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CURONIAN PLOVER. 
(Charadrius Curonicus.) 
Ch. cervicis fascia lurmlaque froniis nigris, pileo cinereo, fascia 
oculari nigricante undulaia, dor so alls cauddque drier eis, pedibus 
rubescenfibus. 
Plover with the top of the neck, and a fascia and lunule on the 
forehead, black j the pileus grey ; an undulated dusky fascia 
near the eye; the back, wings, and tail, grey 3 the feet 
reddish. 
Charadrius Curonicus. Gmel. Syst. Nat. 1 . 692 .- — Lath. Ind. 
Orn. 2. 750 . 31. 
Le petit Pluvier a collier. Buff. Ois. 8. pi. 6. — Buff. PI. Enl. 921 . 
Temm. Man, d' Orni, 330. 
Curonian Plover. Lath. Syn. Sup. II. 318. 6. 
This species is in length six inches : its beak is 
entirely black : the circle round the eyes is of a 
lemon-yellow : the forehead, space between the 
eyes and beak, a broad coronal band passing over 
the eyes and in a straight line beneath, and a narrow 
gorget on the breast, whose extremities join on 
the nape, are deep black : a stripe through the 
forehead, the throat, a collar on the neck, and the 
whole of the under parts, white : the occiput and 
whole of the upper parts of the body are dusky 
grey : the two outer tail-feathers are white, with a 
black bar on their inner web ; the following is part 
white, and the rest, the two middle ones excepted, 
are tipped with white ; the outer quill alone has 
the shaft white : legs flesh- colour. 
