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CHARADRIUS CANTIANUS. THE KENTISH 

 RING-PLOVER. 



KENTISH PLOVER. 



Charadrius cantianus. Lath. Ind. Omith. Supplt. II. 316. 



Kentish Plover. Mont. Ornith. Diet. Supplt. 



Pluvier a collier interrompu. Charadrius cantianus. Temm. Man. d'Ornith. 



II. 544. 

 Charadrius Alexandrinus. Kentish Plover. Flem. Brit. Anirn. 114. 

 Kentish Plover. Charadrius cantianus. Selby, Illustr. Brit. Ornith. II. 243. 

 Charadrius cantianus. Kentish Plover. Jenyns, Brit. Vert. Anim. 180. 

 .ZEgialites Cantianus. Bonap. Comp. List, 45. 



Length nearly seven inches ; bill seven-twelfths, more than 

 half the length of the head ; wings shorter than the tail. 

 Adult with the upper parts light brownish-grey ; the forehead 

 ivith tivo bands, a white and a black, the hind part of the 

 head light brownish-red ; the lorcd space and a band behind 

 the eye black ; the throat and a band crossing the hind neck 

 ivhite ; a large patch of black on each side of the lower part 

 of the neck; bill black, the lower mandible flesh-coloured at 

 the base ; feet dusky ; claws black. Young without black on 

 the head ; the bands on its sides and the patches on the neck 

 brown ; the feathers of the upper parts margined with 

 ivhitish. 



Male in Summer. — This pretty little Ring-Plover is 

 considerably inferior in size to the common species, already 

 described, from which it is easily distinguished by its having 

 merely two patches of black in the place of an entire ring of 

 that colour on the neck. It is also of a more slender form, 

 and has the wings shorter than the tail, although otherwise 

 its proportions are nearly the same. The body is ovate, the 

 neck short, the head rather large and ovate, with the front 



