RINGED AND BLACK-CROWNED PLOVER. 485 



5r. Zoo/, ii. N" 2I1.— Le Pluvier a collier, D« 5a^», viii. 90. — PI. Enl. CjZi. 401, Ringed, 

 Charadrius Hiaticula, Strandpipare, Faun, Suec. N" \%-j.— Latham, iii. 

 — Lev.Mus.— Bl. Mus. ' . 



pL. With a Iliort bill ; upper half oraiige-color ; the end black : 

 crown light brown : forehead, and a fmall fpace behind each 

 eye, wl-yte : from the bill, beneath each eye, extends a broad bar 

 of black: the neck is encircled with a white ring; and beneath that 

 is another of black : coverts of wings of a pale brown: primaries 

 <iuiky : tail brown, tipt with lighter : legs yellow. 



Almoft all which I have feen from the northern parts of North Varies. 



America, have had the black marks extremely faint, and almoft loft. - 

 The climate had almoft deftroyed the fpecific marks ; yet, in the , 

 bill and habit, preferved fufficient to make the kind very eafily af- 

 certained. The predominant colors were white, and very light afli- 

 color. Weight near two ounces. Length, to tip of the tail, fe- Sjxs. 



ven inches and a half. Thofe of the weftern coafts oi North America 

 are much fmaller. 



Inhabits America, down to J^^z^/ca * and the 5r4/?/j ; in the laft Place. 



it is called Matuitui f, where it frequents fea-fhores_and eftuaries. 

 Is found in fummer in Greenland, : migrates from thence in autumn. 

 Is common in every part of Rtiffia and Sibiria. Was found by the 

 navigators as low as Owyhe, one of the Sandwich ifles, and as Kght- 

 c4)Iored as thofe of the higheft latitudes. ' 



"pL. With the bill an inch long ; black towards, the end ; red tav/ards 402. Black.- 

 the bafe : forehead black : crown black, furrounded with a circle crowk£d. 



of white : throat white : neck and breaft of a very light afh-color- 

 ed brown, divided from the belly by a dufky tranfverfe ftroke : 

 belly and vent white: back, fcapulars, and coverts of the wings, ci- 



Sloans, t Mangrave,. 195. 



nereous 



