. A handbook of British birds, showing the distribution of the resident and migratory species in the British islands, with an index to the records of the rarer visitants . in y^gialitis, the under parts asin Eudromias, that is, the breast ashy-grey, merginginto black on the belly, and chestnut on the flanksand vent. Its affinities seem to be rather with theCrowned Plovers of Africa and India, of whichseveral species are known, and which have beenconveniently grouped under the name Chwtusia ofBonaparte. CASPIAN DOTTEREL. Eudromias asiaticus (Pallas).Length, 75 in.; bill, 0*8 in.; wing, 5*5 in.;
. A handbook of British birds, showing the distribution of the resident and migratory species in the British islands, with an index to the records of the rarer visitants . in y^gialitis, the under parts asin Eudromias, that is, the breast ashy-grey, merginginto black on the belly, and chestnut on the flanksand vent. Its affinities seem to be rather with theCrowned Plovers of Africa and India, of whichseveral species are known, and which have beenconveniently grouped under the name Chwtusia ofBonaparte. CASPIAN DOTTEREL. Eudromias asiaticus (Pallas).Length, 75 in.; bill, 0*8 in.; wing, 5*5 in.; bare partof tibia, 07 in.; tarsus, 1*5 in. Hob. China, Turkey, and the shores of the Caspian,Russia, Red Sea shore, Abyssinia, and South Africa. One, North Denes, Yarmouth, Norfolk, May 22, 1890:Southwell, Proc. Zool. Soc, 1890, p. 461, and ZooL,1890, p. 311; Stevenson and Southwell, Birds ofNorfolk, p. 382, and Trans. Norf. Nat. Soc, v. p. 203(1891). In the Norwich Museum. Obs. In appearance this Plover, which in breedingplumage has a rufous pectoral band, seems to holdan intermediate position between the Dotterels(Eudromias) and the Crowned Plovers {Chsetusia),. > ^ PLOVERS 417 resembling the former in the coloration of the pec-toral region, and the latter in its longer and moreslender bill and tarsi. In the Ihis for April 1870 (pp. 202-209) I havegiven a somewhat detailed account of the species,accompanied by a coloured figure. LITTLE RINGED PLOVER. ^gialitis curonica(Gmelin). PI. 19, figs. 9, 9a. Length, 6-5 in.; bill,0*5 in.; wing, 4*5 in.; tarsus, 0-9 in. Rah. Europe; Asia; North Africa. One, Shoreham, Sussex (Doubleday): Strickland, Mag. Nat. Hist., vol. viii. p. 508; figured by Gould in his Birds of , Norwich Museum, said to have been killed in Norfolk (Lubbock, Fauna of Norfolk, p. 73). One only exists at present, its history doubtful: Stevenson, Birds of Norfolk, vol. ii. p. , Whixley, Yorkshire, July 30, 1850: Garth, Zool., 1850, p. 2953 ; Clarke,
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