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DOTTREL PLOVER. Crass Il. 
3. DoTTREL. Charadrius Morinellus. Ch. 
Descrip- 
TION, 
pectore ferrugineo, fascia su- 
perciliorum pectorisque li- 
neari alba, pedibus nigris. 
Lath. Ind. orn. 746. id. 
Syn. v. 208. 
Morinellus avis anglica. Ges- 
ner av. 615. 
Wil. orn. 309. » 
Rait Syn. av. 111. 
Camden. Brit. i. 570. 
Pluvialis minor, sive morinel- 
lus, le petit Pluvier, ou le 
Guignard. Brisson av.y. 54. 
Tab. 4. fig. 2. Hist. ois. 
viii. 87. Pl. Enl. 832. 
Charadrius morinellus. Gm. 
Lin. 690. 
Lappis Lahul. Faun. Suec. sp. 
188. 
Cai opuse. 96. 
Cimbris Pomerants Fugl. Nor- 
vegis Bold Ticet. Mindre 
Akerloe. Brunnich, 185. 
Br. Zool. 129. D. Arct. Zool. 
ii. 194. 
THE female dottrel, according to Mr. /Vil- 
lughby, weighs more than four ounces; the 
male above half an ounce less. ‘The length of 
the female ten inches; the breadth nineteen 
and a half; the male not so large. The bill 
black, slender, depressed in the middle, and not 
an inch long; the forehead, top, and back of 
the head black, the former spotted with white ; 
a broad white stroke that passes over the eyes, 
surrounds the whole; the cheeks and throat 
are white ; the neck is of a cinereous olive color ; 
the middle of the feathers of the back, and 
coverts of the wings and tail olive, but their 
edges of a dull deep yellow; the quil feathers 
are brown, with brown shafts, but the exterior 
