21(5 



PLOVER. 



22. 



WREATHED 

 PL. 



Description. 



Place. 



Le Pluvier couronne, Buf. Oif. viii. p. 101; 

 Pluvicr du Cap de Bonne Efperance, PL Enl. 800. 



HpHlS is twelve inches in length. The bill is reddifh, towards 

 the point dufky : the head even with the eye, and chin, are 

 black : round the crown runs a lift of white, encircling the head 

 like a wreath : the hind part of the neck, and upper part of the 

 body, are brown, with a glofs of greenifli purple in fome lights; 

 this is likewife feen on the breaft, which is marked with a few 

 fpots of black : the neck, as far as the breaft, is grey : the belly 

 white ; as are the greater coverts : the tail white, with a broad 

 band of black near the end: quills black : legs ruft-colour. 

 This comes from the Cape of Good Hope. . 



*3- 

 WATTLED PL. 



Description. 



Place. 



Le Pluvier a lambeaux, Buf. Oif. viii. p. 102. 

 Pluvier de la Cote de Malabar, PL Enl. 880. 



O I Z E of the Golden Plover : length nine inches and a half. 

 The bill is yellow : on the forehead a naked bare fkin, hang- 

 ing down in a pointed flap on each fide of the jaw : crown of the 

 head black : through the eye a white ftreak : the neck and upper 

 parts of the body yellowifh grey, deepeft on the back : the under 

 parts, from the breaft, white : acrofs the greater wing coverts a 

 band of white: quills black: the tail is like the back, crolTed 

 with a black bar at the end ; and the tips and outfides of fome 

 of the outer feathers white : legs pale yellow. 

 This is met with on the coaft of Malabar. 



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