£08 



PLOVER. 



14. 



+- DOTTEREL. 



Description. 



Female. 



Place and 

 Manners. 



Charadrius Morinellus, Lin. Syjl. i. p. 249. 5.— Faun. Suec. N° 188. — 



Brun. N° 185.— Mutter, N° 2 II. 

 Le petit Pluvier, ou le Guignard, Brif. Orn. v. p. 54. 5. pi. 4. fig. 2. — - 



Buf. Oif. viii. p. 87.— PA Enl. 832. 

 The Dotterel, Rail Syn. p. m. A. 4. — Will. Orn. p. 309. pi. 55. 57.— 



Albin, ii. pi. 62. — Br. Zool. N° 210. pi. 73. — Ara.Zool. p. 487. A. 

 I<w. Muf. 



ENGTH from nine to ten inches: weight four ounces. 

 Bill lefs than an inch long, and black : the forehead is dufky 

 and grey mixed ; the back part of it dull black : over the eye is 

 a white band, which bends downwards, and paffes to the hind 

 head : fides of the head, and throat, white: the hind part of the 

 neck, the back, and wings, greyiih brown, the feathers margined 

 with pale ferruginous; but thofe of the lower part of the back 

 and rump incline to grey : fore part of the neck cinereous olive, 

 mixed with a little white next the throat ; the lower part of the 

 neck is bounded with a line of black, beneath it another of white: 

 the breaft and fides of a pale dull orange : middle of the belly 

 black ; lower part of the belly and thighs rufous white : the 

 greater quills are brown ; the outer edge and fhaft of the firft 

 white: tail olive brown; near the end a bar of duiky; the tip 

 white ; the two outer feathers margined with white: legs black. 



The female differs in being a trifle bigger; having the black 

 on the belly mixed with white, and a white line on the breaft ; 

 the white over the eye narrower ; and the colour in general more 

 dull. 



Thefe birds are common in fome parts of England; in others 

 not known. Found in tolerable plenty in Cambridge/hire, Lin- 

 colnjhire, and Derbyjhire, Are migratory, appearing in flocks of 



eight 



