"Adult male.--Above light ashy brown, darker on rump and central upper tail-coverts; sides of rump and lateral upper tail-coverts pure white; wing-coverts like the back, with a band of dark sepia-brown along marginal coverts; greater coverts broadly tipped with white; alula and primary-coverts dark brown, with white tips, the shafts conspicuously white; inner primaries white toward base of outer web; secondaries dark brown, white at ends of outer web, increasing in extent toward the innermost; long inner secondaries like the back; four center tail-feathers dark brown, next pair smoky brown, next pair white with a little smoky brown at the ends, remainder pure white; crown rufous, with a nuchal collar of pure white, this collar followed by a broad black band on hind neck overspreading mantle; forehead white, reaching to above eye and separated from rufous of crown by a tolerably broad band of black; a distinct loral streak of black; sides of face and ear-coverts with a black band along upper margin of the latter; cheeks and under surface pure white, with a large black patch on each side of fore neck; under wing-coverts and axillars white; quills below ashy gray. 'Bill black, orange at base; feet gray, claws black; iris warm chocolate-brown; orbital ring pure orange.' (Everett.) Length, about 150; culmen, 16; wing, 95; tail, 39; tarsus, 27; middle toe with claw, 20. "Adult female.--Similar to the male, but without the black band across forehead; black on mantle and hind neck represented by dark brown mixed with rufous; black patch at the side of fore neck replaced by dark brown mixed with rufous, with a tinge of the latter color spreading across fore neck. 'Bill black, base yellowish; feet purplish gray; iris dark brown.' (Everett.) Length, 140; culmen, 16; wing, 102; tail, 38; tarsus, 27. "In some specimens, apparently very old males, the black band is continued right across the fore neck. "Young birds resemble the adults, but have no facial black markings or any black or rufous on the mantle or sides of the chest, the whole of the upper surface being uniform ashy brown, with broad sandy-buff margins." (Sharpe.) This little plover differs from Ægialitis dubia and Æ. alexandrina in having a comparatively stout bill. Whitehead took three eggs of the Malay sand-plover at Cape Engaño, Luzon, on May 26, 1895. They are described as follows: "Shape short ovate. Ground-color pale cream; the whole shell with small blotches, streaks, and zigzag pencillings of rich sepia and pale lavender. Measurements 30 mm. by 22 mm. The three eggs were deposited on the bare sand among sea-drift and only a few yards above high-water mark. The female was shot. On the same day young plovers nearly ready to fly were captured." (Grant and Whitehead.) 97. ÆGIALITIS ALEXANDRINA (Linnæus). KENTISH PLOVER.