. The geographical distribution of the family Charadriidae, or the plovers, sandpipers, snipes, and their allies . p. lxxi (1840). Hiaticula philippina (Latt.)OBlyth> Cat B Mus, As. Soc, 263j 264 (1849). Hiaticula pusilla (Horsf.), J Hiaticula curonica (Gmel.), Lichtenstein, Nomencl. Av. p. 94 (1854). iEgialites zonatus (Swains.), Hartlaub, Orn. p. 216 (1857). iEgialites pusillus (Horsf.), Swinhoe, Ibis, 1860, p. 63. iEgialites philippinus (Lath.), Swinhoe, Ibis, 1861, p. 342. iEgialitis minutus (Pall.), Jerdon, B. India, ii. p. 641 (1864). Pluvialis fluviatilis (Bechst.), Droste, V
. The geographical distribution of the family Charadriidae, or the plovers, sandpipers, snipes, and their allies . p. lxxi (1840). Hiaticula philippina (Latt.)OBlyth> Cat B Mus, As. Soc, 263j 264 (1849). Hiaticula pusilla (Horsf.), J Hiaticula curonica (Gmel.), Lichtenstein, Nomencl. Av. p. 94 (1854). iEgialites zonatus (Swains.), Hartlaub, Orn. p. 216 (1857). iEgialites pusillus (Horsf.), Swinhoe, Ibis, 1860, p. 63. iEgialites philippinus (Lath.), Swinhoe, Ibis, 1861, p. 342. iEgialitis minutus (Pall.), Jerdon, B. India, ii. p. 641 (1864). Pluvialis fluviatilis (Bechst.), Droste, Vog. Borkum, p. 153 (1869). iEgialitis microrhynchus, Ridgway, Am. Nat. viii. p. 109 (1874). Plates.—Daub. PI. Enl. no. 921; Gould, Birds of Gt. Brit. iv. pi. 42 ; Dresser, Birds of Europe,vii. pi. 524. Literature. Habits.—Seebohm, British Birds, iii. p. —Seebohm, British Birds, pi. 26. fig. 8. The Little Ringed Plover has all the characters of Hodgsons Ringed Plover except Specific a .7777 characters, that the outer tail-feathers are less than a quarter of an inch shorter than the central It is a smaller bird, with a wing about 4| instead of 5^ inches long from the carpal additional character, scapulars the same colour as the back, is sufficient to distinguishit from the only species belonging to the same group which is not excluded by theshape of the tail. The Little Ringed Plover is a summer visitor to the whole of Europe north of thebasin of the Mediterranean and south of about lat. 60°, between which and the Arctic Circleit can only be regarded as an accidental straggler. It is a resident in the basin of theMediterranean. South of the Great Desert it is only known as a winter visitor, extendingon the west coast of Africa as far south as the equator; but on the east coast its winterrange appears to be much greater, extending to Mozambique and the Mauritius. On the s2 Geographi-cal distribu-tion. 132 CHAKADKICS. Seasonalchanges. /m: ft Asiatic
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