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CHAEADRIID^. 



Europe, 



Asia, 



N. Africa. 



Caspian Sea 

 to S. Africa. 



Females have the collars less cleai'ly defined. 



Young brown where black in adults ; bill black ; legs brown. Length 

 7-7| inches. 



Individuals belonging to a small race have often been recorded as the 

 next species. 



274. Little Einged Plover. JEgialitis curonica (J. F. Gmelin). An 

 extremely rare straggler, though common not far off on the Continent. 



Resembles last, but much smaller, is a more inland bird, and has shaft 

 of first primary luhite ; eyelids golden yellow ; legs and feet pale brown. 

 Length 6^ inches. 



275. Caspian Plover. ^Egialitis asiatica (Pallas). One occurrence : 

 Great Yarmouth (P.Z. S. 1890, p. 461). 



Lores pure white ; legs pale clayey yellow ; axillaries white. 



Male in summer. Above hair-brown ; forehead, throat, lores, stripe 

 above eye, and undei-parts white ; lower throat and breast with band of 

 chestnut, bordered below with black. 



Female. Paler ; breast-band nearly colour of back. 



Male in ivinter. Like female in summer, but breast-band paler and 

 indistinct. 



276. Kentish Plover, ^gialitis cantiana (Latham). Spring to 

 autumn ; breeding in Kent, Sussex, and Channel Islands. 



Bill and legs hlaclc. 



Male. Above hair-brown ; forehead white, black patch on fore crown ; 

 rest of crown and nape buff : black line through eye from bill to ear- 

 coverts ; a black patch on each side of breast, not forming a collar ; rest 

 of underparts white. 



Female. No black on fore crown, but that and crown uniform with 

 the back ; the patch on each side of breast same colour as back. Length 

 6|- inches. 



N America ^77. Killdeer Plover *. JErjialitis vocifera (Linnaeus). Two 



occurrences: Hants, 1857; Scilly Is., Jan. 1885. 



Two black bands across chest ; rump and upper tail-coverts cliestnut- 

 huff'., tail rather long and wedge-shaped. Length 10 inches. 



278. Peewit, Lapwing, or Green Plover. Vanellus vulgaris, Bech- 

 stein. Eesident. 



Hind toe present and well developed. 



Above glossy green ; crown, throat, and breast black; crest of long 

 slender black feathers ; upper and under tail-coverts rw/ow* ; legs flesh- 

 coloured. 



Young. Crest short ; feathers above with buff edges ; legs dark brown. 

 Length 13 inches. 



Properly " Killdee," from the note (Audubon). 



