HINGED PLOVER* 



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Charadrius Hiaticula. Linn, Syst, Nat. 1. 253. 1. — Linn. Fauno 

 Suec. 187- — Gmel. Syst. Nat. 1. 683. — Raii. Syn, 112. a.. 6. — 

 Lath. Ind. Orn. 2. 743. 8. 



Charadrius torquatus. Leach. Cat. Brit. Mus. p. 28, 



Pluvialis torquata minor. Briss. Orn. 5. 63. 8. pi- 5.,/ 2. 



Le Pluvier a collier. Buf. Ois. 8. 90. — Buff. PI. Enl. 92a 



Grand Pluvier ^ collier. Temm. Man. d'Orni. 328. 



Sea Lark. Jib. Birds. 1. pi. 80. — Lou?. Faun. Oread, p. 89. 



Ringed Plover. Penn. Brit. Zool. 2. 211. — Penn, Arct. Zool.2. 

 401. — Lath. Gen. Syn. 5. 201. 8. — Letvin. Brit. Birds. 5. pi. 

 184. — Wale. Syn. 2. pi. I61. — Don. Brit, Birds, !, pi, 18. — 

 Pult, Cat. Dors. 16. — Betv, Brit. Birds. 1.334. — Mont. Orn, 

 Diet. Of. — Mont. Orn. Diet. Supp, — Wills, Amer. Orn. 5. 30. 

 pi, xxxvii. J". 3. 



Length seven inches : the forehead, space be- 

 tween the eye and beak, a broad coronal stripe 

 passing over the eyes to the occiput, and a broad 

 gorget on the breast, whose extremities join on the 

 na,pe, are all deep black : a stripe through the 

 middle of the forehead, the throat, collar round 

 the neck, and all the under parts of the body, are 

 w^hite : the occiput and whole of the upper parts 

 are grey-brown : the two middle tail-feathers 

 greyish brown, growing black almost towards the 

 tips ; the three next on each side the same, with 

 the tips white ; the last but one is white, wdth a 

 brown band : the outer one is white, with a small 

 spot only,: the Aafts of the quills towards their 

 tips, and a spot on their inner webs, pure white : 

 beak orange, with the tip black : legs orange : 

 claws black. The female with the coronal band 

 narrower, and the gorget on the breast dusky. 

 The young has the whole of the parts that are 

 cdestined to become black in the adult of a dusky 



