PLOVER. 325 



wings, and tail grey, with pale dull markings; the three first quills 

 dusky, shaft of the outer white; the upper tail feathers black at the 

 ends; irides yellow ; legs reddish. 



Inhabits Courland, feeding on insects; lays five whitish eggs, 

 with some large spots of black, and others less distinct ; has much 

 the appearance of the Ringed Plover, but M. Natterer, of Vienna, 

 asserts, that the two birds are specifically different, and gives as one 

 reason, that the lesser sort breeds on the banks of the Danube, but 

 the other is not found in that part of the country in the breeding 

 season. 



12 —RINGED PLOVER. 



Charadrius Hiaticula, Ind. Orn. ii. 743. Lin. i. 253. Fn. suec. No. 187. Gtn. Lin. i. 



G83. Gm. reise, iv. 141. Scop. i. No. 147. Brun. No. 184. Muller, No. 209. 



Kram. 354. 4. Frisch, t. 214. Georgi, p. 172. Fn. Groenl. No. 78. Raii, 112. 



A. 6. Id. 190. 13. Will. 230. t. 57. Borowsk. iii. 109. 2. Fn. Helv. Sepp,\n; 



t. p. 260. Lin. Trans, xii. p. 534. Id. xiii. 328. Tern. Man. 329. Id. Ed. ii. 



539. Parry's App. p. cc. Bartr. Trav. p. 294. Gerin. iv. t. 479. 

 Gavia littoralis, Klein, 21. 6. Id. Stem. iii. f. 4. a. b. 

 Iaticula, Cett. Uc. Sard. 259. 

 Pluvier a Collier, PI. enl. 920. 



Strand-pfeifer, Naturf. x\\\. 217. Bechst. Deutsch.iu, 214. t. xi. 

 Le Mbatuitui a Collier noir, Voy. d'Azara,\v. No. 392. 

 Ringed Plover, Gen. Syn. v. p. 201. Br. Zool. ii. No. 211. Id.fol. 129. t. add. Id. 



1812. ii. p. 105. Arct. Zool. ii. No. 401. Bewick, \. pi. p. 334. Leicin, v. pi. 



184. Id. pi. xxxiv. 1. the egg. Wale. ii. pi. 161. Donov.'i. pi. 18. Pull. Dors. 



p. 16. Lin. Trans. -vU. 281. Orn. Diet. Amer. Orn.v'n. p. 65, pi. 59. f. 3. 



LENGTH from seven to eight inches. Bill orange, the end half 

 black ; base of the upper mandible, and through the eyes, to the 

 ears, black; forehead white; behind this, from eye to eye, a black 

 band ; the rest of the head pale brown ; the chin and throat white, 

 passing round the neck in a broad collar ; beneath this, on the lower 

 part of the neck, is a second of black, encircling the neck behind, 

 growing narrow as it passes backward ; breast and under parts white ; 

 back and wing coverts pale brown ; quills dusky, mixed with some 



