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feathers are dulky brown; the two next on each' fide dirty white,
tipped with brown ; and the two exterior ones white* : lhape of
the tail much rounded : legs black.
Inhabits Egypt, on the canal of the Nile. Feeds on infedls
and fmall Frogs. Found alfo in the diocefe of Drontheim, and
Norway, and common about the fait lakes between the rivers
Argun and Onon, but not obferved elfewhere in the Ruffian dominions.
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V ar. A.
Charadrius iEgyptius, Lin. SjJi. i. p. .254. 4.—"Hajfelq. Iter. p. 256. 31.
Description. C I Z E of a Phrujh. Irides black : from the forehead a line of
white paffes over the eye to the hind head : the crown, fides
of the head, and middle of the back,- black : on the breaft a band
of black, pafiing backwards, and ending in a point on the back :
breaft, fides of the belly, thighs, and vent, yellowifh white :
throat and middle of the belly white: fides of the back and
fhoulders hoary : quills white, crofted with a band of black in
the middle and tip : tail even at the end; colour of the feathers
hoary ■, near the ends a bar of black, the tips white: legs blye:
claws black.
Place. Inhabits the funny plains of Egypt, and feeds on infefts.
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V ar. B.
Description.
Lev. Muf.
T E N G T H eleven inches and a half. Bill half black, half
orange : crown black : over the eyes a white ftreak, pafiing
* The eight middle feathers are brown, blackilh near the ends, and white at the
tips ; the two Outer ones white I on the outer web of the exterior feather a brown
fpot, and on the inner web of the lad but one a few duflty fpot:. BriJJon.
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on each fide backwards to the hind head as a wreath ; this is again
bounded by black : all the upper parts pale brown : chin white :
fore part of the neck dulky white : on the breaft a bar of black:
belly and vent white: quills dulky black ; fome of the inner
ones have the margins white : tail white, eroded with a bar of
black, an inch broad, near the end j the tip white : legs long
and red.
In thz Leverian Mufeum it is called the red-eyed Plover; one
of thefe is alfo in the colleftion of Sir Jofeph Banks, brought
from the Cape of Good Hope. It is the opinion of fome, that the
five lalt deferibed are mere varieties * j which we cannot abfolutely
deny; but, till the circumftance can be more fully afeertained, we
have fuffered them to Hand as above. The following may, we
think, fafely be admitted as a further variety of the Alexandrine
Ipecies.
Petit Pluvie a collier de L ’ifle de Lu^on, Son. Voy. p. 84. t. 46.
Cj I Z E of the Alexandrine Plover. Bill black : irides yellow :
on the forehead is a fpot of white : from thence beyond the
eye, and the fides, black ; this laft is bounded by a brown line,
pafiing from behind one eye to the other acrofs the head : the
hind head and nape, back, and wings, brown, the colour o f umber
: tail black, tipped with white : the throat, fore part of the
neck, and belly, white; which is continued on each fide below
the nape, fo as nearly to furround the neck : below this is a
collar of black, pafiing quite round the neck : legs blackilh.
This bird is found in the marlhy places of the ifle of Lu-
fonia, efpecially fuch as are enriched by the dung of cattle
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Var. C.
Description.
Placb and
Manners.
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