334 BRITISH BIRDS* 
THE RING DOTTEREL. 
RING PLOVER, OR SEA LARK. 
( Charadrius Hiaticula , Lin . — Le petit Pluvier a collier , 
Buff.) 
The length is rather more than feven inches i 
The bill is of an orange colour, tipped with black ; 
the eyes are hazel ; a black line paffes from the 
bill, underneath each eye, to the cheeks, where it 
is pretty broad ; above this a line of white ex- 
tends acrofs the forehead to the eyes — this is 
bounded above by a black fillet acrofs the head ; 
a gorget of black encircles the neck, very broad 
on the fore part, but growing narrow behind — a- 
bove which, to the chin, is white ; the top of the 
head is of a light brown afh colour, as are alfo the 
back, fcapulars, and coverts ; the greater coverts 
are tipped with white ; the breaft and all the under 
