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PLOVER, 



Place. 



black : forehead and under parts cinereous white : lefTer and 

 middle wing coverts black, fringed with afh-colour j the greater 

 cinereous, with whitifli edges : quills and tail dufky : legs black. 

 Inhabits Newfoundland, and is gregarious. 



ALWARGRIM 

 PL. 



Charadrius apricarius, Lin. Syjl. i. p. 254. 6. — Faun, Suec. N° 189.— 

 Brun. N° li6.—Mulkr, N° 212.— Faun. Graenl. N° y^.—Georgi 

 Reife, p. 172. 



Le Pluvier dore de la Baye de Hudfon, Brif. Orn, v. p. 51. 4. 



Le Pluvier dore a gorge noire, Buf. Oif. viii. p. 85. 



Spotted Plover, Edw. pi. 140. — Bancr. Guian. p. 173. 



Alwargrim Plover, Artt. Zool. N° 398. 



Lev. Muf. 



Description. 



Female. 



Place and 

 Manners. 



I Z E of the Golden Plover. Bill one inch long, and black : 

 eyes large : irides brown : eyelids black : the plumage on all 

 the upper parts is black, fpotted with orange : at the bafe of the 

 upper mandible the feathers are black : the forehead between the 

 eyes white, which paffes over each eye in a line, down the fides of 

 the neck, to the breaft, uniting to form a band of the fame acrofs 

 the latter: all the fore parts of the neck, breaft, and under parts, 

 are likewife black, except where the white band crolTes : the vent 

 fpotted with white : fecondaries, quills, and tail, barred brown 

 and black : lep-s black. 



The male differs in having the temples black ; but in the female 

 they are dufky or brown. 



This inhabits the northern parts of Europe, Sweden, Denmark, ■ 

 the JJle of ' eland* ', Iceland, and Greenland. In the laft it is found, 



* Known there by the name of Al-wargrim, and is faid to frequent the barren 

 heaths. — Faun. Suec 



though 



