GREY PLOVER. 168 



In summer, the space from the base of the beak, the chin, 

 throat, front and sides of the neck, breast, and belly, are 

 black ; the forehead, streak over the eyes, sides of the neck 

 and breast pure white ; the thighs and vent, including the 

 under tail-coverts, the same. The crown of the head and 

 occiput are grey, spotted with dusky ; the shafts black ; the 

 nape brown, black, and white : all the upper parts black, each 

 feather broadly tipped with white ; the tertials and wing- 

 coverts are barred with white ; the quills dusky; the beak 

 black ; legs blackish-grey ; eyes dusky. 



In winter the forehead, chin, neck, sides of the breast, and 

 flanks are white, spotted with brown and grey : the head and 

 all the upper parts are dusky with grey edges and tips to the 

 feathers, the belly, thighs, vent, and upper tail-coverts are 

 white ; the tail white, transversely barred with brown, and 

 tipped with brown ochre. 



