PLOVER. 317 



behind the white, between the eyes, a black spot ; the rest of the 

 head grey brown, the feathers edged with rufous ; chin, throat, and 

 neck before, white, passing round the last ; beneath that a black 

 collar, broad on the fore part ; rest of the under parts white, except 

 a bar of black, mixed with white, on the breast ; back and scapulars 

 grey brown, like the head; rump and upper tail coverts rufous; the 

 four middle tail feathers brown, with rufous tips ; the others rufous, 

 the outmost white ; all but the two middle crossed with a black bar 

 near the ends ; some of the wing coverts are edged with rufous, and 

 others with white ; the greater quills black on the outer webs, and 

 marked with white on the shaft near the end ; legs blue grey. 

 Inhabits St. Domingo. 



4.— COLLARED PLOVER. 



Charadrius Jamaicensis, Ind. Orn. ii. 743. Gm. Lin. i. 685. 



Pluvialis Jamaicensis torquata, Bris. v. 75. Id. 8vo. ii. 230. 



Pluvialis ex fusco et albo varia, cauda longiore, Rail, 190. 10. Sloan. Jam. 318. t. 



■265. f. 3. 

 Large grey Snipe, Brown, Jam. 477. 

 Collared Plover, Gen. Syn. v. 201. 7. 



LENGTH eight inches. Bill black ; irides orange ; upper part 

 of the head, neck, body, and wings dull brown ; throat, fore part 

 of the neck, belly, thighs, and vent white ; at the lower part of the 

 neck the white passes round as a collar ; breast spotted black and 

 white; quills dull brown ; the tail whitish, varied with rufous and 

 blackish ; legs white, the joints dusky ; the claws black. — Inhabits 

 Jamaica, found on the banks of rivers : probably allied to the last. 



5— LONG-LEGGED PLOVER. 



Charadrius Himantopus, Ind. Orn. ii. 741. Lin. i. 255. Gm. Lin. i. 690. Scop. i. 

 No. 248. Gm. reise, i. 152. t. 52. Id. iv. 148. Borowsk. iii. 113. 7. Fn. Helv. 

 Gerin. iv. t. 470. Nat. Misc. pi. 195. Shatv's Zool. Led. i. t. 80. Lin. Trans. 

 xiii. p. 194. 



