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NOISY PLOVER. 
sand and shingle of the sea shore ; they vary in 
number from three to five, and are of a yellow- 
olive, marked with various sized irregular spots of 
dusky brown. 
NOISY PLOVER. 
(Charadrius vociferus.) 
Ch. corpore supra gn'seo-fusco suhtus nihn, fasciis pectoris colli 
fro7itis genarumque nigris, caudd luted fasctd nigra, pedibus 
Jiavis, rostro nigro. 
Plover with the body above grey-brown ; beneath white; with 
black fasciae on the breast, the neck, forehead, and cheeks ; 
the tail yellow, with a black fascia; the feet yellow; the 
beak black. 
Charadrius vociferus. Limi. Spst. Not. 1 . 253. 3. — Gmel. Syst. 
Nat. 2 665 . — Loth. hid. Orn. 2 . y42. 6. 
Charadrius torqiiatus. Linn. Syst. Nat. 1. 255. 9 .? . 
Pluvialis Virgiiiiana torqiiata. Briss. Orn. 5. 6'8 9- 
Plinialis Doininicensis torquata. Briss. Orn. 5. 70 . 10. pi. 6. 
f.2. 
Kildir. Bu/f. Ois. 8 . 56 . 
Plinier a collier de St. Domingue. BnJF. PL Enl, 280. 
Chattering Plover, or Kill-Deer. Catesb. Carol. 1.^/. 71*— • 
Wills. Ainer. Orn. 7 . 73- pi- li^-./- 6 . 
Noisy I’lover. Penn. Arct. Zool. 2. 400. — Lath. Gen. Syn. 5. 
199- 6 . 
This species is thus described by Latham: 
“ Size of a Snipe: length nine inches and three 
quarters : beak above an inch long, and black : 
