218 PLOVER. 



white ftreakj and through the eye a black one, palling to the hind 

 head, the white entering a little way into the black at the back 

 part : behind the neck, the back, wings, a«d tail, brown : upper 

 part of the belly dufky : the reft of the parts beneath, the rump, 

 upper tail coverts, and tip of the tail, white : quills black ; legs 

 yellowifh white. 

 Placi. From the coaft of Coromandel. The two laft differ much from 



the Plovers in the fhape of the bill j but have fo great an affinity 

 to them on account of the toes, which are only three in number s 

 and all placed forward, that they cannot with propriety be placed 

 in any other genus. 



Genus 



