48£ 



B. Alm calcaratcE. 

 B. Wings armed with a spur. 



SENEGAL PLOVER. 

 (Charadrius Senegalensis.) 



Ch. remigibus pectore pedibusque atris, occipite cristato, rectri- 



cibus dimidiato albis, aiulis spinosis. 

 Plover with the quills, breast, and feet, dusky j the hind head 



crested 3 the tail-feathers half white ; the wings with a spur. 

 Charadrius spinosus. Lin7i. Syst. Nat. 1. 256. 12. — Gmel.Syst. 



Nat, 1. 6gO. — Lath. Ind. Orn, 2. 748. 24. 

 Pluvianus Senegalensis armata. Briss. Orn. 5. 86. 15. pi. 7-/. 2. 

 Le Pluvier a aigrette. Biiff. Ois, 8. 99. 

 Spur-winged Plover. Lath. Gen. Syn, 5. 213. 20. 



Latham gives the following description of this 

 curious bird : " Size of the Golden Plover : length 

 twelve inches : beak above an inch long, and black : 

 irides red : the crown of the head and throat are 

 black, passing a little way down the neck before : 

 the hind head a little crested : the back part of 

 the neck, and upper part of the body, and scapulars, 

 are grey: sides of the head, and all the under 

 part, from throat to vent, yellowish white, except 

 N a crescent of black on the breast, the convex part 

 uppermost: thiftfesser wing-coverts are black ; the 

 middle ones as the back ; the greater yellowish 

 white ; but some of the outer ones, and the nine 

 outer greater quills, are black ; the ten next half 

 white, half black ; the two following yellowish 



