316 CLASS AVES. 



Species with the feet shielded and wings not 

 armed. 



Wreathed Plover. Lath. Char. Coronatus. Enl. 800. 



Brown ; head above, black ; occipital ring, belly, 

 wing-band, and tail, white; quills and tip of tail, 

 black. Cape of Good Hope. Ch. Aleooandrinus. v. 

 Lath, and Ch. Atricapillus, Penn. 



Black-headed Plover, Lath. Char. Melanocephalus. 

 Enl. 918. Savigny, Egypt Ois. pi. 6, f. 4. of 

 which M. Vieillot makes his genus Pluvianus, 

 Gal. pi. 23, which has the bill rather larger than 

 the others. 



Blue-grey ; head, back of neck, and back, black ; eye- 

 brows, front of neck, and chest, pale-red. Senegal, 

 Egypt. The Char ad. jEgyptius. Haselq. Ch. Alex- 

 andrias, B. Gmel. Ch. Africanus. Lath. Pluvianus 

 Chlorocephalus. Vieill. the adult. Pluvianus Melano- 

 cephalus. Vieill. the young. 



Species armed as above mentioned — 



Crested Spur-winged Plover. Char. Spiiiosus. Enl. 

 801. 



Quills, chest, and feet, black ; occiput, crested ; tail, 

 half- white. Egypt. The Ch. Cristatus. Edw. 47. 

 see Savig. Ois. Egypt, t. 6. f. 3. according to Lichen- 

 stein. 



Spur-winged Plover. Lath. Char. Cayanus. Enl. 

 833. 



Ash ; top of head and back of neck, scapulars, quills, 



