CHARADRIAD^. 339 



GENUS CCCLXXIL— SQUAT ARO LA, Cuvier. 

 SQUATAROLLE. 



Generic character : vide Steph. v. xi. p. 504. 



GENUS CCCLXXIII— VANELLUS, Brisson. LAPWING. 

 Generic character : vide Steph. v. xi. p. 508. 



GENUS CCCLXXIV.— PLUVIANUS, Vieillot. PLUVIAN. 

 Generic character : vide Steph. v. xi. jo. 486. 



GENUS CCCLXXV.— CHARADRIUS Auctorum. 

 PLOVER. 



Generic character : vide Steph. v. xi. p. 463. 



Ch. nigrifrous. 



Ch. supra rufescente-fuscus albo longitudinaliter striatus, infra 

 albus; f route, tcenia verticali alteroque pone oculos Jhscidque 

 pectorali nigris. 



Plover above reddish-brown longitudinally striped with white, 

 beneath white ; with the forehead, a stripe on the crown, and 

 another behind the eyes, and a band on the breast black. 



Charadrius nigrifrons. Cuvier. Temm. PI. Col. 47. y. L 



Inhabits New Holland. Length six inches : the 

 forehead, the space between the beak and the eyes, a 

 band over the middle of the head, and another behind 

 the eyes, on the sides of the neck, and a broad belt on 

 the breast, which surrounds the hind part of the neck, 

 are black : the back and the wings are reddish-brown, 

 longitudinally dashed with white : part of the sca- 

 pulary feathers is of a coppery-purple : the fore part 

 of the neck, the eyebrows, the nape, the belly and 

 vent are pure white : the three lateral tail-feathers 



