BLACK-HEADED PLOVER. 17 



crop, abdomen, thighs, and under tail coverts, clear 

 russet. Beak black; feet and legs green. 



The young, according to Degland, have the top of 

 the head, top and sides of the neck, russet grey; back 

 and scapulai-ies isabelle, with reflections of greenish 

 purple; forehead and throat dirty white; crop and top 

 cf abdomen of a vinous tint, shaded with violet; under 

 tail coverts clear fawn-colour; small wing coverts like 

 the back, the greater ones ash or whitish, having a 

 black spot and tipped with white; primaries deep black; 

 secondaries and tail feathers pu.re white; beak black; 

 iris brown; legs yellow. The above description is taken 

 from two female specimens, one killed in Egypt, and 

 the other in France. — (Ornith. Europ. vol. ii, p. 87.) 



I am indebted to the Rev. E. Cavendish Taylor for 

 the specimen from which my figure has been taken. 

 It was killed in Egypt, January, 1854. The egg is 

 from Badeker. 



It has also been figured by BafFon, pi. enl. 918. 



Since writing the foregoing notice, my attention has 

 been drawn by Mr. Alfred Newton, to an interesting 

 account of the capture of this bird in Sweden, by J. H. 

 Gurney, Esq., in the "Zoologist" for 1853, p. 4096. 

 This bird was an adult in summer plumage, and shot 

 by an Englishman near Stockholm. 



The following Plovers have been introduced into 

 the European Avifauna, but upon very slight grounds. 

 I give the synonymy and specific characters of each, 

 so that they may be easily recognised if found straying 

 into European territory: — ■ 



