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The Spotted-Plover. 
r | ^ HIS Bird in Size, Make, and Proportion of Parts agrees with our Green 
J| Plover, having like that only three Toes on a Foot, and all Handing forward. 
Its Bill is an Inch long, the Wing when clofed feven Inches and a half; the 
Leg from the Knee to the Bottom of the Heel near two Inches ; the middle Toe and 
Claw near an Inch long. 
The Bill is Black, and almoft ftraight, bending a very little downward toward 
the Point. The upper Mandible has Channels on its Sides, in which the Noftrils 
are placed; the Forehead is White almoft to the Bill, and only parted from it by a 
Line of black Feathers; from the white on the Forehead proceed white Lines, which 
pafs above each Eye, and then tend downward on each Side of the Neck; then turn¬ 
ing forward, join, and form a white Collar, which parts the Neck and Breaft. The 
under Side of the Head and Throat, which is encompafted by the white Line, is 
Black; the Top of the Head, Hinder-Side of the Neck, the Back, Rump, and 
Covert-Feathers of the Wings are of a dark Brown or blackifh Colour, very beauti¬ 
fully fpotted with a brightifh Yellow inclining to Orange. If a Angle Feather be ob- 
ferved, it is blackifh with yellow Spots indented all round the Border of its 
Web; the greater Quills of the Wings are of a dufky Black, the Edges of their 
Webs lighter; the Quills next the Back, and the Tail-Feathers are black and brown 
tranfverfly, fucceeding each other in Bars; the Ridge of the Wing that falls on the 
Breaft has a mixture of white Feathers with the Dufky ; the Infides of the Wings are 
of a lightifh-brown Afh-Colour: The whole under Side, from the Collar of White to 
the Coverts under the Tail, is of a deep Black, except a few white Spots on the Co¬ 
vert-Feathers under the Tail. The Legs are bare of Feathers a little above the 
Knees; the outer Toe on each Foot is joined to the middle one as far as the firft 
Joint. It hath only three Toes all Handing forward; the Legs and Feet are Black;... 
the Toes have a fort of Edges on their Sides, which make them broad at their. 
Bottoms. 
Th is Bird was brought from Hudfon’y-Bay by Mr. IJham. I fuppofe when it is 
living it has a bright {Lining Eye, becaufe I And by my Friend Mr. Ifhani s Account, 
that the Englifh fettled in Hudfon's-Bay call it the Hawk's-Eye. It is undoubtedly 
a Species of Plover , altogether different and diftindt from any thing which has been- 
hitherto defcribed, and I believe may juftly be received as a Non-defcripto 
