f7 6 LONG LEGGED PLOVER. Class II. 



zoo. Long Le grand Chevalier 4'Jta- Sibb. Scot. 19. Tab. 11. 13. 



Legged. ^ e - Be/on Porir. d y Oy~ L' EchafTc. BriJ/onav.V. 33, 



featix, 53. Tab. $. fig. 1. 



Aldr. av. 111. 176. Charadrius himantopus. Lin. 



Ge/ner ai>. 54.6. fyft. 255. Scopoli, No. 148. 



Himantopus. //7/. 0/7/. 297. Br, Zool. 128. «^/. plates. 



Rati Jyn. av. 106. 



np HIS is the mofi fingular of the Britijh birds. 

 -*■ The legs are of a length, and weaknefs great- 

 ly difproportioned to the body, which is inferior 

 in fize to that of the green plover: this, added to 

 the defect of the back toe, muft render its paces 

 Descrip. aukward and infirm. The naked part of the thigh 

 is three inches and a half long-, the legs four and a 

 half: thefe, and the feet are of a blood red: the 

 bill is black, above two inches long. The length 

 from its tip to the end of the tail is thirteen inches : 

 the breadth from tip to tip of the wing twenty- 

 nine inches : the forehead, and whole under fide 

 of the body are white : the crown of the head, 

 back, and wings black : on the hind part of the 

 neck are a few black fpots : the tail is of a greyifh. 

 white: the wings when clofed extend far beyond it. 

 Thefe birds are extremely rare in thefe iflands : Sir 

 Robert Sibbald records a brace that were fhot in 

 Scotland: another was fhot a few years ago on Stan- 

 ton- Har court common near Oxford^ and we have feen 



them 



