PLOVER. GRALLATORES. SQUATAROLA. peg 
Tremminck, 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. 
Prater 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, ap ‘ 
breast, flanks, and belly, deep black. Abdomen, vent, Summer 
and thighs, white. Lateral under tail-coverts with ob- YS 
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 oe 
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. 
* [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. 
