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BIRDS OF BRITISH GUIANA. 



Brown, Canoe and Camp Life, p. 104, 1S76; Quelcli, Timelm (2) ii, 

 p. 372, 1888 (AbaiT River). 



"Savanna Plover," " Savanna Pewit " {Brown); "Bucktown 

 Spurwing/' "American Pewit or Lapwino-^' (Qurlch). 



Fig. 28. — To show tlie occipital cre^t. 



Fig. 29. — To illustrate the spur on the wing. 



Achilt male. Buck, scapulars, and tertials olive-hrown with hronzy 

 reflections ; short scapulars iridescent copper colour ; lesser upper 

 wing-coverts metallic purple and green ; outer median and greater 

 series whitish, the inner ones ash-grey like the outer webs of the 

 secondary quills ; bastard-wing, primary-quills, and apical portion 

 of the seconilaries black ; upper and under tail-coverts white like 

 the abdomen, axillaries, and under wing-coverts ; tail white at 

 base, followed by a broad, bluish-black band, and tipped with 

 grey; crest-feathers, forehead, throat, and breast glossy bluish- 

 black, skirted on the forehead and sides of face with white ; hinder 

 crown, sides of face, and neck all round pale earth-brown, more or 

 less glossy on the top of the head. " Bill pale red at the base, 

 the tip blackish brown ; feet greyish brown, the joints red ; iris 

 sealing-wax red." 



Total length 320 mm., culmen 32, wing 220, tail 92, tarsus 79. 



Adult female. Similar to the adult male. " Bill reddish purple, 

 the point black ; thighs reddish purple ; feet, toes, and claws black; 

 eyelid reddish purple ; iris red '^ {II. Whiieh/). Wing 222 mm. 



