PLOVER. 213 



20. 



Charadrius fpinofus, tin. Sjjl. i. p. 256. 12. — Hajfelq. Iter. p. 260. 261. 

 Le Pluvier arms du Senegal, Brif. Orn. v. p. 86. pi. 7. fig. 2. — PI. Enl. 801. SPUR-WINGED 

 Le Pluvier a aigrette, Buf. Oif. viii. p. 99. PL- 



Br. Muf. Lev. Muf. 



CIZE of the Golden Plover: length twelve inches. Bill above Description. 



an inch long, and black : irides red : the crown of the head 

 and throat are black, palling a little way down the neck before : 

 the hind head a little crefted : the back part of the neck, and 

 upper part of the body, and fcapulars, grey : fides of the head, 

 and all the under part, from throat to vent, yellowifh white, 

 except a crefcent of black on the breafl, the convex part up- 

 permoft : the leffer wing coverts are black ; the middle ones 

 as the back j the greater yellowifh white ; but fome of the outer 

 ones, and the nine outer greater quills, are black ; the ten next 

 half white' half black; the two following yellowifh white; and 

 the four next the body grey : on the fore part of the wing, juft 

 within the bend, is a fpur half an inch in length, a little bent 

 and black : tail yellowifh white, tipped with black, deepeft on 

 the two middle feathers : legs black. 



This fpecies inhabits the marfhy places of lower Egypt, in the Place~ 



month of September ; is alfo found in other parts of that neigh- 

 bourhood. It goes there by the name of Dominican, the neck 

 being black, with white fides, not unaptly refembling the fame 

 part of the habit of that order *. 



* HaJJelquiJl, 



Charadrius 



