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WATTLED PLOVER. 
(Charadrius bilobus.) 
Ch. rufo-griseus, superciliis ahdomine Jasciaque alarum albisy 
pileo remigibus Jasciaque rectricum nigris, caruncidd Jrontis 
dependeute. 
Red-grey Plover; with the eyebrows^ abdomen^ and stripe on 
the wings, white ; the pileus, quills, and band on the tail- 
feathers, hlack ; the front with a depending wattle. 
Charadrius bilobus. Gmel. Syst. Nat. 1. 691. — Lath. Ind. Orn, 
2. 750. 28. 
Le Pluvier a lambeaux. Buff. Ois. 8. 102. 
Le Pluvier de la cote de Malabar. Buff. PI. Enl. 880. 
Wattled Plover. Lath. Gen. Syn. 5. 2l6. 23. 
Length nine inches and a half: beak yellow: 
the forehead with a naked bare skin hanging 
down in a pointed flap on each side of the jaw : 
the crown of the head black : through the eye a 
stripe of white : the neck and upper parts of the 
body are yellowish grey, deepest on the back : the 
under parts, from the breast, white : greater wing- 
coverts with a band of white : quills black : tail 
similar to the back, crossed with a bar of black at 
the end, and the tips and outer webs of some of the 
exterior feathers white. It inhabits the coast of 
Malabar. 
V. XI. P. II. 
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