324 PLOVER. 



ends, the others white, with the end half dusky ; second quills 

 mottled, several of the longest pale ash, with two spots of white on 

 each web, near the tip, and reach to within an inch of the greater 

 quills; lower part of the back and rump pale ash, and dusky, 

 appearing in waves ; tail doubly concave as in the Purre, the two 

 middle and the exterior feather on each side being the longest ; the 

 two middle are dusky, the others pale ash on the outer web and tips, 

 and white on the inner ; both upper and under tail coverts reach far 

 on the tail ; legs black ; the quills reach nearly to the end of the tail. 

 Found in Georgia in October; called Spotted Sandpiper. — Mr. 

 Abbot. 



10— CHESTNUT-BREASTED PLOVER. 



LENGTH seven inches and a half. Bill black ; plumage on the 

 upper parts of the body pale brown ; forehead white, behind it 

 mixed with black ; from the nostrils a black streak, passing under 

 the eye ; under parts from the chin white ; round the throat a bar of 

 black, and at the interval of half an inch, a broader bar of deep 

 ferruginous chestnut, passing under the wings ; quills deep brown, 

 with white shafts; tail rounded, the three outer feathers dusky white; 

 legs black. Native place uncertain. 



II— CURONIAN PLOVER. 



Charadrius Curonicus, lnd. Om.u. 750. Shrift, d. Berl. Nat. vii. 463. Beseke, Fog. 



Kurl. 66. No. 134. 

 Pluvialis torquata minor, Bris.v. 63. t. 5. f. 2. 7rf.8vo.ii. 227. 

 Charadrius minor, Petit Pluvier a Collier, Tern. Man. 330. Id. Ed. ii. 543. 

 Petit Pluvier a Collier, Buf. viii. 90. pi. 6. PI. eril. 921. 

 Curonian Plover, Gen. Syn. Sup. ii. 318. 



BILL dusky; the head, breast, belly, and vent white; on the 

 forehead a black crescent; crown grey; from the bill, through the 

 eye, an undulated dusky stripe; on the breast a black band ; back, 



