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Th BLACK*BREASTED INDIANPLOVER. 
Fi Bird is fomething bigger than the Lapweng, it agrees pretty near in Size with 
our Engh{h Grey and Green Plovers, being fhap’d like them, except in its Legs, 
which are a pretty deal longer ; it is here drawn of its natural Bignefs; its Bill is of 
a middling Length, of a pretty equal Thicknefs, Black of Colour, ending in a point, 
the Middle of the Bill is not quite fo thick as it is at its Bafis and near the point; it 
hath on each Side an oblong noftril; the crown of the Head is black with a green 
Glofs, thefe black feathers reach an Inch beyond the Head behind, and form a crefts 
the Cheeks, hinder Part of the Head, and two broad Lines down on each Side the 
Neck are White; between the black Crown and the White in the Sides of the Head, 
are placed the eyes; the lower part of the Neck behind, the whole Back and Covert- : 
feathers of the Wings, areof a brown Colour; the Tips of the Rows of Coverts next 
above the Quills are White, the greater Quills Black, the leffer next the Back, 
Brown; the Ridge of the Wing, from the Bend downward, hath black and white 
Feathers intermixed ; from the Bill downward, on the throat, and beginning of th’ 
Breaft, is drawn a black Mark, which falls into the black on the Breaft ; the Breatt 
and part of the Belly are Black, having a fine purple Glofs on the Breaft ; the 
Thighs, lower Belly, and Covert feathers under the Tail are white; the Feather, 
Of the Tail are of equal Length, White at their Bottoms, and Black acrofs the 
Pnd, for the breadth of an Inch and a half; the Legs are longer than Common 1 
this kind of Birds; it hath only three Toes of a moderate Length all ftanding for- 
ward; the Legs are bare of Feathers a little way above the knees : both Legs, Feet 
and Claws, are of a dirty dark Brown, in¢lining to Black. 
I drew this from a Bird lent me by Mr. Peter Colnfon, which was fent in Spirits 
with other Birds from Gamrow in Perfia, I wrote it from Bengal on the Plate, 
through a miftake. 
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