PLOVER, 



with yellowish fpots : upper tail coverts brown, ftreaked tranf- 

 verfely with pale yellow : fore part of the neck and breaft pale 

 grey, the feathers edged with pale yellow : belly, fides, and thighs, 

 white : prime quills brown, with white fhafts : tail brown, the fea- 

 thers fpotted on the margins with yellowifh white : legs grey. 

 Inhabits Saint Domingo. 



Ruddy Plover, Aril. Zool. N° 404. 



ILL ftrait, one inch long, and black : head, neck, breaft, 

 fcapulars, wing coverts, and thofe of the tail, of a ruddy co- 

 lour, fpotted with black, and powdered with white : in the fca- 

 pulars and wing coverts the black prevails : the outer webs of the 

 four firft quills are brown j the inner white, tipped with brown : 

 the upper part of the others white ; the lower brown : the two 

 middle tail feathers are brown, edged with ruft ; the others of a 

 dirty white : legs black : toes divided to their origin. 



Inhabits Hudfon's Bay, where it is known by the name of Mijl- 

 chaychekijkawefiijh. 



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Placb. 



2. 

 RUDDV PL, 



Description. 



Pi, ace. 



Charadrius himantopus, Lin. Sjjl. i. p. 255. 1 1. — HaJJelq. Iter. 253. N° 29. 3- 



-Scop.Ann.uK° H Z. lSjGTOPL, 



L'Echaffe, Brif. Orn. v. p. 33. \. pi. 3. fig. 1. — Buf. Oif. viii. p. 114. 



pi. 8.— PI. Enl. 878. 

 Himantopus, Rait Syn. p. 106. 9. p. 193. pi. 1. fig. 1. — Will. Orn. 



■ P- 297- pi. 54- 

 Long legs, Rait Syn. p, 190. 7.— Sloan "Jam. ii. p. 316. 6. pi. 267. 

 Long-legged Plover, Br. Zool. N° Z09. — F lor. Scot. i. p. 3;. pi. 4.— ArQ. 

 Zool. N° 405. 



Br. Muf. Lev. Muf. 



*~p H I S is a fingular bird, on account of its great length of D 



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escription: 



legs : it meafures, from the end of the bill to that of the tail, 



C c a thirteen 



