Crass IL LONG LEGGED PLOVER. 
white; the crown of the head, back, and wings, 
black; on the hind, part of the neck are a few 
black spots; the tail is of a greyish white; the 
wings when closed extend far beyond it.* 
These birds are extremely rare in these islands: 
Sir Robert Sibbald records a brace that were shot 
in Scotland: another was shot a few years ago 
on Stanton-Harcourt common, near Oxford,t 
and we have seen them often in the cabinets 
of the curious at Paris, taken on the French 
coasts. 
* A good figure of this rare bird, with some excellent obser-: 
vations by the reverend Hugh Davies, and corrections of the 
error into which some eminent naturalists had fallen relative to 
the shape of the bill, are given in the third volume of Dr. Shaw’s 
Naturalist’s Miscellany. Ep. 
+ Mr. White, Fleet Street, had a specimen, shot out of a 
small flock which were seen on Frenchmen’s ponds in Hamp- 
shire. Eb. 
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