‘100 
2, Lone 
LEGGED. 
Descrir- 
TION. 
LONG LEGGED PLOVER. Cuass II. 
PLUVIER, pource guon le prend nueux en ~ 
pluoieur. gwen nulle autre saison.* 
Charadrius Himantopus. Ch. 
albus, dorso nigro, rostro 
nigro capite longiore, pedi- 
bus longissimis. Lath. Ind. 
orn. 741. id. Syn. v- 195. 
ad. Sup. i. 252. 
Le grand Chevalier d’Italie. 
Belon Portr. d Oyseaux, 53. 
Aldr. av. iii. 176. 
Gesner av. 546. 
Rai Syn. av. 106. 
Sibb. Scot. 19. Tab. 11. 13- © 
L’Echasse. Brisson av. v. 33. 
Fist. d ois. 
Tab. 3. fig. 1. 
vill. 114. Pl. Enl.878. 
Charadrius himantopus. 
Lin. 690. 
Scopoli, No. 148. 
Br. Zool. 128. add. 
Arct. Zool. ii. 198. 
Gm. 
plates. 
Himantopus. Wii. orn. 297. 
THIS is the most singular of the British birds. 
The legs are of a length and weakness greatly 
disproportioned to the body, which is inferior 
in size to that of the golden plover: this, added 
to the defect of the back toe, must render its 
paces aukward and infirm. The naked part of 
the thigh is three inches and a half long; the 
legs four and a half; these, and the feet, are of 
a blood red; the bill is black, above two inches 
The length from the tip of the bill to the 
end of the tail is thirteen inches; the breadth from 
tip to tip of the wing twenty-nine inches; the 
forehead, and whole under side of the body, are 
long. 
* Belen Oyseauz. 260. 
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