NOISY PLOVER. 



black and brown : legs black. Length, to the tip of the tail^ 

 eleven inches. 

 Place. Inhabits North America^ as low as Carolina *. Migrates to the La~ 



brador coaft, about a week after the EJkimaua W^imbrels,. in its way 

 to New York ; but not in fuch numbers. Found in Iceland and the north- 

 of Europe ; but are fcarcely feen;in Rujfta. Very frequent in Sibiria, 

 where they breed in the north. They extend A^o t6 Kamjchatka, 

 and as far fouth as the Sandwitb ifles : in - the 1 aft- it is very fmall. 

 I have feen, which I fuppofe to be youngs a variety 4 with black 

 breafts : and fometimes a very minute back toe. 



400, Noisy. Chattering Plover, Catejiy, i. -ji. — Le Kildtr, D^5/f^», viii. 96. — Latham, uu 



Charadrius Vociferus, Lin. Syft. 253. — Lev. Mus. — Bl. Mus. 



"DL. With a broad black bar, extending from the bill, beneath 



each eye, to the hind part of th,e head : orbits red : forehead, 



and fpace before and beyond the eyes, white : fore part of the 



crown black ; the reft brown : a white ring encircles the throat and 



neck ; beneath that another of black -, under that fucceeds, on the 



breaft> two femicircles, one of white, another of black; all below is 



white : back and coverts of wings brown : primaries dufky : the 



feathers on the rump are orange, and extend over three parts of tlie 



tail ; the lower part of which is black. Size of a large Snipe, 



Pj_^gg_ Inhabits New Tork, Virginia, and Carolina ; where they refide 



the whole year. Are the plague of the fportfmen, by alarming the 



' game by their fcreams. They are called in Virginia, Kill-deer, from 



the refemblance their note bears to that word. Migrate to Nem 



Xerk in the fpring : lay three or four eggs : ftay late. 



* Lunu/oti, 140. — Catejby, App>. 



