PLUVIANUS.
Bill about as long as head and very slightly bent ; no hind toe; middle claw slightly broadened ; inner secondaries reaching nearly to end of wing; eggs laid on bare sand, and covered with sand when bird is not incubating.
Pluvianus wgyptius (L.). CROCODILE PLOVER.
? Above slate grey ; crown, face, back, scapulars, and pectoral band greenish black ; superciliary stripes (continued round occiput and meeting) and a broad band across quills white ; underparts salmon buff, axillaries and under wing coverts white.
Bill black. Legs and feet light greyish blue. Wing 127-140. Tarsus 32-35. Bill 17-2o (H.).
Resident.—Ranges across Central Africa east to west and Nile Valley north to Cairo.