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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- 
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. 
“Cuaraprius CantiANnus, Lath. 
PLATE XXXVIII._ Fie. 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. Dict. Sup.—Shaw’s Zool. 11. 474. 
Tuts species, which is rather inferior even in size to the 
preceding one, was first named by Dr Latuaw, in the Sup- 
plement to the “ Index Ornithologicus,” and was described 
by him at greater length in the second supplementary vo- 
Q2 
Winter 
plumage. 
