(AZARA'S SAND-PLOVER.)
+Charadrius azaræ+, _Burm. La-Plata Reise_, ii. p. 501. +Ægialitis
collaris+, _Scl. et Salv. Nomencl._ p. 143; _Durnford, Ibis_,
1878, p. 67 (Buenos Ayres); _id. Ibis_, 1880, p. 424 (Tucuman);
_White, P. Z. S._ 1882, p. 628 (Buenos Ayres); _Barrows, Auk_,
1884, p. 313 (Entrerios). +Charadrius collaris+, _Seebohm,
Plovers_, p. 173. "+Cinereous Plover+," _Hudson, P. Z. S._ 1871,
p. 261.
_Description._--Above brown; front white; fore half of head and line
between bill and eyes black; top of head and sides of neck tinged
with rusty red; primaries blackish with bright shafts and slight
white edgings; tail with the central rectrices blackish brown,
lateral rectrices white: beneath white; pectoral collar black; bill
black; feet yellow: whole length 6·0 inches, wing 4·1, tail 2·0.
_Female_ similar.
[Illustration: AZARA'S SAND-PLOVER. (Seebohm's 'Plovers,' p. 173.)]
_Hab._ South and Central America.
Azara's Sand-Plover is distributed all over South America east of the
Andes, and has been obtained by Mr. Salvin in Guatemala. It is a close
ally of the Kentish Plover of Europe (_Æ. cantiana_), but has the black
pectoral band complete in the adult form.
This Plover appears to be an inland species. Durnford observed it in
October, December, and February in the neighbourhood of Buenos Ayres, on
"dry sandy ground," frequenting the same sort of places as the Common
Ring-Plover in England. He also met with it during his last journey to
Tucuman, and Mr. Barrows found it "rather abundant" in small flocks all
over the open country in Entrerios.