PLOVER. 333 



the wing- and quills dusky black ; tail dusky, the outer feathers 

 varied with black and white ; legs red. 



One specimen had the back much mixed with ferruginous ; and 

 the rump wholly so; the crown brown, with only a black streak 

 down the middle, which may perhaps constitute difference of sex. 



Inhabits New South Wales; is now and then seen about Port 

 Jackson, but not a common bird. — Mr. Francillon. 



20.— RUSTY-CROWNED PLOVER. 



Charadrius Falklandicus, Ind. Orn. ii. 747. 



Rusty-crowned Plover, Gen. Syn. Sup. ii. 318. Portl. Voy. pi. in p. 36. 



SIZE of the Ringed Plover ; length seven inches and a half. 

 Bill three quarters of an inch, or more, black ; forehead, chin, and 

 neck before, the breast, and belly white ; across the top of the head 

 a bar of black, passing downwards on each side of the neck, irregu- 

 larly, to the wings ; and from thence forwards to the breast, forming 

 a broad bar thereon ; behind the black bar, on the top of the head, 

 is a stripe of ferruginous, encircling all the back part of the head as 

 a wreath ; the crown of the head within this, all the upper parts of 

 the body, and wings, are cinereous brown; but the greater quills and 

 tail are black ; legs black. The female chiefly differs in wanting 

 the wreath on the head. 



Inhabits Falkland Island, in the Pacific Ocean. 



21— COURLAND PLOVER. 



Charadrius naevius, Ind. Orn. ii. 750. Gm. Lin. i. 692. Schr. d. Berl. Naturf. vii. 



464. 49. 

 Courland Plover, Gen. Syn. Sup. ii. 319. 



THE bill and legs in this bird are dusky; beneath, from chin 

 to vent, white; the whole of the upper parts of the plumage grey, 



