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brown and blackish-brown. They are larger than 

 those of the Lapwing, not quite so pyriform, and 

 lack the olive tinge in their ground colour. The 

 birds also nest, as a rule, on higher and wilder 

 ground. Size about 2'07 by 1-4 in. 



Time. May and June. 



Remarks. Eesident, but subject to local and 

 partial migration. Notes, tliii, and taludl, taludl, 

 taludl, the first note being uttered with low and 

 melancholy deliberation and the latter hurriedly. 

 Local and other names : Yellow Plover, Whistling 

 Plover. Does not sit very close as a rule ; how- 

 ever, I have known the bird do so before incubation 

 was far advanced, and feign a broken wing in order 

 to decoy the intruder away. 



PLOVER, GREAT. See CURLEW, STONE. 



PLOVER, KENTISH. 



Description of Parent Birds. Length about seven 

 inches. Bill shortish, nearly straight, and black. 

 Irides brown. Forehead and a line running over 

 the eye and ear-coverts white ; middle crown black ; 

 back of head yellowish-brown. A black streak 

 commences at the base of the beak, and passing 

 through the eye, includes the ear- coverts; nape 

 white ; back, wings, and upper tail- coverts ash- 

 brown, with exception of the wing-primaries, which 

 are dull black, edged with white on some of the 

 outside shafts ; tail- quills ash-brown towards the 

 base, dusky black towards the tip, and white on the 

 outsides ; chin, cheeks, and sides of upper part of 

 neck white ; sides of lower part of neck, just in 



