100 LONG LEGGED PLOVER. Class II. 



Pluvier, pource qiion leprendmieux en temps 

 plttvieuji: quen milk autre, saison* 



e. LoNO Charadrius Himantopus. Ch. itaii Syn. av. 106. 

 Legged. ^^^^^^^ ^^^^^ ^j^^.^^ ^^^^^^ Sihh. Scot. ig. Tah. U. 13. 



nigro capite longiore, pedi- L'Echasse. Brisson av. v. 33. 



bus longissimis. Lath. In d. Tah. 3. Jig. 1. Hist, d'ois. 



orn. 741. id. Syn. v. I95. viii. 114. PL Enl. 878. 



id. Sup. i. 252. Charadrius himantopus. {hn. 



Le grand Chevalier d' Italic. Lin. 6qO. 



BelonPortr. d'Oyseaux, 53. Scopoli, No. 148. 



Aldr. av. iii. 176. Br. Zool. 128. add. plates* 



'.Gesnerav. b'iQ. Arct. Zool. ii. IQS. 

 Himantopus. TVil. wn. ^QJ. 



J- HIS is the most singular of the British birds. 

 The legs are of a length and weakness greatly 

 disproportioned to the body, which is inferior 

 in size to that of the golden plover : this, added 

 to the defect of the back toe, must render its 

 Descrip- paces aukward and infirm. The naked part of 

 the thigh is three inches and a half long; the 

 legs four and a half; these, and the feet, are of 

 a blood red ; the bill is black, above two inches 

 long. The length from the tip of the bill to the 

 end of the tail is thirteen inches ; the breadth from 

 tip to tip of the wing twenty-nine inches ; the 

 forehead, and whole under srde of the body, are 



TION. 



Belon Oyseavx. 260. 



