330 PLOVER. 



15.— BLACK-THROATED PLOVER. 



LENGTH six inches. The bill black ; forehead buff-colour, 

 changing over the eye into a spot of white ; the crown of the head 

 black, bounded behind with pale rufous; from the gape to the eye 

 a black streak ; all the upper parts of the neck, back, and wings 

 pale brown, the margins of the feathers paler ; greater coverts and 

 second quills tipped with white ; greater quills dusky, with white 

 shafts; tail rounded, the three outer feathers white ; the third marked 

 with dusky on the inner web ; beneath, from the chin, white ; above 

 the breast a black bar, ending at the wing, where it finishes in a 

 rufous spot ; legs slender, pale brown. In the female, the black 

 bar is smaller, and not rufous at the wings. 



Native place uncertain. — In the collection of Mr. Bullock. 



16.— ALEXANDRINE PLOVER. 



Chaladrius Alexandrinus, hid. Orn. ii. 744. Lin. i. 253. Gin. Lin. i. CS3. Hasselq. 



if. 255. 30. Id. Engl. 140. Brun.App.77. Midler, No. 210. 

 Le Pluvier a Collier, Bris. v. GO. t. 5. f. 1. female? Id. 8vo. ii. 226. 

 Alexandrine Plover, Gen. %».v. 203. 9. Id. Sup.il. 315. 



SIZE of a Lark. Bill black, towards the tip gibbous; head and 

 back grey; forehead, to the base of the bill, white, continued in a 

 line over the eyes ; across the head, from eye to eye, black ; on the 

 ear a spot of the same; a ring of white, half an inch broad, round 

 the neck, from the chin and throat; on each side of the neck, below 

 this white collar, a broad bar of black; the lower part of the neck, 

 grey, and continued forwards on each side, but does not quite 

 meet before ; breast, belly, and vent white ; the lesser wing coverts 

 dusky, tipped with white ; the rest as the back ; great quills dusky 

 grey, within whitish ; the two exterior equal, shaft of the first white; 



