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ORD. I. GEN. VII. PLOVER. 



SPE. IV. RINGED PLOVER. 



PL 185. 



Charadrius hiaticula. Lin. Syft. I. p. 253. 

 Petit Pluvier a Collier. Brif. Orn. V. p. 63. 



This fpecies is about feven inches and half in length, fixteen in breadth,, 

 and weighs near two ounces. The bill is orange coloured at the bafe, black 

 toward the point, and the upper mandible a little longer than the lower : the 

 eyes are hazel : the forehead, white ; which colour extends a little behind the 

 eyes : acrofs the head, a black band parTes from eye to eye : from the bill to 

 the eye, a narrow black ftreak, growing broader when it reaches the eye, and 

 extending to the back part of the neck : the crown of the head, light brown : 

 the upper part of the neck, encircled with a white collar ; the lower part, with 

 a black one : the back, and wing coverts, light brown ; the greater coverts, 

 partly tipped with white ; the longer quill feathers, black at the ends : the 

 middle of the tail coverts, brown 3 the fides, white : the tail feathers, black to- 

 ward the end, and tipped with white : the under parts and fides of the body,, 

 white : legs, orange colour. 



The female is a little lefs than the male, is not fo diftinflly marked, and on 

 the whole has fomewhat of a browner hue, but does not differ materially in. 

 colour. 



The ringed plover breeds in the Ifle of Sheppey, and remains with us all the 

 year. For the egg fee PI, XL. Fig. 2. 



