Class II. DOTTREL. 



them often in the cabinets of the curious at Paris, 

 taken on the French coails. 



477 



Morinellus avis anglica. Gef- 



ner a<v. 615. 



Wil. orn. 309. 



Rail fyn. a<v. III. 



Camden. Brit. I. 570. 



Pluvialis minor, five mori- 

 nellus, le petit Pluvier, 

 ou le Guignard. Brijfon 

 aw* V. 54. Tab. 4. < /g\ 2. 



Charadrius morinellus. Lin. 



fyft. 254. 

 Lappis Lahul. Faun. Siiec. fp, 



188. 

 Caii opufc. 96. 

 Cimbris Pomerants Fugl. Nor- 



<vegis Bold Tioet. Mindre 



Akerloe. Brunnich, 185. 

 i?r. Zool. 129. 



210. Dot- 

 trel. 



THE female dottrel, according to Mr. Willugh- 

 fy-> weighs more than four ounces ; the male 

 above half an ounce lefs. The length of the female 

 ten inches; the breadth nineteen and a half: the 

 male not fo large. The bill black, flender, de- 

 prefTed in the middle, and not an inch long : the 

 forehead, top and back of the head black, the 

 former fpotted with white ; a broad white ftroke 

 that prefies over the eyes, furrounds the whole : 

 the cheeks and throat are white : the neck of a 

 cinereous olive color: the middle of the feathers of 

 the back, and coverts of the wings and tail olive - 9 

 but their edges of a dull deep yellow : the quil- 

 feathers are brown, with brown fhafts ; but the ex- 

 terior fide and the fhaft of the firft feather is 

 white. The tail confifts of twelve feathers of a 

 farown olive color, barred near their ends with 



black 3 



Descri?. 



