"Young.--Differs considerably from the adult. General color olive-brown above, the feathers with sandy-rufous margins; crown bright rufous; under surface entirely white." (Sharpe.) Suborder CURSORII. Family GLAREOLIDÆ. Bill short; culmen curved; gape deeply cleft, its width greater than length of culmen; wings long and pointed reaching beyond the forked tail; tarsus twice the length of culmen from base and more than middle toe with claw; claw of middle toe half the length of its toe and pectinate on its inner edge. Genus GLAREOLA Brisson, 1760. Characters same as those given for the Family. 128. GLAREOLA ORIENTALIS Leach. EASTERN SWALLOW PLOVER. Glareola orientalis Leach, Trans. Linn. Soc. (1820), 132, pl. 13; Oates, Birds Brit. Burmah (1883), 2, 361; Cat. Birds' Eggs (1902), 2, 78; Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1896), 24, 58; Hand-List (1899), 1, 171; Blanford, Fauna Brit. Ind. Bds. (1898), 4, 214 fig. 48 (head); McGregor and Worcester, Hand-List (1906), 30. Calayan (McGregor); Luzon (Steere Exp., McGregor); Negros (Layard); Palawan (Whitehead, White). China, eastern Siberia, Indian Peninsula, Indo-Chinese countries; in winter Malay Peninsula and Archipelago to Australia. Adult male and female.--Above nearly uniform earthy brown; tail-coverts white; a narrow line below eye white; lores black, this color continued in a line below eyes to ear-coverts and across breast and bordered in front with white; sides of neck earthy brown, usually extending across fore breast; chin, throat, and breast light rufous or ocherous-brown; abdomen, flanks, and under tail-coverts white; primaries, secondaries, and alula blackish; axillars and under wing-coverts bright chestnut; white at base of tail gradually increasing in extent from the central pair of rectrices outward; tips brown. Bill black, scarlet posteriorly of nostrils; inside of mouth dull salmon-pink; iris brown; legs and nails dark seal-brown. Length of male, 230; wing, 182; tail, 78; exposed culmen, 14; tarsus, 34; middle toe with claw, 29. Female, wing, 185; tail, 72; exposed culmen, 15; tarsus, 34. A young female from Calayan, November 11, 1903, resembles the adult but the black and white lines across breast are wanting, being replaced by numerous blackish brown dashes a few of which are scattered forward onto throat. "Young.--Differs from the adult in having the entire upper surface blackish, mottled with broad edgings of sandy buff to all the feathers, especially the quills and tail-feathers; head mottled like the back; cheeks and under surface of body isabelline-buff; fore neck and chest mottled with black, the feathers with a broad subterminal bar or heart-shaped spot of black.