ClafsII. DOTTREL. S 3i 



in thefc iflands : Sir Robert Sibbald records a brace 

 that were fhot in Scotland : we have feen them often 

 in the cabinets of the curious at Paris, taken on the 

 French coafls. 



V. The DOTTREL: 



Morinellus avis anglica. Gefner Charadrlus morinellus. Lin. fyji. 



_f- 6l 5- 254. 



Wtl. orn. 309. LappisLahul. Faun. Suec./p. 188. 



Raiifyn.av.XW. Caii opufc. 96. 



Camden. Brit. i. 570. C«»£wPorrierantsFugl. Norvegis 



Pluvialis minor, five morinellus, Bold Tiost. Mindre Akerloc. 



le petit Pluvier, ou le Guig- Brunnich 185. 



nard. BriJJon a<u. v. 54. tab. Br. Zoo/. 1 29. 



4- fig; 2. 



THE female dottrel, according to Mr. Wil- 

 loughby, weighs more than four ounces •, the 

 male above half an ounce lefs. The length of the fe- Defer, 

 male ten inches ; the breadth nineteen and a half; the 

 male not fo large. The bill black, (lender, deprefTed 

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

 top and back of the head of a brown black, the 

 former fpotted with white % a broad white ftroke that 

 pafTes over the eyes, furrounds the whole : the cheeks 

 and throat are white : the neck of a deep olive color : 

 the middle of the feathers of the back, and coverts 

 of the tail, and of the wings, are alfo olive ; but 

 their edges of a dull deep yellow i the quil- feathers 

 are brown, with black fhafts-, but the exterior fide of 

 the firlt feather is white. The tail coniifts of twelve 

 feathers of a brown olive color, but their ends are 

 black. The bread and fides are of a dull orange 

 B b 2, color; 



