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Ringed Plover. Lath. Char. Hiaticula. Lin. Enl. 

 920. Frisch. 214. Brit. Zool. PI. P. Wils. Amer. 

 V. 37, 2. 



Grey above ; white underneath ; with a black collar 

 at the bottom of the neck, very large in fi'ont ; the 

 head, varied black and white ; the bill, yellow and 

 black. There are found in the same country two or 

 three races, or species, different in size, and in the 

 distribution of the colours of the head. 



Curonian Plover. Lath. Ch. Minor. Meyer. Enl. 

 9. 21. Wilson, vij. 59, 3. Naum. 15. f. 19. or 

 Ch. Curonicus. Lath, with the bill black. 



White ; bill, all black ; nape, band, and frontal, 

 lunule black ; crown, ash ; back, wings, and tail, ash. 

 Europe. The Ch. Fluviatilis. Bechst. Ch. Ery- 

 thropus, and Ch. Philippinus. Lath, from Sonn. 

 Voy. t. 46. 



Kentish Plover. Lath. Ch. Cantianus. Lath, or Ch. 

 Alhifroms. Meyer, of which Ch. Mgyptius may 

 be the female ; the collar is incomplete. 

 A similar distribution of colours is found in many 



foreign species. 



Noisy Plover. Lath. Ch. Vociferus. Enl. 286. 

 Young. Wils. vij. 59, 6. adult. 



Crest-band, neck, forehead, and cheeks, black ; tail, 

 yellow, black banded ; feet, yellow. America. Cates- 

 by, t. 71- the young is Ch. Torquatus, and Ch. 

 Jamaicensis. Lath. 



