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PLOVER. 



pale brown : quills brown; the end half of the fhafts white : the 

 fecondaries as long as the quills, and both of them reach to the 

 end of the tail, and hide it : the tail is two inches long,, brown, 

 and marked with obfcure pale brown fpots on each fide of the 

 webs : legs about two inches long, and of a pale yellow. 



Native place uncertain. It feems clearly to correfpond with 

 the laft -, but is confiderably lefs in fize. 



18. 

 WHITE-BEL- 

 LIED PL. 



Description. 



Place, 



Lev. Mil/. 



T ENGTH fix inches. Bill one inch: the plumage on the 

 upper parts dirty brown : the forehead white : above and 

 beneath the eye a ftreak of the fame : under parts white: fecon- 

 daries and prime quills equal in length;, fome of the firft white 

 from the bafe for half the length; the fhafts white: fix of the 

 middle tail feathers brown ; the outer of thefe is white juft at 

 the tip and bafe,- the three exterior ones white ; the laft but one 

 has a brown fpot on the inner web near the tip; and the third 

 is black at the end : legs pale blue. 

 Native place uncertain. 



19. 



RED-NECKED 



PL. 



Description. 



Place. 



IZE of the Purre. The bill flefh-coloured ; the end black : 

 irides orange : head and neck black : on each fide of the 

 neck a large fquare chefnut fpot, the fize of a filver penny* 

 almoft meeting together at the back part: the upper part of the 

 plumage afh-colour, with a little mixture of white about the 

 baftard wing: the breaft and under parts white : quills and tail 

 dufky : legs flelh-colour. 



Inhabits the South Seas. Found, in Adventure Bay, Van Die- 

 men's Land. 



Charadrius, 



