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KENTISH PLOVER. 



This bird inhabits the sea shore near the mouths 

 of large rivers : it is very abundant in Germany 

 and towards the south of Europe, and occasionally 

 migrates into Holland : it feeds on aquatic insects 

 and small worms : it lays from three to five oblong 

 eggs, of a whitish hue, mottled with large black 

 spots and indistinct ones of grey-brown : they are 

 deposited on the sandy shores. 



KENTISH PLOVER. 

 (Charadrius Cantianus.) 



Ch. Juscus fronte collari ahdoinineque alhis, vittd per oculos 



lateralibusque pectoris nigris. 

 Brown Plover, with the forehead, collar, and abdomen, white ; 



a stripe through the eyes, and the sides of the breast, black. 

 Charadrius Cantianus. Lath. Ind. Orn. Sup. Ixvi. i. 

 Pluviera collier interrompu. Temm. Man. d'Orni, 331. 

 Kentish Plover. Lew. Brit. Birds, pi. 185. Lath. Syn. Sup, 



II. 316. S.—Mont. Orn. Diet. Sup. 

 Kinged Plover, variety. Mont. Orn, Diet. Sup. 



i^BOUT six inches and a half in length: the 

 forehead, the eyebrows, which are broad, a band 

 on the nape, and the whole of the under parts, are 

 pure white : a space between the eye and the beak, 

 and large angular patch on the head, and a broad 

 spot on each side of the breast, are deep black : 

 behind each eye is a large spot of grey-black : the 



