316 PLOVER. 



Chattering Plover, Kill-deer, Cates. Car. i, pi. 71. Amer. Orn. vii. 73. pi. 59. f. 6. 

 Noisy Plover, Gen. Syn. v. 199. Arct. Zool. ii. No. 400. Frankl. Narr. App. p. 083. 



SIZE of a Snipe ; length nine inches. Bill black ; eyelids red ; 

 eyes black ; forehead white ; between the eyes, across the head, a bar 

 of black, passing on each side to the hindhead ; the chin and fore 

 part of the neck white, encircling the lower part of the neck, and 

 accompanied by black all round; on the breast another black bar; 

 and except these all the under parts are white ; the hind part of the 

 head, neck, body, and wings, are dusky brown ; rump rusty orange; 

 the feathers very long ; some of those, which tall over the greater 

 quills, fringed with white ; the last black ; a few of the outer ones 

 have white shafts; tail like the rump, rounded at the end, near 

 which is a bar of black ; the tip white ; legs pale yellow. Male and 

 female much alike. 



Inhabits America; is found at New York, Carolina, and Virginia ; 

 in the latter remains throughout the year, and is there called Kill- 

 deer, from the note resembling that word ; migrates to New York in 

 spring, where it breeds, making the nest among the grass, on the 

 sides of ponds, and lays three or four brownish white eggs, marked 

 with irregular blotches and scratches of blackish purple ; it returns 

 south in autumn. Is a very clamorous, restless species, and, like the 

 Jay in England, sets up its cry on the approach of any one, to the 

 entire disappointment of the sportsman. This species, we are 

 inclined to believe, breeds as far south as Georgia, having received 

 the eggs from Mr. Abbot, of Savannah. 



A. — Charadrius torquatus, Lin. i. 255. Ind. Orn. ii. 743. 



Pluvialis Boniinieensis torquata, Bris. v. 70. t. 6. f. 2. Id. 8vo. ii. 229. Gerin. iv. 



t. 477. 

 Pluvier a Collier de St. Domingue, PL enl. 286. Gen. Syn. v. 206. 6. Var. A. 

 Regenpfeifer mit dem Halskragen, Bechst. Deutsch. iii. 221. 



In this the bill is blue grey, with a black tip ; forehead white, 

 passing through the eyes, and ending at some distance backwards ; 



