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PLUVIALIS MORINELLUS. THE DOTTEREL 

 PLOVER. 



Charadrius Morinellus. Linn. Syst. Nat. I. 254. 



Charadrius Morinellus. Lath. Ind. Ornith. II. 747. 



Dottrel. Mont. Ornith. Diet. 



Pluvier Guignard. Charadrius Morinellus. Temm. Man. d'Orn. II. 537. 



Charadrius Morinellus. Dottrel. Flem. Brit. Anim. 113. 



Dotterel. Charadrius Morinellus. Selb. Illustr. Brit. Ornith. I. 236. 



Charadrius Morinellus. Dotterel Plover. Jen. Brit. Vert. An. 178. 



Eudromias Morinella. Bonap. Comp. List, 45. 



Bill slender, considerably shorter than the head; inner 

 secondaries extremely elongated. In winter, the top of the 

 head dark brown, laterally margined with reddish-white ; 

 upper parts greenish-brown, the feathers edged with pale 

 red ; forehead and checks whitish, streaked with dusky ; fore- 

 neck brownish-grey ; a transverse band of white at its lower 

 part; breast brownish-red. In summer, the top of the head 

 broivnish-black, laterally margined with pure white, of which 

 colour are the forehead and cheeks; upper parts greyish- 

 brown, the feathers edged with red; fore-neck brownish-grey ; 

 a double transverse band, black and white, at its loiver part ; 

 breast bright red; part of abdomen black, Young with the 

 top of the head, and tipper paints of the body, dark brown, 

 edged with buff-orange ; forehead, band over the eyes, throat, 

 and sides of the face cream-yellow, streaked with greyish- 

 broivn ; sides of the neck and flanks buff -orange, streaked 

 tvith dusky ; breast pale reddish-grey, abdomen white. 



Male in Summer. — This beautiful bird is considerably 

 smaller than the Golden Plover, which it clearly resembles 

 in form, but with the tail somewhat longer and more rounded, 

 and the inner secondaries extremely elongated. The body 

 is moderately full, the neck of ordinary length; the head 



