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mily try to decoy intruders by feigning lameness, but this 

 species more conspicuously than most. 



Ring Dotterel. Ring Plover. Stone Plover. Sand Lark. 

 Sandy Laverock. Sandy Loo. Dulwilly. 



Charadrius Hiaticula, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. 253. Chara- 

 drius Hiaticula, Lath. Ind. Ornith. ii. 74*3. Charadrius Hia- 

 ticula, Temm. Man. d'Ornith.ii. 539. Charadrius Hiaticula, 

 Ringed Sand-Plover, MacGillivray, Brit. Birds, iv. 



171. CHARADRIUS CANTIANUS. KENTISH SAND-PLOVER. 



Length nearly seven inches, bill seven-twelfths, more than 

 half the length of the head, wings shorter than the tail. 

 Adult with the upper parts light greyish-brown ; the forehead 

 with two bands, a white and a black, the hind part of the 

 head light brownish-red ; the loral space and a band behind 

 the eye black ; the throat and a band crossing the hind-neck 

 white ; a large patch of black on each side of the lower part 

 of the neck ; the bill black, the lower mandible flesh-colour- 

 ed at the base ; the feet dusky, the claws black. Young 

 without black on the head, the bands on both its sides and 

 the patches on the neck brown, the feathers of the upper 

 parts margined with whitish. 



Male, 6 T ^, . ., 4, ^, k%> TZ> iV Female, 6 ft- 



The Kentish Plover, so named by Latham, who first de- 

 scribed it from specimens shot near Sandwich in Kent, has 

 been found along the sandy coasts of several of the southern 

 and eastern counties of England, but not farther north than 

 Norfolk. It is very extensively distributed'on the Continent, 

 and is found in India and its islands, so that the name by 

 which it is known is very inappropriate, although well enough 

 chosen at the time of its discovery. Its habits are similar to 

 those of the Ringed Sand-Plover. The eggs, four in number, 

 are an inch and a fourth in length, eleven-twelfths in breadth, 

 of a yellowish stone colour, spotted and streaked with black. 



Charadrius Cantianus, Lath. Ind. Ornith. Suppl. ii. 316. 

 Charadrius Cantianus ? Temm. Man. d'Ornith. ii. 544. Cha- 

 radrius Cantianus, Kentish Sand-Piper, MacGillivray, Brit. 

 Birds, iv. 



172. CHARADRIUS MINOR. LITTLE RINGED SAND-PLOVER. 



Length about six inches, bill five-twelfths and a half, 

 wings shorter than the tail. Adult with the bill black, the 

 feet flesh-coloured ; the upper parts light brownish-grey ; the 



