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to find the eggs. In about' seventeen days the } r oung run 

 about, at which time the parents become very uneasy, and 

 flutter about the person who approaches, uttering their 

 cry of fear, pwee, pwee ! pitt, pitt ! or tirrr, tirrr ! 



The measurements of the Kentish Plover are as follows : 

 its entire length, nearly seven inches ; its wing from the 

 carpus to the tip measures four inches four lines ; the tarsus 

 one inch, and the beak seven lines. 



The plumage of the adult male in summer is bistre over 

 all the upper parts, from the root of the neck to the tip of 

 the tail ; the greater wing-coverts are tipped with white ; a 

 white base to the secondary feathers, and white shaft to the 

 spurious wing; the two outer tail-feathers are white; the fore- 

 head, and a broad streak over the eyes, white ; the space be- 

 tween the beak and eye black, which colour extends below the 

 eyes as far as the ear-coverts ; the chin, cheeks, throat, breast, 

 belly, vent, and under tail-coverts are pure white ; on the 

 sides of the breast above, and under the carpus of the wing, 

 is a perfect black patch ; the frontal part of the top of the 

 head is black ; the top and back part of the head brown 

 ochreous-yellow ; the eye-lids are white ; eyes brown ; the 

 beak and legs are bluish black ; claws black. In the female 

 the black markings are dusky and more confined. 



The young of the year differs by having the crown and 

 back part of the head yellowish-brown ; the space between 

 the beak and eyes, and the band below the eyes, and 

 ear-coverts, yellow-brown ; the colours on the back are paler, 

 and the patch on the sides of the upper part of the breast 

 is cinereous pale-brown, surrounded by ochre-yellow. 



The egg figured 225 is that of the Kentish Plover. 



END OF THE FIFTH VOLUME. 



London : — Printed by S. & J. Bentley, Wilson, and Fley, Bangor House, Shoe Lane. 



