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+- Var. A. 

 Description, 



PLOVER. 



England. Is a folitary bird ; and obferved, on any one's ap- 

 proaching near the neft, to ufe many flratagems to decoy the 

 perfon from it, by drawing off his attention. Called at Hudfon's 

 Bay, Kifqua the nap Jhijh . 



CIZE of the laft: length fix inches and a half. Bill black : 

 forehead, and before as far as the breaft, white, paffing round 

 the lower part of the neck as a collar: the reft of the plumage 

 pale dufky afh-colour : the end half of the tail dufky black, the 

 tip fringed with rufous : legs pale. 



Inhabits Cayenne. I have alfo feen this pale-coloured variety Flace. 



brought from Owhyhee, and have one of the fame which came 

 from Hudson's Bay. We believe it to be a variety only of the 

 laft; and feems to be at leaft as plentiful on the American conti- 

 nent as the dark-coloured one. ' 



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Charadrius Alexandrinus, Lin. Syft. i. p. 253. 2. — HaJJelq. It. p. 256. 9 . 



N° 10.— Mutter, N° 210.— Bruit. App. p. 77. ALEXANDRINE 



Le Pluvier a Collier, Brif. Orn. v. p. 60. pi. 5. fig. 1. ^ - 



CIZE of a Lark. Bill black: forehead white, paffing back- Description. 



wards in a ftreak over the eye : from the bafe of the bill a 

 ftreak of black runs through the eye, and reaches behind to the 

 ears : the top of the head, the back, and wings, brown : round 

 the neck a collar of white*: belly white: the quills blackifh 

 grey j the firft has a white ihaft ; from the fifth to the eighth 

 each feather has an oblong white fpot on the outer web : fecon- 

 daries and larger coverts tipped with white: the four middle tail 



* Brijforis bird has a black collar beneath the white one. 



D d 2 feathers 



