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CHARADRIAD^. 



are white, with a brown spot ; the rest are of the 

 colour of the back : the base of the beak is yellow, 

 its tip black : the legs are yellowish. 



Ch. ruficapillus. 



Ch. supra cinereus pennis riifo marginatis, infra alius; focie alba 

 nigra circuyndata ; occipite michdque in maribus rufesceyitibus, 

 in Jceminis cinereo-rufescentibus. 



Plover above cinereous^ with the feathers edged with red, beneath 

 white J the face white surrounded by black ; the occiput and 

 nape reddish in the males, ashy-red in the females. 



Charadrius ruficapillus. Temm. PI, Col. 47. 2. 



Inhabits New Holland ? Length five inches and 

 a half : the face is white, surrounded by a black 

 band, which extends from one eye to the other, and 

 from thence to the beak : the occiput and the nape 

 are of a bright red in the male, and ashy-red in the 

 female : the feathers of the back, the scapulars and 

 the wing-coverts are clear ash edged with reddish : 

 part of the secondaries are white, the rest with the 

 quills are black : the four middle tail-feathers are 

 ashy-brown ; the rest are pale white : a small spot at 

 the bend of the wing, and all the rest of the plumage, 

 are pure white. 



Ch. pecuarius. 



Ch. supra cinereo-fuscus, guld, collo antice^ abdomineque albis 

 pectore ventreque isabellino-Jlavis ; strigd duplici ajronte a 

 nuchayn supra alba, infra nigrd. 



Plover above ashy-brown, with the throat, neck anteriorly, and 

 abdomen white ; the breast and belly isabella-yellow ; a double 

 stripe from the forehead to the nape above white, beneath 

 black. 



Charadrius pecuarius. Temm. PI. Col. 183. 



