central rectrices elongated. Tarsuslong and slender, scutellated (not reticulated, as in Charadrius). Dorsalplumage plain, or more or less uniformly coloured. A pectoral or abdominalband of a red or black colour, sometimes both. ASIATIC DOTTEREL, Eudromias asiaticus. Eudro7nias asiaticus, Keys, et Blas. ; Wirbelth. E., p. 268. G. R. Gray; List B. Mus., 1844. Heuglin; Syst. Uebers. Vog. N. O. Afr., p. 57, 1856. Harting; Ibis, 1870, p. 202, pi. v. Charadrius asiaticus et caspius, Pallas ; Reise et Zoogr. R. A. Latham. Gmelin. Schlegel. Wagler ; Syst. Avium, fol. 5, p. 5, No. ; Voyage Ross. Merid. iii., p. ; Contrib. Orn., Bonaparte; ut ; Comxp. Rend., 1856, p. ; Handb. B. Australia, ii., p. 229, and Gerbe ; Orn. Eur., ii.,p. 132, 1867. Jugularis,it it damarensis,gigas,Morinellus caspius,Cirripedesmus asiaticus, Morinellus caspius,. ASIATIC DOTTEREL. 175 Specific Characters.—Shaft of first primary white; the next white from thecentre; brown at the base. Upper part of plumage of a uniform olivebrown, with clear edges to the feathers. Forehead and superciliary ridgewhite, tinged with rufous. Upper chest dark rufous brown, with a borderbelow of blackish feathers. Length seven inches; wing from carpus fiveinches and two tenths ; tail two inches; tarsus one inch and four fifths;bill one inch. We are indebted for almost all we know about this bird to anexcellent monograpb by Mr. Harting in the Ibis for 1870, fromwhich article most of what follows is taken. This bird has a wide range, being found in Northern China(Swinhoe), Tartary, and the shores of the Caspian Sea (Pallas),Russia (Radde), Odessa (Nordmann), Heligoland (Blasius), AltaiMountains (Mus. Brit.), Palestine, Bay of Acre (Tristram), Red SeaShore (Heuglin), Abyssinia (Blanford), South Af
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