PLOVER. 329 



A. — Length not quite six inches. Bill black; crown, nape, and 

 part of the neck behind fine ferruginous; forehead white, bounded 

 between that and the ferruginous with a bar of black, which passes 

 through the eye and sides of the neck, and finishes in a patch just 

 above the wing ; all beneath white ; back and wings pale ash, the 

 feathers edged with pale tawny; the quills dusky, with white shafts; 

 three outer tail feathers white; the others dusky ; the fourth dusky 

 in the middle ; under wing coverts white; wings full as long as the 

 tail, or reach a trifle beyond it; legs black. 



Inhabits New-Holland. — In the collection of Lord Stanley. 



We have met with birds in India drawings so very little differing, 

 as not to merit description; some were named Sun-ek-ee; others, 

 paler in colour, were called Guddee. 



14— WILSON'S PLOVER. 



Charadrius Wilsonii, Wilson's Plover, Atner. Orn. ix. 77. pi. 73. f. 5. 



THIS bird is near eight inches long; and extent of wing fifteen. 

 Bill black; forehead white, passing over the eye ; the crown brown; 

 next the forehead dusky black ; from the nostrils to the eye, and 

 beyond, a streak of black ; sides of the head dirty white ; chin and 

 neck white, passing round as a collar ; upper part of the body olive 

 drab, tending towards the breast, but as it continues, forms a black 

 bar there ; all beneath, from thence, white ; quills black ; legs pale 

 or flesh-colour; claws and ends of the toes black. 



The female differs, in having no black on the forehead, lore, or 

 breast, those parts being pale olive. 



Inhabits America; shot on the shore of Cape Island, New Jersey, 

 on the 13th of May, 1813. Supposed to be a distinct species. 



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