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 The Green Plover, Pluvialis viridis. 

 Numb. LXXV. 



IN Bignefs it equals or exceeds the Lapwing, weighing about nine Oun- 

 ces; its Length from the Tip of the Bill to the End of the Tail is 

 eleven Inches; Breadth when the Wings arc extended twenty four Inches; 

 its Colour on the Top of the Head, Neck, Shoulders, Back, and in gene- 

 ral the whole upper Side, is of a dark brown, thick fet with yellowifh green 

 Spots. If you obferve each iingle Feather, you will find the middle part 

 to be dark brown,inclining to a black, and the Borders or Edges round about 

 fpotted with a yellowifh green Colour ; the Bill is ftreight and black, an 

 Inch long, furrowed about the Noftrils ; the Neck is fhort, equal to a Lap- 

 wings, ; the Breaft is of a pale brown, fpotted with a little deeper Shade 

 of the fame Colour ; the Belly is white, yet fome Feathers on the Sides 

 arc faintly fpotted with brown. 



Of the quill Feathers in each Wing the eleventh Ends in a blunt Point, 

 thofe before it running out into fharp Points on the outfide the Shaft, thofe 

 behind it on the infide ; all but the five next the Body are brown ; the Shafts 

 of the outcrmoft eight or nine are half way white ; the exterior Edges of 

 the fifth and thofe following it are a little white towards their Bottoms ; 

 the innermofl: five next the Body are of the fame Colour with the Back ; 

 the fecondRow of Wing Feathers are brown, or dufky with white Tips; 

 the reft of the covert Feathers of the upper Side of the Wing are of the 

 fame Colour with the Back, thofe on the under Side, with the Belly ; the 

 Tail is fhort, made up of twelve Feathers of the fame Colour with the 

 Back, when fpread, terminated in a circular Circumference. 



The Feet and Claws are black ; it wants the back Toe ; and by its Note 

 alone it is abundantly diftinguifhed from the other Birds of its Kind ; its 

 Legs are long as in all other Birds which live about Waters, and bare of 

 Feathers for fome Space above the Knees ; its Flefh is fweet and tender, 

 and therefore highly efteemed, and accounted a choice Di£h as well in 

 England 2.^ beyond Sea. This Bird from its Spots, fomethjng refembling 

 thofe of a Leopard-, is called Pardalh. 



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