Genus AEGIALITIS.
SAND-PLOVERS, DOTTERELS, and RINGED PLOVERS.
No hind toe. Tarsi reticulated. Of small size. Often with black collar. Sexes alike. First quill longest. Upper plumage unspotted brown; below chiefly white in breeding season, the amount of black not exceeding a pectoral band. Almost cosmopolitan.
(i.) No white ring round the neck.
BookTitle:
Game, Shore And Water Birds Of India
Reference:
Le Messurier, Augustus. Game, Shore, and Water Birds of India Fourth Edition, 1904.
Title in Book:
Genus AEGIALITIS
Year:
1904
Page No:
155
M_ID:
4046
M_SN:
Charadrius
Volume:
4th ed.
Term name:
id:
12880
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