P ee Pee a I, 
CHARADRIUVUS BHIATICU LA, 
Sea Lark, or RINGED PLOVER. 
GRALL&. 
Bill roundifh, Tongue entire, fleflhy. Thighs naked. Toes 
divided, 
GENERIC CHARACTER. 
Bill ftrait, roundifh, obtufe. Noftrils linear, “Toes three in nume 
ber, all placed forwards. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 
Length feven inches. Bill orange, black at the tip. From the 
bafe of the upper mandible to the eyes, a black line: another from 
one eye to the other. Crown ef the head brown. Chin and throat 
white, paffing round the neck in a broad collar: beneath this, on the 
lower part of the neck, is a fecond line of black, encircling the neck 
behind, but becoming narrower as it pafles backward. Breaft and 
under parts white. Back and wing coverts pale brown. “T'wo mid- 
die feathers of the tail greyifh brown, growing almoft black towards 
the ends; the three next on each fide the fame, with white tips; the 
Jaft but one is white, with a brown band: the outer one white. 
Legs orange; claws black. 
Cuyaraperius Hraticura. Lin. Sy/t. 1. p.253. 1 
Faun. Suec. 187. 
Scop. dun. 1. N° 147, 
| Brun, 
