Class II. DOTTREL PLOVER. 10^ 



side and the shaft of the first feather is white. 

 The tail consists of twelve feathers of a brown 

 olive color, barred near their ends with black, 

 and tipped with white. The breast and sides 

 are of a dull orange color; but immediately 

 above that is a line of white, bounded above 

 with a very narrow one of black. The belly (in 

 the male) is black ; the thighs and vent-feathers 

 white; the legs yellowisli green; the toes dusky. 



The colors of the female in general are dull- Female. 

 er ; the white over the eye is less ; and the 

 crown of the head is mottled with brown and 

 white ; the white line across the breast is 

 wanting; the belly is mixed with black and 

 white. 



These birds are found in Cambiidgeshire, Place. 

 Lincolnshire, and Derbyshire ; on Lincoln- 

 heath, and on the moors of Derbyshire, they 

 are migratory, appearing there in small flocks 

 of eight or ten only in the latter end of April, 

 and stay there all May and part of June, dur- 

 ing which time they are very fat, and much 

 esteemed for their delicate flavor. In the months 

 of April and September they are taken on the 

 Wiltshire and 'Berkshire downs : they are also 

 found in the beginning of the former month on 

 the sea side at Meales in Lancashire, and con- 

 tinue there about three weeks, attending the 



