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which is white, with a black spot in the centre of the 

 inner web. Legs and toes gallstone yellow. Bill 

 orange at the base, with the tip black. Irides brown. 

 The female is similar to the male bird, except that the 

 black collar and coronal band are not so intense in co- 

 lour. 



Fig. 2. The young of the year, killed in October. 



Upper mandible brown at the base ; under one pale orange- Winter 

 yellow. From the base of the bill to the eye is a dusky 

 streak. Forehead dirty white. Crown of the head 

 hair-brown, and without the black band that distin- 

 guishes the adult. Throat, and ring round the neck, 

 white, tinged with yellow. Gorget wood-brown. Back 

 and wing-coverts pale hair-brown, tinged with grey, the 

 tips and sides of the feathers finely margined with sul- 

 lied white. Under parts white. Tail as in the adult 

 bird. Legs and toes wax-yellow. 



KENTISH PLOVER. 



CHARADRIUS CANTIANUS, Lath. 

 PLATE XXXVIII. FIG. 3. 



Charadrius cantianus, Lath. Ind. Orn. Sup. 66. 1 Temm. Man. d'Ornith. 



2. 544 Steph. Shaw's Zool. 11. 474. 

 Charadrius Alexandrinus, Hassel H. 255. 30. 



Charadrius albifrons, Meyer, Tasschenb. Deut. 2. 323. sp. 5 Wagler, 

 Syst. Av. 1. sp. 32. 



Charadrius littoralis, Bechst. Naturg. Deut. 4. 430. t. 23. f. 1. and 2. 

 Pluvier a collier interompu, Temm. Man. d'Ornith. 2. 544. 

 Kentish Plover, Lewin's Br. Birds, t. 185 Lath. Syn. Sup. 2. 316. 3 



Mont. Ornith. Diet. Sup Shaw's Zool 11. 474. 



THIS species, which is rather inferior even in size to the 

 preceding one, was first named by Dr LATHAM, in the Sup- 

 plement to the " Index Ornithologicus," and was described 

 by him at greater length in the second supplementary vo- 



