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DESCRIPTION. 
Been: On Va ES Re 
Charadrius Falklandicus, Ind. Ora. ii. p. 747. 18. 
Rufty-crowned Plover, Portlock’s Voy. pl. in p. 36. Male and Fone 
IZE of the Ringed Plover : \ength feven inches and a half: Bill three 
inches and a quarter, black: forehead, chin, all the fore part of 
the neck, the breaft, and. belly ee acrofs the top of the head a. 
bar of black, paffing downwards on each fide of the neck, in an irre- 
gular manner, to the wings, and frqm thence forwards to the breaft, 
forming a broad bar thereon: behind the black bar, on the top of the 
head, isa ftripe of ferruginous, encircling all the back part of the head 
as a wreath: the crown of the head within this, all the upper parts of 
the body and wings are cinereous brown; but the greater quills and 
tail are black: legs black. 
The female is much the fame in colour with the male, but differs in 
wanting the ferruginous wreath at the back part of the head. 
Inhabits Falkland Ifles, in the Pacific Ocean. 
Charadrius Sibiricus, Ind. Orn. i. p. 747. 19.—=Lepech. It. ii. t. 6. 
HE forehead in this bird is variegated with black and white; the 
crown fafciated with dufky: breaft brown, bounded by a white 
band: belly ferruginous, 
Inhabits Szbcria. 
Charadrius curonicus, Ind, Oru. ii. p. 750: 31 eee d. Berl. Naturf. Gefch 
Vil. p. 463. 48. (Be/eke.) 
HE bill in this is dufky : the head, breaft, belly, and vent are 
white: the forehead is white; in the middle of which is a black 
crefcent: on the crown grey: from the bill, through the eyes, and 
beyond them, paffes an undulated dufky ftripe: on the breaft a black 
band: back, wings, and tail grey, with pale dull markings: the three 
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