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eyelids red; the fore part of the head, taking in the eyes, the chin, 

 and throat, black, passing backwards in a collar at the hindhead ; 

 the back part of it, behind the eye, greenish ash-colour ; these two 

 colours divided by white ; the back and wing coverts greenish ash ; 

 quills and tail dusky ; the last order of coverts white for some part of 

 the length, forming a bar on the wing; body beneath white; legs red. 

 Inhabits Queen Charlotte's Sound; called Doodooroa-atto. — Sir 

 Joseph Banks. 



27— DUSKY PLOVER. 



Charadrius obscurus, Ind. Urn. ii. 747. Gm. Lin. i. 686. 

 Dusky Plover, Gen. Syn. v. 211. 16. 



LARGER than a Snipe. Bill black ; forehead pale reddish 

 white; plumage on the upper parts dusky, the edges of the feathers 

 pale; chin and fore part of the neck dusky white; the rest of the 

 parts beneath dusky yellow oker, with a reddish tinge ; marked on 

 the neck with pale and dusky streaks, and mottled transversely on 

 the sides with narrow lines; quills dusky ; legs bluish ; claws black. 



Inhabits New Zealand ; found at Dusky Bay : the name Hapo- 

 hoera. — Sir Joseph Banks. 



28.— FULVOUS PLOVER. 



Charadrius fulvus, Ind. Urn. ii. 747. Gm. Lin. i. 687. 

 Fulvous Plover, Gen. Syn. v. 211. 17. 



LESS than the Lapwing ; length twelve inches and a half. Bill 

 dusky ; irides bluish black; plumage above wholly black, with the 

 margins of the feathers fulvous yellow ; forehead and throat dusky 

 white ; breast fulvous, spotted with black ; the rest beneath dusky 

 white, spotted as the breast; wing coverts black, with fulvous spots; 

 the lower order brown black, tipped with white ; the quills brownish 



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