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ORD. I. GEN. VII. PLOVER. 



SPE. V. KENTISH PLOVER. 

 PI. 1 86. 



This bird is fomewhat lefs than the preceding, in length fix inches and half, 

 in breadth fifteen. The bill is black: top of the head, ruft-colour, banded on 

 the forepart with black: forehead, white: through the eye, from the bill, 

 black, ending in a curve on the ear : all the lower parts of the vent, white : at 

 the moulder, a mottled black patch : the upper parts of the body and wings, 

 pale brown ; the quills, darkeft : the three outer tail feathers, white, but the 

 innermoft of thefe inclines to dufky on the inner web, except at the tip ; the 

 others are pale aih-colour at the bafe, growing dufky toward the ends; the 

 two middle ones, wholly dufky : legs, black. 



We have fome reafon to think, that this bird is a diftincl: fpecies, though it 

 has not been defcribed by any author that has come under our inflection. 

 By fome it has been taken for the young of the ringed plover, but in that the 

 legs and bill are not black in any flage : befides, being met with on our coafts 

 in April and May, there is reafon to fuppofe it comes here for the purpofe of 

 breeding, and, confequently, is in the adult plumage. The fpecimen from 

 which our figure has been taken is in the collection of Mr. Latham, who had 

 it from Mr. Boys of Sandwich, about which place the birds are met with. 



