RINGED PLOVEE. 
471 
Charadrius Hiaticula. Linn. Syst.Nat. 1. 253. 1. — Linn. Faun. 
Slice. IS/- — Gmel. Syst. Nat. 1. 683. — Rail. Syn. 112 . a. 6^ — 
Lath. hid. Orn. 2. /43. 8. 
Charadrius torquatus. Leach. Cat. Brit. Mus. p. 28. 
Pluvialis torquata minor. Brhs. Orn. 5. 63. 8 pi 5.f- 2. 
Le Pluvier a collier. Buff. Ois. 8. QO — Buj/', PI. Enl. 920. 
Grand Pluvier a collier. Temm. Man. d'Orni. 328. 
Sea Lark. Alb. Birds. 1. pi. SO. — Loiv. Faun. Oread, p. 89. 
Ri nged Plover Penn. Brit. Zool. 2. 211. — Penn. Arct. Zool.2. 
401. — Lath. Gen. Syn. 5. 201. 8. — Levoin. Brit. Birds, 5. j)l. 
184. — If 'ale. Syn. 2. pi. I6I. — Don. Brit. Birds. 1. pi. 18. — 
Pull. Cat. Dors. 16. — Bevo. Brit. Birds. 1.334. — Mont. Orn. 
Diet. 2. — Mont. Orn, Diet. Supp. — Wills. Amer. Orn. 5. 30. 
pi. xxxvii, y! 3. 
Length seven inches : the forehead, space be- 
tween the eye and beak, a broad coronal stripe 
passing over the eyes to the occiput, and a broad 
gorget on the breast, wliose extremities join on the 
nape, are all deep black : a stripe through the 
middle of the forehead, the throat, collar round 
the neck, and all the under parts of the body, are 
white : the occiput and whole of the upper parts 
are grey-brown : the two middle tail-feathers 
greyish brown, growing black almost towards the 
tips ; the three next on each side the same, with 
the tips white ; the last but one is white, with a 
brown band : the outer one is white, with a small 
spot only : the shafts of the quills towards their 
tips, and a spot on their inner webs, pure white : 
beak orange, with the tip black : legs orange : 
claws black. The female with the coronal band 
narrower, and the gorget on the breast dusky. 
The young has the whole of the parts that are 
destined to become black in the adult of a dusky 
