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24, a. 

 INDIAN PL. 



f 1. O V E R. 



Xe petit Pluvler des Indes, Brif. Orn. 8vo. ii. p. 234. N" 16. 



J)EscRiPTioN, "MEARLY the fize of a Lark: length fix inches. Bill nine 

 lines long, and blackilh : the upper part of the body is 

 brown ; the under, dufliy white : on the breaft two tranfverfe 

 brown bands : the prime quills brown j the fecondaries dufky : 

 tail feathers white at the bafe; the reft of their length brown j 

 wings and tail of equal length whenclofed: legs dulky blaclc 

 Place. Inhabits the Eaji Indies. 



**WITH A CURVED BILL. 



2,^.* Cream-coloured Plover, Gen. Syn. v. p. 217. N" 25. 



-*- CREAM-CO- 

 LOURED PL. A Bjfd of this curious and fingular fpecies was fhot near St. Al~ 

 Pl. CXVI. ban's, in Eaft Kent, the feat of William Hammond, Efq; wha 



prefented it to me with the following account. He firft met with 

 it running upon feme light land.j and fo little fearful was it, that, 

 after having fent for a gun, one was brought to him, which did 

 not readily go off, having been charged fome time, and in confe- 

 <iuence miffed his aim. The report frightened the bird awayj 

 bur, after making a turn or two, it again fettled within a hundred 

 yards of him, when he was prepared with a fecond fhot, which dif- 

 patched it. It v/as obferved to run with incredible fwiftnefs, and, 

 at intervals, to pick up fomething from the ground; and was fo 

 bold, as to render it difficult to make it rife from the ground, 

 in order to take a more fecure aim on the wing. The note was 

 not like any kind of Plover's, nor indeed to be compared with 

 :that of any known bird. 



Genus 



