. The geographical distribution of the family Charadriidae, or the plovers, sandpipers, snipes, and their allies . rica. There seems to be no reliable evidence of the occurrence of the White-breasted Ploverin East Africa north of the Line. Heuglin obtained a single very bleached example on theArabian coast of the Red Sea, which was probably a diseased example of C. cantianusthat was unable to moult in spring, and consequently did not migrate. Blanford recordsit as common at Zulla on the Abyssinian coast in June; but the only example in the BritishMuseum is one from Massowa, which belongs to th
. The geographical distribution of the family Charadriidae, or the plovers, sandpipers, snipes, and their allies . rica. There seems to be no reliable evidence of the occurrence of the White-breasted Ploverin East Africa north of the Line. Heuglin obtained a single very bleached example on theArabian coast of the Red Sea, which was probably a diseased example of C. cantianusthat was unable to moult in spring, and consequently did not migrate. Blanford recordsit as common at Zulla on the Abyssinian coast in June; but the only example in the BritishMuseum is one from Massowa, which belongs to the dwarf form of C. cantianus. Jessebrought home no examples of C. marginatus, but found C. pecuarius in small flocks atZoulla on the Red Sea in June, which was probably the species which Blanford mistook forC. marginatus (Finsch, Trans. Zool. Soc. vii. p. 297). Fischer obtained examples in 1 This bird is described from an example in the Smithsonian Institution at Washington, labelled ChiliS. Abri. There is no history attached to it, and the locality may fairly be assumed to be some obscure townin S. Africa. s. IrLh . .CHARADRIUS IENELLUS MADAGASCAR RINGED PLOVER. Ha, unp. CHAEADEIUS. 163 Masai-Land (Journ. Orn. 1884, p. 178), which appear to be the same species as examples inthe British Museum from Lake Nyassa and Tete. Examples from West Africa from theGold Coast are very similar. Examples from the Cape Colony, where it is found both onthe coast and on any extensive inland pieces of water, are somewhat different; they arerather larger in size, paler in colour, less suffused with rusty red, both on the upper andunder parts, have darker and thicker legs, and have the nuchal collar white instead of rusty,which makes it much more conspicuous, and have the last three 1 secondaries (next thetertials) pure white. Examples from Angola and the coast of Damara-Land on the oneside, and from the coast of Natal and Madagascar on the other, are, however, so com-pletely
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