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f?^ //' 1//U ^^^ ^^^^ Plover. Pluvialis cinerea. 



^ y ^ Numb. LXXVI. 



ITS Length from the tip of the Bill to the end of the Tail 

 is twelve Inches long, to the Claws fourteen Inches; 

 Breadth when the Wings are extended twenty four Inches. 

 Its Head, Back, and lefTer covert Feathers of the Wings are 

 black, with tips of a greenilh grey ; the Chin is white, the 

 ^ Throat, Breaft, Belly and Thighs white. The quill Fea- 



thers in each Wing are about twenty fix, of which the iirft 

 or outermofh are black ; in the fourth the middle Part of the 

 outer Edges is white, the white Part in the five following 

 being enlarged gradually ; the outermoft of the fecond Row 

 of Wing Feathers are alfo black ; the Tips of thofenext after 

 the fourth are white, and the Edges too after the tenth ; of 

 the third Row the foremoft ten are black with white Tips ; 

 the Tail is three Inches long, not forked, varied with tranf- 

 verfe Bars or Beds of black and white. Its Bill is black, 

 above an Inch long, like to the reft of this kind ; the Tongue 

 not cloven, the back Toe very fmall, and the fore Toes join- 

 ed by a Membrane at the Beginning of their Divarication ; 

 that between the middle and innermoft lefltr ; the Feet are 

 of a fordid green, and the Claws little and black : It hath a 

 Gall. The Flefli alfo of this Bird is very tender, favoury 

 and delicate, and in no iefs Efteem than that of the former. 



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