350 PLOVER. 



lesser quills, are light rufous grey ; beneath from the breast, and 

 under the wings,' white ; the tail is nearly four inches long ; the base 

 for two inches and a half white, the rest black to the end, with the 

 tip white; quills black, more or less white half way from the base; 

 and a streak of white passes from the bend of the wing obliquely 

 across the base of the quills ; legs red ; at the bend of the wing a 

 small short knob, not to be called a spur. 



Inhabits Senegal. In the PL enlum. the tail appears to be 

 wholly black. A perfect specimen in the collection of Lord Stanley, 

 answers to the above description. 



44 —DWARF PLOVER. 



Charadrius Pusillus, Lin. Trans, xiii. p. 187. — Horsfield. 



SIZE not mentioned ; but from the name, we should conceive it 

 to be a small species. Plumage above cinereous brown; beneath 

 white; the colour of the upper parts continued as a band on the 

 breast; the middle tail feathers cinereous brown, with a band of a 

 deeper colour towards the end. 



Inhabits Java. 



