. The geographical distribution of the family Charadriidae, or, The plovers, sandpipers, snipes, and their allies . Shore birds. 166 CHARADRIUS PERONI. MALAY SAND-PLOFEB. Diagnosis. CharadritjSj subgen. AUffialophili minores, pedibus pallidis : infra nucbse coUare album fascia aut nigr^ (in aut ferrugine^ (in juv.)^ ssepe pectore conjunct^,. Synonymy. Literature. Specific characters. Variations. In this species, as in C. melodus, the black nuchal collar sometimes meets across the breast, but it is not known that this peculiarity has any geographical significance. Charadri
. The geographical distribution of the family Charadriidae, or, The plovers, sandpipers, snipes, and their allies . Shore birds. 166 CHARADRIUS PERONI. MALAY SAND-PLOFEB. Diagnosis. CharadritjSj subgen. AUffialophili minores, pedibus pallidis : infra nucbse coUare album fascia aut nigr^ (in aut ferrugine^ (in juv.)^ ssepe pectore conjunct^,. Synonymy. Literature. Specific characters. Variations. In this species, as in C. melodus, the black nuchal collar sometimes meets across the breast, but it is not known that this peculiarity has any geographical significance. Charadrius peroni, S. Miiller, Temm. fide Schlegel, Mus. Pays-Bas, Cur sores, p. 33 (1865). jiEgialites perronii {Temm.), Swinhoe, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1870, p. 139. Plates.—Walden, Trans. Zool. Soc. viii. pi. x. fig. 3. Habits.—Undescribed. Eggs, in the British Museum, collected by Low on Labuan, measure 1"3 by '9 inch; the markings resemble those of typical eggs of C. cantianus, but on a cream-coloured ground. The Malay Sand-Plover is perfectly distinct from any of its allies. It belongs to the section of the genus which I have characterized as ^gialopUli minores, and when adult may be distinguished from all its allies by its combination of the two characters, hlack nuchal collar wApale legs and feet. There is no difference between the plumage of winter and that of summer, nor is it known that adult males differ from adult females; but in young in first plumage the black on the crown, lores, ear-coverts, breast, and back is all replaced by rust-colour, causing it to resemble C. nivosus or C. dealbatus. The two latter species being, however, only resident forms of the migratory C. cantianus, have not yet acquired the rounded wings of resident birds. In all three forms of C. cantianus the distance from the carpal joint to the end of the longest primary-coverts is greater than that. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally en
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