Ca.Ass II. LONG LEGGED PLOVER. mi: 



white ; the crown of the head, back, and wings, 

 black ; on the hind part of the neck are a few 

 black spots ; the tail is of a greyish white ; the 

 wings when closed extend far beyond it.* 



These birds are extremely rare in these islands : 

 Sir Robert Sibbald records a brace that were shot 

 in Scotland: another was shot a few years ago 

 on Stanton- Har court common, near 0.vford,'\ 

 and we have seen them often in the cabinets 

 of the curious at Paris, taken on the French 

 coasts. 



* A good figure of this rare bird, with some excellent obser- 

 vations by the reverend Hugh Davies, and corrections of the 

 error into which some eminent naturalists had fallen relative to 

 the shape of the bill, are given in the third volume of Dr. Shaw's 

 Naturalist's Miscellany. Ed, 



•f" Mr. White, Fleet Street, had a specimen, shot out of a 

 small flock which were seen on Frenchmen s ponds in Hainp" 

 shire. Ed. 



