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mily try to decoy intruders by feigning lameness, but this 
species more conspicuously than most. 
Ring Dotterel. Ring Plover. Stone Plover. Sand Lark. 
Sandy Laverock. Sandy Loo. Dulwilly. 
Charadrius Hiaticula, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. 253. — Chara- 
drius Hiaticula, Lath. Ind. Ornith. ii. 743. — Charadrius Hia- 
ticula, Temm. Man. d’Ornith. ii. 539. — Charadrius Hiaticula, 
Ringed Sand-Plover, MacGillivray, Brit. Birds, iv. 
171. Charadrius Cantianus. Kentish Sand-Plover. 
Length nearly seven inches, bill seven-twelfths, more than 
half the length of the head, wings shorter than the tail. 
Adult with the upper parts light greyish-brown ; the forehead 
with two bands, a white and a black, the hind part of the 
head light brownish-red ; the loral space and a band behind 
the eye black ; the throat and a band crossing the hind neck 
white ; a large patch of black on each side of the lower part 
of the neck ; the bill black, the lower mandible flesh-colour- 
ed at the base ; the feet dusky, the claws black. Young 
without black on the head, the bands on both its sides and 
the patches on the neck brown, the feathers of the upper 
parts margined with whitish. 
Male, 6 t 9 ^, . ., 4^-, y^-, if, T S 2 -, . Pemale, 6 f 8 ^-. 
The Kentish Plover, so named by Latham, who first de- 
scribed it from specimens shot near Sandwich in Kent, has 
been found along the sandy coasts of several of the southern 
and eastern counties of England, but not farther north than 
Norfolk. It is very extensively distributed on the Continent, 
and is found in India and its islands, so that the name by 
which it is known is very inappropriate, although well enough 
chosen at the time of its discovery. Its habits are similar to 
those of the Ringed Sand-Plover. The eggs, four in number, 
are an inch and a fourth in length, eleven- twelfths in breadth, 
of a yellowish stone colour, spotted and streaked with black. 
Charadrius Cantianus, Lath. Ind. Ornith. Suppl. ii. 316. — 
Charadrius Cantianus, Temm. Man. d’Ornith. ii. 544. — Cha- 
radrius Cantianus, Kentish Sand-Piper, MacGillivray, Brit. 
Birds, iv. 
172. Charadrius minor. Little Ringed Sand-Plover. 
Length about six inches, bill five-twelfths and a half, 
wings shorter than the tail. Adult with the bill black, the 
feet flesh-coloured ; the upper parts light brownish-grey ; the 
