204 PLOVER. 



feathers are dufky brown ; the two next on each fide dirty white, 

 tipped with brown ; and the two exterior ones white* : fhape of 

 the tail much rounded : legs black. 

 Place, Inhabits Egypt, on the canal of the Nile. Feeds on infects ' 



and fmall Frogs. Found alfo in the diocefe of Drontheim, and 

 Norway, and common about the fait lakes between the rivers 

 Argun and Onon, but not obferved elfewhere in the Ruffian do- 

 minions. 



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Var. A. 



Charadrius iEgyptius, Lin. Sjjl. i. p. 254. 4. — Hajfelq. Iter. p. 256. 31. 



■n„ c „ Q I Z E of a Tkrufh. Irides black : from the forehead a line of 



.DESCRIPTION, ^jy J 



white paffes over the eye to the hind head : the crown, fides 

 of the head, and middle of the back, black : on the breaft a band 

 of black, palling backwards, and ending in a point on the back: 

 breaft, fides of the belly, thighs, and vent, yellowifh white : 

 throat and middle of the belly white : fides of the back and 

 fhoulders hoary : quills white, crofted with a band of black in 

 the middle and tip: tail even at the end; colour of the feathers 

 hoary ; near the ends a bar of black, the tips white : legs blue : 

 claws black. 

 p LACE . Inhabits the funny plains of Egypt, and feeds on infects. 



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Var. B. 



Description. [_j 



Lev. Muf. 



J ENGTH eleven inches and a half. Bill half black, half 

 orange : crown black : over the eyes a white ftreak, paffing 



* The e^ght middle feathers are brown, blackilh near the ends, and white at the 

 tips; the two outer ones white : on the outer web of the exterior feather a brown 

 fpot, and on the inner web of the laft but one a few duty fpots.— BriJJhn. 



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