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ORD. I. GEN. VII. PLOVER. 



SPE. VII. EUROPEAN COURSER. 

 PI. 1 88. 



This lingular and rare bird has been met with only once in England. It 

 is nearly the fize of the golden plover, but of a more flender make. Its 

 length, ten inches. The bill is three quarters of an inch long, flender, and 

 bent at the tip. The general colour of the plumage, an elegant cream colour, 

 darkeft on the back, and verging to white on the under parts : behind the eye 

 is an obfcure duiky ftreuk : the top of the head is darker than the reft, inclin- 

 ing to ruft-colour, and dotted with dufky fpots : through the eye a pale ftreak, 

 paffing to the hind head : the quills black : the tail much the fame colour as 

 the body, and all its feathers, except the two middle ones, marked with black 

 near the tip : the legs, long, and of a yellowifh white. 



This bird has many things in common with one defcribed by Buffon, which 

 was lhot in France, and is figured in the Planches Enluminees, 795 : but in that 

 the mark behind the eye appears of a deep black, and the trace through the 

 eye nearly white, both which, in the above bird, are but litde confpicuous 5, 

 hence it is probable, that the two may be of oppofite fexes. That from which 

 our figure is taken is in the poffeffion of Mr. Latham, and was fhot in Eaft 

 Kent. 





