340 CHAKADRIADJE. 



are white, with a brown spot ; the rest are of the 

 colour of the back : the base of the beak is yellow, 

 its tip black : the legs are yellowish. 



Ch, ruficapillus. 



Ch. supra cinereiis pennis ri/fo marginatls, infra alhis ; Jcicic alba 



nigro circumdata ; occipite niichdque in maribuH rufescentihus, 



injceminis cinereo-rufescentibus. 

 Plover above cinereous, with the feathers edged with red, beneath 



white ; the face white surrounded by black ; the occiput and 



nape reddish in the males, ashy-red in the females. 

 Charadrius ruficapillus, Temm. PI. Col. ^7-f- 2. 



Inhabits New Holland ? Length five inches and 

 a half: the face is white, surrounded by a black 

 band, which extends from one eye to the other, and 

 from thence to the beak : the occiput and the nape 

 are of a bright red in the male, and ashy-red in the 

 female : the feathers of the back, the scapulars and 

 the wing-coverts are clear ash edged with reddish : 

 part of the secondaries are white, the rest with the 

 quills are black : the four middle tail-feathers are 

 ashy-bro^vn ; the rest are pale white : a small spot at 

 the bend of the wing, and all the rest of the plumage, 

 are pure white. 



Ch, pecuarius, 



Ch. supra. cinereo-Juscus, guld, collo antice, abdomineque albis ; 



pectore ventreque isabellino-Jlavis ; strigd duplici ajronte ad 



nucham supra alba, infra nigrd. 

 Plover above ashy-brown, with the thi'oat, neck anteriorly, and 



abdomen white; the breast.and belly isabella-yellow ; a double 



stripe from the forehead to the nape above white, beneath 



black. 

 Charadrius pecuarius, Tevim, PI. Col. IH3. 



