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on each fide backwards to the hind head as a wreath ; this is again 

 bounded by black : all the upper parts pale brown : chin white : 

 fore part of the neck dufky white : on the breaft a bar of black : 

 belly and vent white: quills dufky black; fome of the inner 

 ones have the margins white : tail white, croffed with a bar of . 

 black, an inch broad, near the end ; the tip white : legs long 

 and red. 



In the Leverian Mufeum it is called the red-eyed Plover ; one 

 of thefe is alfo in the collection of Sir Jofcpb Banks, brought 

 from the Cape of Good Hope. It is the opinion of fome, that the 

 five laft defcribed are mere varieties* ; which we cannot absolutely 

 deny ; but, till the circumftance can be more fully afcertained, we 

 have fuffered them to ftand as above. The following may, we 

 think, fafely be admitted as a further variety of the Alexandrine 

 fpecies. 



Petit Pluvie a collier de L'ifle de Lucon, Son. Voy. p. 84. t. 46. 9° 



Var. C. 



CIZE of the Alexandrine Plover. Bill black: irides yellow: Description. 



on the forehead is a fpot of white : from thence beyond the 

 eye, and the fides, black ; this laft is bounded by a brown line, 

 paffing from behind one eye to the other acrofs the head : the 

 hind head and nape, back, and wings, brown, the colour of um- 

 ber : tail black, tipped with white : the throat, fore part of the 

 neck, and belly, white ; which is continued on each fide below 

 the nape, fo as nearly to furround the neck : below this is a 

 collar of black, paffing quite round the neck : legs blackifh. 



This bird is found in the marfhy places of the ifle of Lu- Place and 



. Manners. 



fonia, efpecially fuch as are enriched by the dung of cattle 



• Bttffon. 



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