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DOTTREL PLOVER. Class IL 



3. Dottrel, Charadrius Morinellus. Ch. 

 pectore ferrugineo, fascia su- 

 perciliovum pectorisque li- 

 near! alba, pedibus nigris. 

 Lath. Ind. orn. 746. id. 

 Syn. V. 208. 



Morinellus avis anglica. Ges~ 

 ner av. 6l5. 



Wil. orn. 309. 



Rait Syn. av. 111. 



Camden. Brit. i. 570. 



Pluvialis minor, sive morinel- 

 lus, le petit Pluvier, ou le 



Descrip- 

 tion. 



Guignard. Brisson av.v. 54. 



Tal. 4. Jig. 2. Hist, d'ois. 



viii. 87- PI. Enl. 832. 

 Charadrius morinellus. Gm. 



Lin. 690. 

 Lappis Lahul. Faun. Suec. sp. 



188. 

 Caii opiisc. 96. 

 Cimlris Pomerants Fugl. Nor- 



vegis Bold Tioet. Mindre 



Akerloe. Brunnich, 185. 

 Br. ZooL 129. D. Arct. Zooh 



ii. 194. 



XHE female dottrel, according to Mr. IVil- 

 hfghby, weighs more than four ounces; the 

 male above half an ounce less. The length of 

 the female ten inches ; the breadth nineteen 

 and a half; the male not so large. The bill 

 black, slender, depressed in the middle, and not 

 an inch long; the forehead, top, and back of 

 the head black, the former spotted with white ; 

 a broad white stroke that passes over the eyes, 

 surrounds the whole; the cheeks and throat 

 are white ; the neck is of a cinereous olive color ; 

 the middle of the feathers of the back, and 

 coverts of the wings and tail olive, but their 

 edges of a dull deep yellow ; the quil feathers 

 are brown, with brown shafts, but the exterior 



