122 GRALL^E. 



plate opposite, than from any verbal description. That figure 

 is one-third of the lineal dimensions of the bird, and it was 

 copied with the greatest care from a very fine specimen pro- 

 cured in the summer of this year, (1833,) in the height of the 

 breeding time ; so that it may be considered a faithful repre- 

 sentation of the bird in its richest attire. 



From the figure it will be seen that this bird differs as 

 much from the ring-plover in the markings of its plumage, 

 as in those characters that have been already noticed ; and 

 as is the case with the former species, it is probable that, in 

 the same sex, at the same age and season, there is little 

 difference in the plumage. 



The bird is without that mark in the plumage, on which 

 the trivial name of the other is founded, having only a patch 

 df black on each side of the neck towards the shoulders, not 

 meeting in front so as to form a gorget, or behind so as to 

 form a collar. There is no black on the forehead over the base 

 of the bill, and that on the side of the head is merely a 

 streak. There is a black spot on the forehead over the 

 white, and a small detached white spot over each eye back- 

 wards. The black streak from the gape to the eye is narrow 

 and waving ; the crown and nape are rufous ; and the upper 

 parts reddish ash, of a much warmer tint than the upper part 

 of the ring-plover. The white on the chin, forepart of the 

 neck, and indeed on all the under part, is more intense, and 

 on the belly it is glossed with a roseate tint, so delicate as 

 equally to defy*words and colours. The quills are dusky with 

 the shafts pale or dull white, and a little white on some of 

 the outer webs. The tail-feathers reddish ash, darker towards 

 the tips ; but the outer ones, and part of the margins and 

 tips of the others, white. 



The female wants the black on the head and sides of the 

 neck, has the cheeks and head mottled ash, the upper part 

 darker ash, without the reddish tint of the male, the wings 



