340 PLOVER. 



black, with white shafts; tail the same, crossed with whitish bands; 

 legs blue; claws black, and blunt. — Inhabits the shores and marshy 

 places of Otaheite. 



Communicated by Dr. J. R. Forster. 



A. — Length eight inches. Bill one inch, dark brown ; nostrils 

 pervious; plumage on the upper parts of the body brown, margins 

 of the feathers golden yellow ; beneath white, except the breast, 

 which is dusky pale brown ; quills brown, the end half of the shafts 

 white ; the secondaries as long as the quills, and both of them reach 

 to the end of the tail, and hide it; the last is two inches long, brown, 

 marked with obscure, pale brown, spots on each side of the webs; the 

 legs about two inches long, pale yellow. Native place uncertain. 



This was in the Leverian Museum, and seems to correspond with 

 the Fulvous Plover, though less in size. 



29.— WHITE-BELLIED PLOVER. 



Charadrius leucogaster, hid. Orn. ii. 748. Gm. Lin. i. 687. 

 White-bellied Plover, Gen. Si/n. v. 212. 18. 



LENGTH six inches. Bill one inch ; the plumage above dirty 

 brown; forehead white; above and beneath the eye a streak of the 

 same; under parts white; the secondaries and prime quills equal in 

 length ; some of the first white halfway from the base, shafts white; 

 six of the middle tail feathers brown; the outer of these white just 

 at the base and tip; the three exterior ones white; the last but one 

 with a brown spot on the inner web, near the end ; the third black 

 at the end ; legs pale blue. — Found in the same Collection with the 

 last; native place uncertain. 



