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PLOVER. 



rump, much rounded in fhape ; near the end barred with black ; 



the tip white : legs pale yellow. 

 Male and female much alike. 

 Place and This fpecies is confined to America ; and is found at New York, 



Manners. Virginia., and Carolina: remains in Virginia throughout the year; 



is there called Kill-deer, from the note refembling that word. 



Migrates to New York in fpring, where k breeds, and lays three 



or four eggs.: returns fouth in autumn. 



This is a very clamorous, reftlefs fpecies ; and, like the Jay in 



England, fets up its cry the moment any one approaches, to the 



entire difappointment of thofe who carry a gun. 



r Charadrius torquatus, Lin. Syft. i. p. 255. 8. 



Var. A. Le Pluvier a. collier de Saint Domingue, Brif. Om. v. p. 70. to. pi. 6- 



fig. 2.— PI. Enl. 386. 



Description. QI Z E of the laft, but is an inch fhorter. The bill is blue grey, 

 with a black tip : the forehead white, palling through the 

 eyes on each fide, and ending at fome .diftance behind them : 

 behind the white on the forehead, between the eyes, is a black 

 fpot : the reft of the head grey brown, edged with rufous : the 

 chin, throat, and fore part of the neck, white, paffing round the 

 laft as a collar : beneath this is a collar of black, broad on the 

 fore part : the reft of the under parts white, except a bar of 

 black mixed with white on the breaft : the back and fcapulars 

 grey brown, like the head : the rump and upper tail coverts 

 rufous : the four middle tail feathers brown, with rufous tips ; 

 the others rufous, except the outer one, which is white ; and all, 

 except the two middle ones, crofted with a black bar near the ends : 

 fome of the wing coverts are edged with rufous, and others with 



white % 



