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NEW-ZEALAND
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Description.
Pt. LXXXIII.
Place.
I I .
GREGARIOUS
PL.
Description.
that feed there, which, by fertilifing the fpot, perhaps may contribute
to increafe the produce of infefts, which are its food.
A T R I F L E bigger than the Ringed Plover: length eight
inches. Bill one inch long, red, with a black tip : irides
blue grey : eye-lids red : the fore part -of the head, taking in the
eye, chin, and throat, black, palling backwards in a collar at the
hind head; all therback part of the head, behind the eye, green-
ilh alh-colour ; theft two colours divided by white : the plumage
on the upper parts of the body the fame colour as the back
of the head: quills and tail dulky : the laft order of coverts
white for fome part of their length, forming a bar bn the wing:
the under parts of the body white : legs red.
Inhabits Queen Charlotte's Sound. Known there by the name
of Doodooroa-dttoo.
In the colledtion of Sir Jofeph Banks.
Charadrius Gregarius, Pall. Trav. i. p. 456.
g l Z E of a Lapwing. Bill in lhape and fize the fame as in
that bird : crown of the head brown, mottled with white :
forehead white, palling in a ftreak over each eye to the hind
head : through the eyes a black ftreak : body alh-colour, fome-
what approaching to that of a Turtle: the chin whitilh : at the
lower part of the breaft a large crefcent of black j behind it a
dirty rufous one ; from thence to the vent white: tail even at
the end, white, crofted with a black band, which is not confpi-
Place.
cuous in the fide feathers: legs furnilhed with an imperfedt
back toe.
This frequents the fields about the Volga, Jaick, and Samara,
in flocks, and is pretty plentiful; but not feen farther north than
54 degrees. Is called by fome the Hen o f the Steppes *.
Charadrius Afiaticus, Pall. Trav. ii. p. 715.
L I T T L E bigger than the Ringed Plover. Bill as in that
bird : crown of the head, the back, and wings, greyilh alh-
coloured brown : forehead, eye-brows, fides of the head, and
chin, white: from thence to the middle of the neck ferruginous,
bounded by a tranfverfe band of brown: the reft of the under
parts white : tail brown, the feathers whitilh on the edges, and
tipped with black : legs red.
Inhabits the fait lakes of the fouthern defarts of Tartary; and
is a rare and folitary bird.
Charadrius Mongolus, Pall. Tr. iii. p* 7°°* 29*
C I Z E of the Dotterel. Forehead white; crown black: from
the bill arifes a ftreak of black, which grows wider, and encircles
the throat, which is white; beyond this the fore part of
the neck is ferruginous: breaft the fame, but paler: belly white :
back cinereous brown.
Inhabits the fait lakes on the confines of the Mongolian coun-
trv, in tolerable plenty. Is a folitary fpecies.
» Ruffla, vol. iv. p. 282— Dec. Ruff. ii. p. 17.
12. ASIATIC PL.
Description.
Place.
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MONGOLIAN
PL.
Description.
Place.