344 PLOVER. 



A. — Size the same. Bill half black half orange; crown black; 

 over the eyes a white streak, passing on each side backwards to the 

 hindhead, as a wreath ; and this again bounded by black ; all the 

 upper parts pale brown ; fore part of the neck dusky white ; on the 

 breast a black bar; chin, belly, and vent, white ; quills dusky black, 

 some of the inner ones margined with white ; tail white, crossed 

 with a black bar, one inch broad, near the end, which is white ; 

 legs long, and red. — Inhabits the Cape of Good Hope, and called 

 the Red-eyed Plover. 



38.— BLACK-HEADED PLOVER. 



Charadrius melanocephalus, Ind. Orn. ii. 750. Gm. Lin. i. 692. 

 Le Pluvian du Senegal, Buf. viii. 104. PL enl. 918. 

 Black-headed Plover, Gen. Syn. v. 217. 



LENGTH eight inches and a quarter. Bill black ; crown of 

 the head and sides, including the eye, black ; from the nostrils a 

 white streak passes over the eye to the hindhead ; beneath this, 

 behind the neck, and down the middle of the back, glossy black; 

 the black feathers take rise at the middle of the back, but the lower 

 ones, being two inches long, extend so far bej'ond the rest, as to 

 form a pointed shape; the rest of the back, wing coverts, and scapu- 

 lars, fine blue grey; at the bend of the wing a small knob; from the 

 beginning of the back the black passes forward on the breast as a 

 narrow collar; chin white, the rest of the under parts buff-colour, 

 deepest on the under tail coverts ; under wing coverts white ; quills 

 more or less black at first, then whitish to the end, the tips brown ; 

 the outer feather white a very little way from the base; tail blue 

 grey : all but the two middle feathers have a narrow black bar near 

 the end, where they are, for half an inch, white ; the quills reach 

 nearly to the end of the tail ; legs pale blue ; claws black. 



Inhabits Senegal. — In the collection of Lord Stanley. 



