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CHARADRIUS HIATICULA. THE COMMON 

 RING-PLOVER. 



RING DOTTEREL. RING PLOVER. SAND LARK. SANDY LAVEROCK. SANDY 

 LOO. DULWILLY. STONEHATCU. STONE PLOVER. BOTHAG. 



Fig. 11. 



Charadrius Hiaticula. Linn. Syst. Nat. I. 253. 



Charadrius Hiaticula. Lath. Ind. Ornitli. II. 743. 



Ringed Plover. Mont. Ornith. Diet, and Supplt. 



Grand Pluvier a collier. Charadrius Hiaticula Tcmm. Man. d'Omith. II. 



539. 

 Charadrius Hiaticula. Ringed Plover. Flem. Brit. Anim. 113. 

 Ringed Plover. Charadrius Hiaticula. Selby, Illustr. Brit. Ornith. II. 240. 

 Charadrius Hiaticula. Ringed Plover. Jen. Brit. Vert. Anim. 179. 

 iEgialites Hiaticula. Bonap. Corup. List. 45. 



Length about eight inches, bill seven-twelfths, half as long 

 as the head, wings and tail of equal length. Adult with the 

 upper parts greyish-brown; the forehead with two bands, a 

 white and a black; a dark brown band tinder the eye; a ring 

 of white including the throat, succeeded by a broader ring of 

 brownish-black; bill orange at the base, black at the end; 

 feet orange, claivs black. Young without the black band on 

 the forehead, the other dark bands lighter, the feathers of the 

 upper parts margined with pale brownish-red, the bill entirely 

 black, the feet dull greenish-yellow, the elates black. 



