(57) 

 The Dottrel Morinellus. 



Numb. LXI, LXII. 



ITS Weight was four Ounces and a quarter; Length, from the Point 

 of the Bill to the End of the Tail, ten Inches ; Breadth, when the 

 Wings were extended, eighteen Inctes and a half; the Bill, meafuring 

 from the Tip to the Angles of the Mouth, was an Inch long ; the Head 

 elegantly variegated with white and black Spots, the middle Part of each 

 iingle Feather being black, above the Eyes was a long whitifli Line; the 

 Chin whitifh, the Throat was of a cinereous Colour inclining to a light 

 brown, as far as the broad white tranfverfe Line which encompaffes the 

 Breaft, and reaches above the Pinion of the Wings on each Side the 

 Breaft; under that Line it is of a dark bay or chefnut Colour, ending 

 near the Thighs in a broad Shadow of a blackiili brown; the lower 

 Belly and Thighs are white : the Wing hath about twenty five prime 

 Feathers, of which the firft or outmoft is the longeft, and hath a broad 

 ftrong v/hite Shaft, the tenth the fliorteft, from the tenth to the twentieth 

 they are almoft equal ; the reft to the twenty fourth are again longer, 

 the foregoing than the following, the three outmoft are blacker than the 

 reft, which are of a dusky or rediili brov/n- Colour : The leffer Rows of 

 the wing Feathers are brown with yellowilli Tips or Edges, the upper 

 Part of the Neck and Back are of the fame Colours with them : the Tail 

 is compofed of twelve Feathers, two Inches and a half long, the mid- 

 diemoft beincr the longeft of the fame colour of the Back: the Legs are 

 bare for a little Space above the Knees, of a brownifti Colour, with a 

 Tincture of green; the Feet a little darker, the Claws black, the inner 

 Toe is joined to the middle Toe at Bottom, the outer by a thick Mem- 

 brane as far as the firft Joint ; it wants the back Toe, wherein it agrees 

 with the Gree7i Plover: its Bill is ftreight and blackifti. It hath a 

 flefhy Stomach, in- which when I had diffeded it, I found fmall black 

 Beetles; its Guts were fourteen Inches and a half long. The Cock and 

 Hen agree in all the Colours and Marks excepting the black Shade at 

 the lower Part of the Breaft, which is the charadleriftick Mark of the 

 Cock. Thefe two Birds I received from Sir William Abdy-^ they were 

 fent to him from the Peak of Darby. 



