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GRALLATORES. 



Family CHARADRIIDyE. f Bonaparte. J 



Genus Charadrius, f Linncsus.J 



BLACK-HEADED PLOVER. 



Charadrius cegyplius. 



Charadrius cegyptius, Hasselquist; 1752. 



" melanocephalus, Gmelin; Syst., 1788. 



" clilorocephalus, ViEiLLOT; Gal. Ois. pi. 233. 



Fluvianus cegyptius, Haetlaub; Ornith. West 



Africas, p. 209. 

 Cursorius charadrioides, Waglee. 



Ammoptila charadrioides, Swainson; Classification of 



Birds, p. 364. 

 Cheilodromas melanocephalus, E-uppell; Mus. Senkenb. 

 Flavian du Senegal, Buffon. 



" vielanocephale, Of the Fbench. 



Specific Characters. — Primaries white, with the base and apex 

 black; secondaries white, with the apex black; scapularies as long 

 as the longest primary. Length, from tip of beak to end of tail, 

 nine inches; wings five inches and three fifths; tail two inches 

 and seven tenths. Beak from forehead three fifths, from rictus 

 four fifths of an inch; tarsi one inch and three fifths; middle 

 toe and claw one inch. 



This bird inhabits Egypt and Senegal, but it is, 

 according to authors, occasionally found in Europe. 

 Degland says that it has been captured in the south 



