Charadrius veredus Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc. (1848), 38.
Ochthodromus veredus Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1896), 24,
232; Hand-List (1899), 1, 153; McGregor and Worcester, Hand-List
(1906), 23.
Palawan (Platen, Bourns & Worcester, White). Mongolia and China,
in winter to the Moluccas and Australia.
"Adult in summer plumage.--Similar to O. geoffroyi, but with a longer
and more slender bill, and distinguished by its smoky brown axillars,
under wing-coverts, and quill-linings. Upper parts uniform brown,
with slightly indicated rufous edgings to many of the feathers;
alula, primary-coverts, and quills dark brown, first primary only
having a white shaft, and no white present on inner webs of quills;
secondaries uniform dark brown, with an obsolete white fringe to the
tips; innermost secondaries like back; tail-feathers brown, with white
tips and a subterminal shade of darker brown, outer feather white
along outer web; crown brown like back, slightly washed with rufous,
as also the hind neck, where, however, there is no distinct collar
as in O. geoffroyi; forehead white to middle of eye; eyebrow, sides
of face, and throat white; lower throat, fore neck, and chest bright
chestnut, extending down the sides of the upper breast and followed
by a horseshoe mark of black; breast, abdomen, and under tail-coverts
pure white; under wing-coverts and axillars dark smoky brown, with
ashy whitish tips; quill-lining also dark smoky brown. 'Bill deep
olive-brown, blacker on the terminal portion; feet light brownish
flesh-color; toes washed with gray, blackish on joints; claws black;
eyelids grayish black.' (Swinhoe.) Length, 215; culmen, 25; wing,
165; tail, 61; tarsus, 44.
"Adult in winter plumage.--Differs from the summer plumage in wanting
the rufous chest-band. Above dark brown, including crown; forehead
and eyebrow isabelline white, hinder part of the latter shaded with
sandy buff, which color also pervades the sides of face and of neck,
and forms a faint collar round hind neck; throat isabelline white;
lower throat, fore neck, and chest pale brown; remainder of under
surface white; under wing-coverts, axillars, and quill-lining smoky
brown." (Sharpe.)
Genus ÆGIALITIS Boie, 1822.
This genus includes a number of small plovers not differing greatly
from Charadrius except in size and colors; the plumage is never spotted
and, with the exception of a more or less complete dusky band across
the chest, the lower parts are pure white.
Species.
a1. A black or rusty band across fore breast.
b1. Shafts of primaries dark, excepting of the first which may be
partly or entirely white. ... dubia (p. 109)
b2. Shafts of all the primaries white. ... peroni (p. 111)
a2. A smoky brown band on sides of fore breast or faintly across
breast. ... alexandrina (p. 112)