328 PLOVER. 



St 



13.— KENTISH PLOVER. 



Charadrius Cantianus, Ind. Orn. Sup. p. lxvi. 



Cliaradrius Cantianus, Pluvier a Collier interrompu, Tern. Man. 332. Id. Ed. ii. 544. 



Lin. Trans, xiii. p. 187. 

 Kentish Plover, Gen. Syn. Sup. ii. 316. Lewin, Birds, v. pi. 185. Lin. Trans, vit. 



281. Orn. Diet. Sf Supp. 



SIZE of the Ringed Plover; length six inches and a half; 

 breadth fifteen ; weight one ounce and a half. Bill black, three 

 quarters of an inch from the gape to the tip, more slender than in 

 the Ringed Plover, and less stout at the base; top of the head 

 ferruginous brown, bounded on the fore part with black ; forehead 

 white, passing over the eye, and a little beyond it; from the bill 

 through the eye a black streak, growing broader behind the eye, 

 and reaching over the ear; all beneath, from the chin to vent, white, 

 passing round the neck as a collar; on each side of the breast next 

 to the shoulder of the wing is a black patch ; back and wings pale 

 brown ; quills dusky, the shaft of outer one wholly, and the middle 

 of next white ; greater wing coverts, for the most part, tipped with 

 white; tail rounded in shape, not unlike the quills ; the three outer 

 feathers white, except a dusky spot on the inner web of the outmost 

 but two; the others have the bases very pale half way, but the two 

 middle ones are pale brown ; legs bluish black. 



We have received several specimens, some years since, from Sand- 

 wich, near which they were shot, both in April and May. The bill 

 and legs were black; in one the nape pale reddish bay, in another 

 pale brown, inclining to bay towards the nape ; the three outer tail 

 feathers white, the inner of these inclining to dusky on the inner 

 web ; the next very pale brown, or brownish white, with a dusky 

 tip ; the four. middle brown, with dusky ends, approaching to black ; 

 in one specimen the black at the bend of the wing was much larger, 

 and tended on each side towards the breast. 



