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B. AljE calcaratee. 
B. Wings armed with a spur. 
SENEGAL PLOVER. 
(Charadrius Senegalensis.) 
Ch. remigibus fectore pedibnsque ntris, occipite cristato, reciri- 
cibus dimidiato albis, alulis spinosis. 
Plover with the quills, breast, and feet, dusky; the hind head 
crested ; the tail-feathers half white ; the wings with a spur. 
Charadrius spinosus. Linn. Syst. Nat. 1. 256. 12. — Gmel. Syst. 
Nat. 1. 6Q0. — Lath. Ind. Orn. 2. 748. 24. 
Pluvianus Senegalensis armata. Briss. Orn. 5. 86. 15. pi. 2. 
Le Pluvier a aigrette. Nuff. Ois. 8. QQ. 
Spur-winged Plover. Lath. Gen. Syn. 5, 213. 20. 
Latham gives the following description of this 
curious bird : “ Size of the Golden Plover : length 
twelve inches : beak above an inch long, and black ; 
irides red ; the crown of the head and throat are 
black, passing a little way down the neck before : 
the hind head a little crested : the back part of 
the neck, and upper part of the body, and scapulars, 
are grey: sides of the head, and all the under 
part, from throat to vent, yellowish white, except 
a crescent of black on the breast, the convex part 
uppermost: the lesser wung-coverts are black ; the 
middle ones as the back ; the greater yellowish 
white ; but some of the outer ones, and the nine 
outer greater quills, are black ; the ten next half 
white, half black ; the two following yellowish 
