LONG-LEGGED PLOVER, AND DOTTREL. 487 



Br. Zool. ii. N" 209 — Fl. Scot. i. N" I i^-j.— Latham, iii. 4°5« Lonc-lig- 



Charadrius Himantopus, Lin.SyJi. 255. — Hajfelquifl, 253. 

 L'Echaffe, De Buffon, viii. 114. — PI. Enl. 878.— Lev. Mus; 



TJL.- With the crown, upper part of the neck, back, and wirigs, 

 dufky ; the laft crofTed with a white line : tail of a greyifli 

 white : forehead and whole under fide of the neck and body white: 

 legs the moft difproportionably long and weak of any known bird ; 

 the French, for that reafon, call it, very juftly, I'EchaJfe, or the 

 bird that goes upon ftilts ; they are of a blood-red, four inches and a 

 half long, and the part above the knees three and a half. Length, 

 £0 the end of the tail, thirteen inches. 



Inhabits from ConneSiicut to the iflands of the Weft Indies *. Is Pi-/.cs. 



not a bird of northern Europe, Frequent in the fouthern defert of 

 independent "fartary : very common about the fait lakes ; and 

 often on the (hores of the Ca/pian fea. Is again found on the Indian 

 Ihores near Madra^-f. 



A, Dottrel, Br. Zool. ii. N° 210.— Charadrius Morinellus Lahul, Lappis, Faun. Suae, 

 N° 188. — Leems Lapmark, 260. — Latham, iii. 

 Le Guignard, De Buffon, viii. 87.— ?/. Enl. 832.— Lev. Mus. 



pL. With bill and crown black : from the bill, over each eye, a white 





line: breaft and belly dull orange; the firft crofled with a white 

 line : vent white : back, coverts of wings, and tail, olivaceous, edged 



* Sloane^ f Rait Sjn, Av. 193 » 



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