LONG-LEGGED PLOVER. 



Pennant, Zool. Caledon. pref, to Light 

 Flor. Scot, p. 35. pi. 4. 



White Hiji. Selb. p. 259. pi. 4. 



The Charadrius Hirnantopus, fo remarkable for 

 the extraordinary length of its legs, which, except 

 thofe of the Flamingo, are perhaps longer in pro- 

 portion than in any other bird yet difcovered, is ex- 

 tremely rare in England; it is however fometimes 

 obferved in watery places, and is eafily recognifed 

 from any other of the plover kind by the particular 

 character above mentioned. I now introduce it into 

 the prefent work in order that a particular of fom^ 

 importance in its fpecihc charadler, and which hi- 

 therto appears to have been either miftaken or over- 

 looked by moft authors, may be clearly underftood, 

 and an important error in the Syftema Nature of 

 Linnseus be placed in its proper light. This I am 

 enabled to do in the completeft manner by the ob- 

 fervations of the Rev. Mr. Hugh Davies, of Aber 

 in North Wales, a gentleman whofe merits as an 

 pbfervant naturalift, and particularly with refped: to 

 the birds of our own ifland, are fo often and fo 

 juftly commemorated by Mr. Pennant in his Britilh 

 Zoology. 



Mr. Davis's letter to me on the prefent occafion 

 is as follows : 



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