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14j Wils. VII, lix, 5. (The Golden Plover.) Blackish j the edges 

 of its feathers dotted with yellowj white belly. It is the most 

 common of all, and is found throughout the whole globe. The 

 north produces one which scarcely differs from it except in its 

 black throat; it is the Cha?'. apricarius, Edw. 140j Naum. II, f. 

 155 Wils. VII, Ivii, 4. Some authors assert it is the young of 

 the other. 



Char. morinelluSf L.; Le Guignard^ Enl. 832; Naum. 12, f. 

 16, 17. (The Dotterel.) Grey or blackish; feathers edged with 

 fulvous-grey; a white streak over the eye; breast and upper part 

 of the belly of a bright red; lower part of the belly white. 



Char, hiaticula, h.} Pluvier a collier^ Enl. 920; Frisch, 214j 

 Brit. Zool. pi. P; Wils. V, xxxvii, 2. (The Ring Plover.) 

 Grey above; white beneath; a black collar round the lower part 

 of the neck, very broad in front; the head variegated with black 

 and white; bill, yellow and black. Three or four species or 

 races are found in France differing in size, and in the distribu- 

 tion of the colours on the head.(l) This same distribution, with 

 but little variation, is found in several species foreign to Eu- 

 rope. (2) 

 Many Plovers have scutellated legs; they form a small division, 

 most of its species having spines to their wings, or fleshy wattles 

 on the head; some of them have both these characters.(3) 



Vanellus, Bechst. Tringa, Lin. (4) 

 The Lapwings have the same kind of beak as the Plovers, and are 



(1) Ch. m{nor,Meyer, Enl. 921; Wils. VII, lix, 3; Naum. 15, f. 19, or Ch. cu- 

 ronicus. Lath., with an entirely black beak; Ch. cantianus. Lath., or albifrons, 

 Meyer, of which the Ch. aegyptius may possibly be the female. Its collar is inter- 

 rupted. 



(2) Char, vodferus, Enl. 286; Wils. VII, lix, 6; Char, indicus. Lath.; Char. 

 Jlzarai, T., Col. 184; Char, melanops, Vieill., Gal. 235, or Ch. nigrifrons, Cuv. 

 Col. 47, 1; Char. Wilsonii, Wils. IX, Ixiii, 5. Add, of closely allied species, 

 although without collars: Ch. pecuarius, T. Col. 183; Ch. nivifrons, Cuv.; Char, 

 ruficapillus, T. Col. 47, 2; Ch. monachus, Tern.; Ch. griseus, Lath. 



Add Ch. semipalmatus, Wils. VIII, pi. lix, f. 3; Ch. melodus, Wils. V, pi. 

 xxvii, f. 3. Am. Ed. 



(3) Species with unarmed, scutellated feet: Char, coronatus, Enl. 800; Ch, me- 

 lanocephalus, Enl. 918, S.ivigny, Egypt., Ois , pi. vi, f. 4, of which Vieillot makes 

 his genus Pluviantts, Gal. pi. xxiii its beak is somewhat stouter than tlie others. 

 Armed species: Char, spinosus, Enl. 801; Ch. cayanus, Enl. 833. Species with 

 wattles: Char, pikatus, Enl. 834; Ch. bilobus, Enl. 880. 



The Char, cristatus, Edw. 47, appears to be the same as the spinosu^. 



(4) Tringa, or rather Trynga, the Greek name of a bird the size of a Thrush, 

 which frequents the shores of rivers, and is constantly moving its tail, Arist. It 



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