Peis) OFF Va ee 
the eye, and reaching over the ear; all beneath, from the chin to the 
vent, white, pafling round the neck asa collar: on each fide of the 
breaft, next to the fhoulder of the wing, is a black patch: back and 
wings pale brown: quills dufky; the fhaft of the outer one, the 
whole of the leneth, andthe middle of the next white: the greater 
coverts for the moft part tipped with white: tail rounded in fhape, 
not unlike the quills; the three outer feathers whice, except a dufky 
fpot on the inner web of the outmoft but two; the others have the 
bafes very pale half way, but the two middle ones are of one colour: 
legs blueifh black. 
I received the above from Mr. Boys, of Neidio: 23d May 1787, 
being fhot in that neighbourhood; and in the month of April 1791; 
two others: the weight of thefe was about twenty grains more than 
the former: the bill and legs were black: in one of them the whole 
nape was of a fine pale reddifh bay, the other pale brown, inclining 
to bay towards the nape: the three outer tail feathers white, but the 
inner of thefe inclining to dufky on the inner web; the next very 
pale brown, or brownifh white, with a dufky tip; the four middle 
ones brown, with the ends dufky, approaching to black: in other 
things they were like the firft defcribed; but in one of them, the 
black patch at the bend of the wing was much larger, and approached 
on each fide towards the breaft. We do not find the above defcribed 
or figured except in Briti/h Birds; to the author of which I firft com- 
municated it. That it does not at all belong to the Rizged Plover, in 
any ftage, the colour of the bill and legs will teftify; for in the laft, 
both of them incline more or lefs to yellow or orange, even whilft 
very young, and in the adult are ever of a fine orange. 
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