BRITISH BIRDS* 
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THE GRAY PLOVER* 
(' Tringa Squatarola } Lin . — Le vanneau Pluvier, Buff.) 
The length of this bird is about twelve inches 1 
Its bill is black ; the head, back, and wing coverts 
are of a dully brown, edged with greenilh alh co- 
lour, and fome with white ; the cheeks and throat 
are white, marked with oblong dulky fpots ; the 
belly, thighs, and rump are white ; the fides are 
marked with a few dulky fpots ; the outer webs of 
the quills are black, the lower parts of the inner 
webs of the four firft are white ; the tail is marked 
with alternate bars of black and white ; the legs 
are of a dull green $ its hind toe is fmall. — In the 
Planches Enluminees this bird is reprefented with 
eyes of an orange colour ; there is lilcewife a duL 
ky line extending from the bill underneath each 
eye, and a white one above it. 
We have placed this bird with the Plovers, as 
agreeing with them in every other refpedl but that 
of having a hind toe ; but that is fo fmall as not to 
render it necelfary to exclude it from a place in 
the Plover family, to which it evidently belongs. 
The Gray Plover is not very common in Britain ; 
it appears fometimes in fmall flocks on the fea- 
coalls : It is fomewhat larger than the Golden 
Plover. Its flelli is faid to be very delicate* 
