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CHARADRIUS MINOR. THE LITTLE RING- 

 PLOVER. 



LITTLE RINGED PLOVER. LITTLE RIXG DOTTEREL. 



Petit Pluvier a collier. Charadrius minor. Temm. Man. d'Ornith. II. 542. 



Charadrius minor. Little Ringed Plover. Jen. Brit. Vert. Anim. 179. 



Charadrius minor. Little Ping Dotterel. Gould, Birds of Europe. 

 JEgialites minor. Bonap. Comp. List, 45. 



Length about six inches and a half; bill seven-twelfths, 

 more than half the length of the head; wings shorter than 

 the tail. Adult with the upper parts gregish-brown; the 

 forehead with two bands, a white and a black ; the hind part 

 of the head light brownish-greg ; the loral space and a band 

 under the ege and including the ear-coverts black; the throat 

 and a band crossing the hind-neck ichite, succeeded bg a ring 

 of brownish-black, narrowed behind; bill entirely black; feet 

 getto wish-flesh-coloured ; claws black. Young with the dark 

 markings on the head and neck brown; the feathers of the 

 upper parts margined with light red ; the base of the bill 

 pale gelloivish. 



Or this species it appears that only a single individual is 

 recorded as having heen obtained in Britain. That indi- 

 vidual I have not seen, nor can I procure specimens for 

 description ; so that, on this occasion, I am obliged to have 

 recourse to the description and figures given by Messrs. 

 Temminck, Jenyns, Gould, and Yarrell. 



Male in Summer. — The form of this bird is the same as 

 that of the Kentish Ring-Plover, which it nearly equals in 

 size; but in colour it more resembles the Common Ring- 

 Plover. The bill is black in its whole length ; the iris 



