180 AVES GRALLATORES. [CHARADRIUS- 



DIMENS. Entire length five inches : length of the bill (from the fore- 

 head) five lines and a half; of the tarsus eleven lines and a half; of the 

 tail two inches four lines ; from the carpus to the end of the wing four 

 inches four lines. 



DESCRIPT. (Adult male and female.) " Bill hlack ; a band of the 

 same colour passing from the bill to the eye, and extending over the 

 ear-coverts ; the forehead pure white, above which on the crown a black 

 band passes from eye to eye ; the occiput gray, beneath which a white 

 circle spreads from the throat round the neck; this is succeeded by a 

 black band, broad on the chest, but narrowing until it meets at the back 

 of the neck; the whole of the upper plumage, with the exception of the 

 rump, which is white, of a fine brownish gray ; under surface white ; 

 feet and legs flesh-colour ; irides hazel. (Young.) Wants the black collar 

 and facial markings, the crown of the head and face being brownish 

 gray ; in every other respect resembles the adult, except that a brownish 

 tint pervades the whole of the upper plumage, and that every feather is 

 edged with a lighter margin. (Egg.) Yellowish white, marked with 

 blotches of black and brown." GOULD. 



A single individual of this species, a young bird of the year, has been 

 recently killed at Shoreham in Sussex. It is now in the possession of 

 Mr Henry Doubleday of Epping. No other has hitherto occurred in 

 Britain, although from its close resemblance to the C. Hiaticula, it is 

 possible that the species may have been overlooked. Common on some 

 parts of the Continent. According to Temminck, resorts by preference 

 more to the banks of rivers than to the shores of the sea. Food and 

 nidiftcation similar to those of the Ringed Plover. 



165. C. Cantianus, Lath. (Kentish Plover.) Upper 

 parts cinereous brown : a large patch of black on each side 

 of the breast : bill and feet black. 



CJ. Cantianus, Temm. Man. d'Orn. torn. n. p. 544. Kentish 

 Plover, Leivin, Brit. Birds, vol. v, pi. 85. Lath. Syn. Supp. n. 

 p. 316. Mont. Orn. Diet. Supp. Selb. Illust. vol. n. p. 243. 

 pi. 38. f. 3. 



DiMEif s. Entire length six inches ten lines : length of the bill (from 

 the forehead) seven lines and a half, (from the gape) nine lines ; of the 

 tarsus one inch and half a line ; of the tail two inches one line ; from the 

 carpus to the end of the wing four inches three lines : breadth, wings 

 extended, thirteen inches four lines. 



DESCRIPT. (Male.) Forehead, a broad streak over each eye, a ring 

 round the neck, and all the under parts, pure white : space between the 

 eye and the bill, and ear-coverts, black ; an angular black patch imme- 

 diately behind the forehead, advancing towards the crown; a larger patch 

 of the same colour on each side of the breast : crown of the head, and 

 nape of the neck, light brownish red ; rest of the upper parts cinereous 

 brown: shafts of the primaries white: the two outermost tail-feathers 

 white ; the next whitish ; the rest cinereous brown : bill and feet black. 

 (Female.) The white on the forehead of less extent ; behind it a small 

 transverse black streak instead of the large angular spot ; space between 

 the eye and the bill, ear-coverts, and the patch on each side of the breast, 

 cinereous brown : the red on the head and nape tinged with ash-gray. 

 (Young before the first moult.) The white on the forehead, above the 

 yes, and across the nape of the neck, very indistinct : no black any 



