Part 22

Sooty-black; bill, feet, eye red; f., sim. Shellfish, worms.

1 1

=79 Red-kneed Dottrel=, Sandpiper (e), Erythrogonys cinctus, A.

Mig. r. muddy river banks 7.5

Head, upper-neck, chest, black; throat, sides of neck, abdomen, under base tail white; back olive-brown; middle tail feathers olive, rest white; thigh, knee pink-red; f., sim. Insects.

2 4

=80 Spurwing Plover= (Wattled), Alarm-Bird, Lobivanellus lobatus, A., T. [~80 Lobibyx novae hollandiae.]

Stat. c. plains, swamps 14

"One of most beautiful of plovers;" crown black; face, hind-neck, rump, under white; upper brown; tail white tipped black; wattle on face lemon-yellow; spur on shoulder; f., sim. Insects.

1 1

=81* Black-breasted Plover= (Stubble, Flock, Plain), Zonifer tricolor, A., T.

Stat. v.c. plains 10.5

Upper brown; crown, line on face down to broad band on chest, wing-quills black; line through eye, throat, abdomen white; tail white barred black; spot at base of upper-bill blood-red; f., spot lighter-red. Insects.

1 1

=82 Gray Plover= (Black-bellied), Gray Sandpiper (e), Maycock, Squatarola helvetica, cos. 82 [~Squatarola squatarola.]

Mig. r. muddy shores, rivers 12

Crown, upper, wings, olive-brown mottled white; wing-quills blackish-brown; rump white; tail white barred light olive; face, under white, breast tinged buff; bill, feet blackish; small hind toe; brighter in far North; f., sim. Insects, worms.

1 2

=83 Lesser Golden Plover= (Pacific, American, Australian, Eastern), Charadrius dominicus, almost cos. [~83-89 Genus Charadrius.]

Mig. flocks, r. plains near sea, rivers 9

Upper, tail dark-brown marked whitish; under mottled buff, brown, white; line over eye, throat whitish; no hind toe; brighter in far north; f., sim. Insects, worms.

4 8

=84 Double-banded Dottrel= (Banded), Pohowera, Ochthodromus bicinctus, A., T., Norfolk Is., Lord Howe Is., N.Z. [~83-89 Genus Charadrius.]

Mig. c. shores, grass 6.5

Upper brownish-gray; under white; black band on chest; chestnut band on abdomen; forehead white; black line through eye; eyelash scarlet; no hind toe; f., duller. Insects, worms.

=85 Oriental Dottrel= (Eastern, Asiatic, Mongolian), O. veredus, Mongolia, China to A. [~83-89 Genus Charadrius.]

Mig. v.r. sandy coasts 9.5

Indistinct mottled plumage; upper brown and buff; throat lighter; abdomen white; slender bill dark-brown; legs long, slender; no hind toe; f., sim. Insects, worms.