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WATTLED PLOVER* 



(Charadrius bilobus.) 



Ch. rtifo'griseus, superciliis abdomine fasciaque alarum albis^ 

 pileo remigibus Jasciaque rectricum nigrisj caruncula frontis 

 dependente. 



Red-grey Plover 3 with the eyebrows, abdomen, and stripe on 

 the wings, white 3 the pileus, quills, and band on the tail- 

 feathers, black 3 the front with a depending wattle. 



Charadrius bilobus. GmeL Syst, Nat. 1. 69I. — Lath, Ind, Orn, 

 2. 750. 28. 



Le Pluvier a lambeaux. Buf, Ois. 8. 102. 



Le Pluvier de la cote de Malabar. Buf. PL EnL 880. 



Wattled Plover. Lath. Gen. Syn. 6. 2l6. 23. 



Length nine inches and a half: beak yellow : 

 the forehead with a naked bare skin hanging 

 down in a pointed flap on each side of the jaw : 

 the crown of the head black : through the eye a 

 stripe of white : the neck and upper parts of the 

 body are yellowish grey, deepest on the back : the 

 under parts, from the breast, white : greater wing- 

 coverts with a band of white : quills black : tail 

 similar to the back, crossed with a bar of black at 

 the end, and the tips and outer webs of some of the 

 exterior feathers white. It inhabits the coast of 

 Malabar. 



V. XI. p. II, 



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