■io6 



PLOVER. 



that feed there, which, by fertilifing the fpot, perhaps may con- 

 tribute to increafe the produce ofinfefts, which are its food. 



10. 



NEW-ZEALAND 

 PL. 



Description. 

 Pl. LXXXIII. 



A TRIFLE bigger than the Ringed Plover: length eight 

 inches. Bill one inch long, red, with a black tip : irides 

 blue grey : eye-lids red : the fore part of the head, taking in the 

 eye, chin, and throat, black, palling backwards in a collar at the 

 hind head ; all the back part of the head, behind the eye, green- 

 ifh afli-colour; thefe two colours divided by white : the plumage 

 on the upper parts of the body the fame colour as the back 

 of the head: quills and tail dufky : the lad order of coverts 

 white for fome part of their length, forming a bar on the wing: 

 the under parts of the body white : legs red. 



Inhabits Queen Charlotte's Sound. Known there by the name 

 of Doodooroa-attoo. 



In the collection of Sir Jo/eph Banks. 



ii. 



GREGARIOUS 

 PL. 



Description. 



Charadrius Gregarius, Pall. Trav. i. p. 456. 



CIZE of a Lapwing. Bill in fhape and fize the fame as in 

 that bird : crown of the head brown, mottled with white : 

 forehead white, paffing in a ftreak over each eye to the hind 

 head : through the eyes a black ftreak : body afh-colour, fome- 

 what approaching to that of a Turtle : the chin whitifti : at the 

 lower part of the breaft a large crefcent of black j behind it a 

 dirty rufous one j from thence to the vent white : tail even at 

 the end, white, crofled with a black band, which is not confpi- 

 8 cuous 



