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LONG LEGGED PLOVER. Ciass II. 



209. Long 

 Legged. 



Le grand Chevalier d ? Ita- 

 lie. Belon * Portr. d''Oy- 

 feaux, 53. 



' Aldr. a<v 



Gefner a<v. 546 



Himantopus. WiL cm. 297 



Rail Jyn. au. 106. 



III. 176. 



Sibb. Scot. 19. 'Tab. II. 13. 

 L' EchaiTe. Brifibnav. V. 33. 



Tab. 3. fig. 1. 

 Charadrius himantopus. Lin. 

 fyfi. 255. Scopoli, No. 148. 

 Br. Zool. 128. <&&/. plates. 



npHIS is the moft lingular of the Britifh birds. 

 -*- The legs are of a length, and weaknefs great- 

 ly difproportioned to the body, which is inferior 

 in fize to that of the green plover: this, added to 

 the defc£t of the back toe, muft render its paces 

 Descrip. aukward and infirm. The naked part of -the thigh 

 is three inches and a half long-, the legs four and a 

 half: theie, and the feet are of a blood red: the 

 bill is black, above two inches long. The length 

 from its tip 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 fide 

 of the body are white : the crown of the head, 

 back, and wings black : on the hind part of the 

 neck are a few black fpots : the tail is of a greyifh 

 white: the wings when clofed extend far beyond it. 

 Thefe birds are extremely rare in thefe ifiands : Sir 

 Robert Sibbald records a brace that were fhot in 

 Scotland: another was fnot a few vears aor> on Stan- 

 tun-Har court common near Oxford, and we have igqii 



them 



