

PLOVER. GRALLATORES. SQUATAROLA. 229 



TEMMINCK, a few annually breed upon the northern islands 

 of that kingdom*. It is met with in Egypt, and upon the 

 confines of Asia, in Siberia, &c. The only nest it makes is Nest, &c. 

 a small depression in the ground, lined with a few straws or 

 stems of grass ; in which it lays four eggs, of an oil-green 

 colour, blotched and spotted with black. 



PLATE 35. Fig. 1. represents the bird in the summer plu- 

 mage. 



Forehead, eye-streak, and orbits white. Space between General 

 the bill and eyes, cheeks, sides and fore part of neck, j^ 1 " 1 ^" 

 breast, flanks, and belly, deep black. Abdomen, vent, Summer 

 and thighs, white. Lateral under tail-coverts with ob- P luma S e - 

 lique black bars. Crown of the head hair-brown, with 

 the shafts of the feathers black. Hind part of the 

 neck a mixture of pale hair-brown and white. Back- 

 scapulars and wing-coverts black ; the feathers being 

 tipped and barred with white and yellowish-white. 

 Quills having part of the inner web and the shafts 

 white. Axillary feathers black. Tail-coverts white, 

 barred with hair-brown. Tail the same, except the 

 outer feather on each side, which is nearly white. Bill 

 black. Legs and toes blackish-grey. 



Fig. 2. in the winter plumage. 



Chin white. Neck, breast, and flanks white, marbled Winter 

 with pale ash-grey and hair-brown.' Belly and abdomen p uma e * 

 white. Head, back part of the neck, and the whole of 

 the upper parts of the body hair-brown, having the 

 shaft of each feather darker, and being margined and 

 spotted with greyish- white, or pale ash-grey. Under 

 wing-coverts, or axillary feathers, black. 



* I have occasionally met with one or two of these birds upon the Fern 

 Islands in June, but could never detect any of their young. These indi- 

 viduals, probably from some accidental cause, had been unequal to the 

 usual migration. 



