mon on thofe of the IJle of Rum, and the loftier Hebrides*, Alfo
on the Grampian, and all the heathy hills of the iflands and
highlands o f Scotland f . They make a lhrill whittling noife, and
may be indeed within gun-lhot by a Ikilful imitator of their
voice. The eggs are four in number, two inches and one eighth
in length, more pointed in fhape than thofe of the Lapwing; of a
pale cinereous olive, blotched with blackilh fpots. On the continent
they are met with in Sweden, Denmark, Lapland, Iceland,
and other northern parts : to the fouth as far as Aleppo J j and, if
the fpecies be not mittaken, in the ifland of Batavia§, as well
as in China : our laft voyagers met with them at Owhyhee|[, and
Tork IJlands, in the South Seas, but of a fmaller fize.
In America met with on the coaft of Labrador, and Hudfon's
Bay% ; from thence to New Tork, as low as Carolina-, migrating
from one to the other according to the feafons : and, if the following
be admitted as a variety, at the ifland of Saint Domingo,.
and in Cayenne**.
V ar.‘ a .
Description
Le Pluvier doré de Saint Domingue, Bti/. Orn. v. p. 48. pl. 6. fig. i._
' § * Z E tlle Lft : length nine inches and three quarters. Bill'
the fame ; the feathers round the bale of it and the throat
rufous white : the plumage on all the upper parts duflty, marked
* Br. Zbol. f Flor. Scot. i. p. 35. J Ruftel, p. 71. f Havoke/
Voy. iii. p. 78z. |f Fills Nar. ii. p. ^95«———Alfo at ^Tongataboo.— Cook's laft
Voy.\.p. 334.
Mr. Hutchins deferibed to us a bird which we fufpedt to be this, or very,
like it, called by the natives Wupu/kapethayiß.
•* One from the laft place, in the collection of Colonel Davies, meafures near
twelve inches in length.
with:
with yellowilh fpots : upper tail coverts brown, ftreaked tranf-
verfely with pale yellow : fore part of the neck and bread pale
grey, the feathers edged with pale yellow: belly, fides, and thighs,
white: prime quills brown, with white lhafts : tail brown, the feathers
fpotted' on the margins with yelloWifli white : legs grey.
Inhabits Saint Domingo.
Ruddy Plover, ArSl. Zool. N“ 404.
J g I L L ftrait, one inch long, and black: head, neck, bread,
fcapulars, wing coverts, and thofe of the tail, of a ruddy colour,
fpotted with black, and powdered with white: in the fcapulars
and wing coverts the black prevails: the outer webs-of the
four firft quills are brown ; the inner white, tipped with brown :
the upper part of the others white -, the lower brown: the two
middle tail feathers are brown;, edged with ruft; the others of a
dirty white : legs black: toes divided to their origin.
Inhabits Hudfon's Bay, where it is known by the name of Mifl-
chaychekjkaetiejhijhi
Charadrius himantopus, Lin. Syfi. i. p. 255. I i .—Hafclq. Iter. 253. N* 29,
— Scop. Ann. i. N° 148.
L’Echafle, Sr:/. Orn. v. p. 33. 1. pi. 3. fig. i .—Suf. Oif. viii. p, 114.
pl. 8\—PI. Enl. 878;
Himahtopus, Rati Syn. p. 106. 9. pv 193. pi. 1. fig. i.— Wtll. Orn.
p. 297. Pi. 54.
Long'leg:;, Rail Syn. p. 190. 7.— Si:an Jam. ii. p. 316. 6. pl. 267.
Long-legged Plover, Br. Zool. N° 209.— Flor. Scot. i. p. 35. pl. 4.— ArH.
Zool. N° 405.
Br. Mu/. Lev. Mu/.
n p H I.S is a Angular bird, on account of its great length of
legs: it meafures, from the end of the bill to that of the tail,
C c 2 thirteen
Place.
2.
RUDDY PL.
Descri ption.
Place.
1
+. LONG-
LEGGED PL.
Descriptiok.’