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GEALLATOEES, OE WADING BIEDS. 



cure tlie jaundice. All that was necessary was for the sick person 

 to look fixecUj^ at the bird's ejes, with a firm faith in the success 

 of the experiment ; under these conditions the bird was obliging 



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Fig. 150. — Ringed Dotterel [Charadrms hiaticula, Selby). 



enough to relieve him of his malady. This superstitious idea 

 has departed to join all the rest of the medical opinions of the 

 middle ages. 



Fig. 151. — Golden Plover {Charadrius pluvialis, Linn.). 



The Kentish Plover {Charadrius cantianus, Latham) is thus 

 named on account of its collar being divided into two parts ; it is 

 rather smaller than the last-named bird, and is found in Euroi^e 

 and Asia. 



The Golden Plover {Pluvialis aurea), Fig. 151, is the size of 



