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Var. A. 



PLOVER. 



mon.on thofe of the IJle of Rum, and the loftier Hebrides*. Alfo 

 on the Grampian, and all the heathy hills of the iflands and 

 highlands of Scotland^. They make a flirill whittling noife, and 

 may be indeed within gun-lhot by a ikilful imitator of their 

 voice. The eggs are four in number, two inches and one eighth 

 in length, more pointed in lhape than thofe of the Lapwing ; of a 

 pale cinereous olive, blotched with blackifh fpots. On the con- 

 tinent they are met with in- Sweden, Denmark, Lapland, ^Iceland, 

 and other northern parts : to the fouth as far as Aleppo % ; and, if 

 the fpecies be not miftaken, in the ifland of Batavia%, as well 

 as in China : our laft voyagers met with them at Owhyhee\, and 

 Tork Iflands, in the South Seas, but of a fmaller fize. 



In America, met with on the coaft of Labrador, and Hudfon's 

 Bay^ ; from thence to New Tork, as low as Carolina ; migrating 

 from one to the other according to the feafons : and, if the fol- 

 lowing be admitted as a variety, at the ifland of Saint Domingo, 

 and in Cayenne**. 



Le Pluvier dorc de Saint Domingue, Brif. Qrn. v. p. 48. pi. 6. fig. 1. 



Description. Q^ZE of the laft: length nine inches and three quarters. Bill 



the fame : the feathers round the bafe of it and the throat 



rufous white : the plumage on all the upper parts dufky, marked 



* Br. Zoo!. f F^f- Scot. i. p. 3;. J R'(fel, p. 71. § Ha<wkef. 



Foy.'rn. p. 782. \\ Ellis Nar. ii. p.[gj.— — Alfo at Tengataboo. — Cook's laft 



Voy. i.p. 334. 



"Vjf Mr. Hutchins defcribed to us a -bird which we fufpecl to be this, or very 

 like it, called by the natives Wupvjkapethayijb. 



•* One from the laft place, in the collection of Colonel Davies, meafures near 

 twelve inches in length. 



5 with. 



