Place.
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ALWARQRIM
PI,.
D escription.
Female.
Plage and
Manners.
black : forehead and under parts cinereous white: leffer and
middle wing coverts black, fringed with alh-colonr j the greater
cinereous, with whitilh edges : quills and tail dulkjjj: kgs black.
Inhabits Newfoundland, and is gregarious.
Charadrius aprjqarius, Li». SjJt. i. p. *$4* 6.— Fa««. Suec. N" 189__
Sr««. N° 186— Muller, N° z i z .— Fauu. Groenl. N° on.— Gccrri
Rti/i, p. \7z.
I,e Pluvier dare 4« laBayerJe Hudftn, Sri/. Or», v. p. 31, 4,
Le Pluvier dore a gorge noire, Suf. Oif. viii. p. 85.
Spotted Plover, Ed™, pi. 140.— Bancr. Guta», p. 173.
Alwargrim Plover, Ar3 . Zml. N° 398.
Lev» Muf.
g I Z E of the Golden Plover. Bill one inch long, and black:
eyes large: hides brown: eyelids black : the plumage on all
the upper parts is black, Ipotted with orange : at the bafe of the
upper mandible the feathers are black : the forehead-between the
eyes white, which paffes. over each eye in. a line, down the fides of
the neck, to the break, uniting to form a band of the fame acrofs
the latter : all the fore parts of the neck, break, and under parts,
are likewife black, except where the white band crakes : the vent-
fpotted with white: fecondaries, quills, and tail, barred brown
and black : legs black.
The male differs in having the temples black; but in the female
they are dulky or brown.
This inhabits the northern parts of Europe, Sweden, Denmark,
the Ijle ofOeland*i Iceland, and Greenland. In the lak it is found,
»Known there by the name of Alwargrim, and is laid to frequent the barren
heaths.— Faun. Suec.
p l o v e r .
though not in plenty, in all the fouthern lakes, feeding on mol-
lujca, and the buds of black-berried heath : it arrives in Ipring j
and after breeding retires fouthward. It is alfo found in all the
ardtic parts of Ruffia and Sibiria. In America, at Hudfon's Bay, it
is well known by the name of Hawk’s Eye. Comes to New York
in May; breeds there, departing in colledled Hocks the end of
OAober. It is probably met with alfo in Guiana, where Bancroft
fays it is feen in vak flocks near the mouths of rivers. The flefli.
is thought to be delicious.
Charadrius vociferus, Lin. Sy/l. j. p. 253. 3.
lie Pluvier a.collier de Virginie, Brif Orn. v. p. 68. 9
Kildir, Buf. Oif. viii. p. 96.-
Chattering Plover, or Kill-deer, Catejb. Car. i. pi. fu .
Noify Plover, Ar£i. Z00L N® 400..
Br. Muf Lev. Muf.
g IZ E of a Snipe : length nine inches and three quarters. Bill Description.
above an inch long, and black: eyelids red : eyes black : the
forehead is white: between the eyes, acrofs the head, a bar of
black, pafling on each fide to the hind head: the chin and fore
part of the neck is white; at the lower part of the neck the white
encircles it like a ring, and is accompanied by a bar of black all
round: on the break is another black bar; andj except thefe, all
the under parts are white: the hind part of the head, neck, and
upper part of the body and wings, are dulky brown : tump ruky
orange ; the feathers very long : fome of the feathers which fall
over the greater quills fringed with white; the lak black; a
few. of the outer ones have white lhafts : tail the colour of the
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