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NEW ZEALAND PLOVER. 

 (Charadrius Novse-Zealandiae.) 



Ch. cinereo-viridis. Jade et torque colli nigris^ vittd anmdari 



capitis Jascid alarum corporeque suhtus albis. 

 Grey-green Plover^ with the face and ring- on the neck black ^ 



an annular stripe on the head, fascia on the wings, and body 



beneath, white. 

 Charadrius Novae Zealandise. Lath. Ind. Orn. 2. 745. 12. 

 Charadrius Novae Seelandise. Gmel. Syst. Nat. 1.6S4. 

 New Zealand Plover. Lath. Gen. Si/n. 5. 206. 10. pL 83. 



Described and figured by Latham. *' A trifle 

 bigger than the Ringed Plover : length eight 

 inches : beak one inch long, red, with a black tip : 

 irides blue-grey : eyelids red : the fore-part of the 

 neck, taking in the eye, chin, and throat, black, 

 passing backwards in a collar at the hind head; 

 all the back part of the head behind the eye greenish 

 ash-colour ; these two colours divided by white : 

 the plumage on the upper parts of the body the 

 same colour as the back of the head : quills and 

 tail dusky : the last order of coverts white for some 

 part of their length, forming a bar on the wing : 

 the under parts of the body white : legs red. In- 

 habits Queen Charlotte's Sound : known there by 

 the name of Doodooroa-ctttoo.' 



