THE SAND-PLOVERS. 
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Adult Female.— Similar to the male, but with less rufous on 
the head, this being represented by a tinge over the eye and 
round the nape, the black band on the fore part of the crown 
absent, the black patch on each side of the chest represented 
by a brown patch with a rufous tinge. Total length, 6 5 inches , 
culmen, 07 ; wing, 4-3; tail, I'p ; tarsus, I'l. 
Adult in Winter Flumage.-Differs from the summer plumap 
in the entire absence of bright rufous on the head, and the 
black markings on the face and sides of the breast are also 
not developed. The head is like the back ; the forehead 
and eyebrow are white, the lores dusky, and there is abva>'^ 
more or less distinct white collar united to the two sides of the 
Young Birds in First Winter Plumage.— Only differ from the 
adults in having the whole upper surface distinctly marked 
with pale edges to the feathers. 
Characters.— The Kentish Sand-Plover may be recognised at 
all aires by its black legs and feet. The crown of the head 
in the adult birds is rufous as well as the nape ; round the 
hind-neck is a white collar. On the sides of the breast is a 
black patch, which does not meet across the fore-neck to form 
a collar. In the young birds the black legs and white collar on 
the hind-neck are the best characteristics. 
Range in Great Britain.— The present species is a migrant to 
England, especially to the south-eastern counties, arriving 111 
April, and leaving at the end of September. It has also been 
obtained on the cast coast in October ; but, as Mr. toward 
Saunders points out, such birds are 
Continent. It it chiefly known as an inhabitant of the shingly 
beaches of Kent and Sussex, but is much less plentiful now than 
formerly. It has been met with, on rare occasions, in Devon- 
shire and Cornwall, and is a very scarce visitor to Ireland, it 
is plentiful, however, on some of the Channel Islands. 
Range outside the British Islands.— The Kentish Sand-Plover is 
spread over the greater part of the Old World, but does not 
range very far north, being rare in the Baltic, but more com- 
mon in Denmark and the Netherlands; it has occurred once 
in Norway, but is found regularly in South Sweden. In Prance, 
