RINGED PLOVER. 
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the common Crow* they would spare the present species, and 
not shower destruction indiscriminately on their black friends 
and enemies ; at least on those who sometimes plunder them, 
and those who never molest or injure their property. 
RINGED PLOVER. — CH ARADRIUS HIATICULA. 
Plate XXXVII. Fig. 3. 
Lath. Syn. v. p. 201. 8. — Arct. Zool. ii. No. 401 Petit pluvier, a Collier, Buff. 
viii. p. 90. 6. PI. enl. 921 Pluvialis torquato minor, Briss. v. p. 63. 8. t. 5. f. 2. 
— Turt. Syst. p. 411. 2. — Peak's Museum , No. 4150. 
CH ARADRIUS MELOD US. — Ord. * 
Charadrius melodus, Bonap. Synop. p. 296. — Charadrius Okenii ? Wagl. Syst. Av. 
No. 24. 
It was not altogether consistent with my original plan, to 
introduce any of the Grallse, or Waders, until I had advanced 
nearer to a close with the Land Birds ; but as the scenery 
here seemed somewhat appropriate, I have taken the liberty 
of placing in it two birds, reduced to one-third of their natural 
size, both being varieties of their respective species, each of 
which will appear in their proper places, in some future part 
of this work, in full size, and in their complete plumage. 
* This little Plover has proved to be one of those very closely allied species 
so difficult of distinction, without a comparison with its congeners. The 
present figure is in the adult spring dress, and will be again represented by 
Bonaparte in that of autumn, in our third volume. The synonyms of Wilson 
are, of course, erroneous. Those also of Temminck, quoted in his Manual, 
and the observations on Wilson’s plate and description, must share a similar 
fate. The observations in the Nomenclature of Wilson, by the Prince of 
Musignano, will best explain how this species ought to stand. “ C. hiaticula 
was at first given by Wilson as a variety, of which he intended to describe the 
type in a future volume ; but when he did so in his seventh volume, he clearly 
and positively pointed out the difference in markings, habits, migration, voice, 
&c. between the two, which he then considered as distinct species, but without 
applying a new name ; and we have no doubt that, if he had made out the 
index himself, he would then have supplied the deficiency, as he had before 
done in respect to some land birds. Mr Ord supplied this void, by calling it 
C. melodus .” — Ed. 
