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V a r . A.
Description
F emale.
Place.
Charadrius fpinofus, Lin. Syfl. 5. p. 256. 12. B.
Le Pluyisr hupe de Peife, Brif Ont. v. p. 84. 14.— Buf. Of. vlii. p. gj},
Black-breafted Indian Plover, Ed--w. pi, 47. (male):.
Spur-winged Plover, Ed--w. pi. 280. (female).
• J ^ E N G T H eleven inches and a half: breadth twenty-three
inches: weight four ounces. Bill a little more than one
inch, and black: top of the head gloffy black: hind head a little
crefted : cheeks, hind head, and fides of the neck, white : upper
part of the neck, back, fcapulars, rump, and upper tail coverts,
chefnut brown : throat and fore part of the neck black : bread:
and upper part of the belly the fame j the firft gloffed with
violet: the lower part of the belly and vent white: wing coverts
like the back; but thofe fartheft from the body, and fecondaries,
brownilh chefnut, tipped with white : greater quills black : the
tail four inches long; even at the end; white for two-thirds of
the length; the red: black: legs deep brown.
The other (fuppofed to be the female) is the fize of a Lapwing.
Bill and creft the fame: it differs chiefly in having the
whole of the neck white : the black on the throat only reaching
for an inch down: bread: and upper part of the belly black :
outer tail feathers tipped with white. Both of them have a fpur
on the bend of the wing.
Thefe inhabit Ruffia-, and are very frequent near Aleppo, about
the river Coic *.
■ * BuJJel, p. 72. p], 11.—In the plate the bird feems to have a back toe, or at
leaft a fpur; though the text mentions only three toes In all. The having a
minute fpur is not uncommon in the Plover genus ; the fpecimen in the Britijh
Mufeum is furniflied with a fmall one.
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Le Pluvier armé de Cayenne, Buf. Oif. viii. p. 102.—PI. Enl. 833.
f E N 'G TH about nine inches. Bill one inch ; colour dulky :
the back part of the head, and nape of the neck, are white,
mixed with grey : the fore part and fides black, pafling back to
the nape, and occupying all the hind part of the neck ; and then
comes forward on the fore part, above the bread: : between this
and the"chin it is white: the middle of the back and wings is
rufous grey : near the bend of the wing a Iharp bent fpur : fcapulars
and quills black : the under parts, from the breaft, white.
the bafe half of the tail is white, the reft black : legs yellowilb.
This inhabits Cayenne.
Le Pluvier coiffe, Buf. Oif. viii. p. 100.
—• da Senegal, Bl. Enl. 834.
T E N G T H ten inches and a half. Bill yellow, red towards
^ the end, and black at the tip : the forehead covered with a
carunculated yellow membrane, pafling round the eyes : the head,
and a little way on the neck, black: the hind head furnilhed with
a few Ihort pointed feathers, hanging like'a fmall creft; under
this the hind head is white : the upper parts of the body are rufous
grey: all the under parts white, with a few dulky dalhes
down the fore part of the neck: the quills and end of the tail
black ; the laft Ihort: legs red.
This is found at Senegal.
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J)escription.
Place.
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HOODED PL.
Description..
Place.
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