318 CLASS AVES. 



crown, quills, and tail-band, black ; forehead, carun- 

 culated. Malabar. 



Also are described by Latham, — Chestnut-hilled 

 Plover. Lath. H. 324. n. 10. Black-throated 

 Plover. Lath. H. 330. n. 15. New Holland 

 Ringed Plover. Lath. H. 332. n. 19. New Holland. 

 Ticksee Plover. Lath. H. 343. n. 36. India. 



The Lapwings. Vanellus. Bech. Tringa.* 

 Lin. 



Have the same bill as the Plovers, and are distin- 

 guishable from them only by liaving a thumb, which, 

 however, is so small that it does not touch the 

 ground. 



The first tribe of them, 



Squatarola. Cuv. 



Has the thumb scarcely perceptible ; it is distin- 

 guished by the bill being swollen underneath, and by 

 the nasal fossae, which are short, as in Oedicnemus ; 

 their feet are reticulated. These indigenous species 

 have the entire tail striped with white and blackish. 

 They form, as it is said, only one species, which has 

 been multiplied by authors, from the variations of its 

 plumage. It associates with the plovers. 



* Tringa, or rather Trynga, is the Greek name of a bird, the size of a 

 thrush, which lives on the edge of water, and moves its tail. Arist- — Lin- 

 naeus first applied this name ; but he placed in his genus Tringa, several 

 other birds than tlic Vanelli, especially the Knots. 



