6£ BIRDS. GRALLiE. 39. 40. 



39. C1IARADRIUS. Plover. 



203. Ch. plavialis. Blackish with yellowish-green spots : 

 front, belly and vent white : legs blackish. 



Golden Plover. Brit. ZooL t.79., Lewin t. 182. Wale. t. 158. 



Length above 10 inches : extent 24 inches : weight 9 ounces. 



Bill dusky: iris dull red: orbits and chin whitish : quills dusky, 

 slightly edged with grey at .the ends: belly sometimes black, or 

 mixed black and white : tail with dusky and yellowish bars : feet 

 with sometimes a small toe behind. 



204. Ch. Cantianus. Grey-brown, beneath, front, and 

 throat white : crown crossed by a black band : hind- 

 head ferruginous : bill and legs blackish. 



Kentish Plover. Lewin t. 186. Lath. Suppl. 2. p. 316. 



•Size of the last, from which it differs in having the bill and legs 

 blackish, in wanting the broad black collar beneath the white one, 

 in having a broad black patch near the shoulders, in the hind-head 

 being of a pale ferruginous, and in having the end of the tail black 

 and more pointed. 



205. Ch. Calidris. Bill and legs blackish: lores and 

 rump greyish : head and back grey, with slight dusky 

 streaks : front and body. beneath white, immaculate. 



Sanderling, Curwillet. Br. ZooL t.73. Lewin t. 184. 



Length 8 inches : extent 15 inches :, weight near 2 ounces. 



Bill an inch long : iris dusky ; cheeks and over the eyes white : 

 Body above grey with dusky shafts : quills dusky, the fecondaries 

 grey tipt with white : tail shorter than the wings, grey with paler 

 margins. Female with a ferruginous tinge. Young bird with large 

 black anguhar fpots on the back. 



206. Ch. Hiaticula. Grey-brown, beneath white : crown 

 crossed by a black band : neck with a white collar, 

 beneath which is a broad black-one : legs orange. 



Ringed Plover. Lewin t. 185. Donov. t. 18, Wakot. t. 161. 



Length 7 or 8 inches : extent 16 inches : weight nearly 2 ounces. 



Bill orange,' tipt with black : iris hazel j from the bill to the 

 eyes a black stripe ending in a broad black patch ; front white: 

 hind-head grey-brown ; greater wing-coverts partly tipt with white : 

 quills dusky : tail black towards the end, tipt with white; 



207. Ch. Morinellus. Breast dullorange, over which is a 

 white band, and above that a black one : across the 

 eyes a white stripe : legs blackish. 



Dottrel. Br. ZooL t. 7 3. Lewin t. 187. Donovan t. 42. 



Length near 10 inches : extent 18 : weight about 4 ounces. 

 Bill dusky, depressed in the middle : front dusky and grey : hind' 

 head blackish : cheeks and chin white : back and wings brownish- 

 olive, with pale ferruginous margins : middle of the belly blackish, 

 reddish-white beneath : quills dusky, the outer-web of the first 

 white: tail olive-brown, with a blackish band near the end, tipt 

 with white. 



40. CURSORIUS. Courser. 



208. C. Himantopus. Bill longer than the head; body 

 white, with glossy black back and wings : legs red. 



Charadrius Himantopus. Linn. Syst. Lath. Synops. 



Long-legged Courfer. Lewin t. 183. Donovan t. 55. Wale. t. 159. 



Length from the end of the bill to the end of the tail 13 inches, to 

 the end of the claws 18 : extent 2 feet 6 : weight 5 ounces. 



Bill black, 2 inches and a half long, tapering to a point, the up- 

 er mandible a little longer and bent over the lower; iris red i< 



