PLOVER. 34o 



A. — Bill brown ; head and chin black ; down the middle of the 

 crown rufous; over the eye a streak of white, beginning a little 

 beyond the bill, and reaching to the hindhead ; the sides under the 

 black nearly white : the neck and breast are rufous, the lower part 

 of the latter mottled with brown ; back the same, inclining more to 

 brown ; wing coverts and second quills dusky brown ; the greater 

 black, with a white base, forming a spot on the wing ; thighs mixed 

 rufous brown and black ; vent, upper tail coverts, and tail, pale 

 ash-colour, crossed with numerous dusky lines ; quills and tail even : 

 legs pale reddish brown. 



Inhabits India. — Sir J. Anstruther. It is called Napurka : at the 

 bottom of another drawing it is named Chauckur Shakree, or Chauc- 

 kur Tuthurry, and Tetaree : said to be found on the Snowy Moun- 

 tains of Surinagur, and to weigh two quarters and a half of a sare. 



39.— BLACK-CROWNED PLOVER. 



Charadrius atricapillus, Ind. Orn. ii. 745. Gm. Lin. i. 686. 

 Black-crowned Plover, Gen. Syn. v. 210. Arct. Zool. ii. No. 402. 



LENGTH ten inches. Bill one inch, red, with a black tip ; the 

 forehead black ; crown the same, surrounded with a circle of white; 

 throat white; neck and breast very light ash-coloured brown, divided 

 from the belly by a dusky, transverse streak ; belly and vent white ; 

 upper part of the body, and wings cinereous brown ; the prime quills 

 dusky, towards the bottom white ; base of the tail white, towards 

 the end black, the tip again white; legs very long, naked one inch 

 above the knee, and of a blood red ; toes very short. 



Inhabits the Province of New York, in North America, and has 

 much of the habit of the European Dotterel. 



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