BRITISH BIRDS. 



THE KENTISH PLOVER. 



(Charadrius Cimh'aiuis, Lath. PI inner a collier 

 inter roinpu, Temm.) 



THE following is Latham's description of this 

 bird " Size of the Ring Plover; length, six inches 

 and a half; breadth, fifteen inches; weight, an 

 ounce and a half; the bill is black; the top of the 

 head ferruginous brown, bounded on the forepart 

 with black, but the forehead is white, which passes 

 over the eye, and a little beyond it; from the bill 

 through the eye a black streak, broadening behind 

 the eye, and reaching over the ear; all beneath, 

 from the chin to the vent, white, passing round the 

 neck as a collar; on each side the breast, next to 

 the shoulder of the wing, is a black patch; back 

 and wings pale brown; quills dusky; the shaft of 

 the outer one the whole of the length, and the 

 middle of the next, white; tail rounded in shape, 

 not unlike the quills; the three outer feathers 

 white, except a dusky spot on the inner web of the 

 outermost but two ; the others have the basis very 

 pale half-way, but the two middle ones are of one 

 colour." 



