KENTISH PLOVER 223 
extending from France on the west side, across to the Black 
Sea, while still further eastward it can be traced over a large 
area of Temperate and Tropical Asia as far south as China. 
On migration in the cold season it reaches the Malay 
Peninsula and India. Its northerly migration-route barely 
touches the Baltic. 
DESCRIPTIVE CHARACTERS. 
PLUMAGE. Adult male nuptial—F orehead, white, with 
a black patch above it; top of head and back of neck, 
brown, tinged with rufous; above the eye there is a white 
stripe and in front of the eye a black stripe; sides and 
back of lower neck, patched with black forming an incom- 
plete ring; breast and abdomen, white; back, scapulars, 
wings, and inner tail - feathers, brown; primaries, dark 
brown; outer tail-feathers, white. 
Adult female nuptial.—No black on the forehead ; neck- 
collar, brown; rest of plumage similar to the male, but 
duller in colour. 
Adult winter, male and female. — Differs from the 
nuptial plumage in the absence of rufous tinge on top of 
head, and the black markings are not developed. 
Immature, male and female. —Resembles the adult winter 
plumage, but the feathers of the back and wings are mar- 
gined with buff. 
Beak. Black. 
FEET. Black. 
TrR1IDES. Brownish-black. 
AVERAGE MEASUREMENTS. 
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Allied Species and Representative Forms.—di. nivosa, 
with white feathers in front of the eye, is the American 
representative. 
