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KENTISH PLOVER. 
This bird inhabits the sea shore near the mouths 
of large rivers : it is very abundant in Germany 
and towards the south of Europe, and occasionally 
migrates into Holland ; it feeds on aquatic insects 
and small worms : it lays from three to five oblong 
eggs, of a whitish hue, mottled with large black 
spots and indistinct ones of grey-brown : they are 
deposited on the sandy shores. 
KENTISH PLOVER. 
(Charadrius Cantlanus.) 
Ch. Jiixcus fronte collari ahdoin 'meque albis, vittd per oculos 
lateralihusque pectoris nigris. 
Brown Plover, with the forehead, collar, and abdomen, white; 
a stripe through the eyes, and the sides of the breast, black. 
Charadrius Cantianus. Lath. hid. Orn. Sup. Ixvi. 1. 
Plu viera collier interronipu. Tenirn. Man. d'Onii. 331. 
Kentish Plover. Lcrv. Brit. Birds.pl. 185. Lath. Spn,. Sup. 
11. 316. 3. — Mont. Orn. Diet. Sup. 
Ringed Plover, variety. Mont. Orn. Diet. Sup. 
About six inches and a half in length : the 
forehead, the eyebrows, which are broad, a band 
on the nape, and the whole of the under parts, are 
pure white : a space between the eye and the beak, 
and large angular patch on the head, and a broad 
spot on each side of the breast, are deep black : 
behind each eye is a large spot of grey-black : the 
