22.
WREATHED
PL.
Description.
Place.
Le Pluvier couronne, Buf Oif. viii. p. 101.'
Pluvier du Cap de Bonne Efperance, PI. Enl, 800«
^JpHIS is twelve inches in length. The bill is reddilh, towards
the point dufky : the head even with the eye, and chin, are
black : round the crown runs a lift of white, encircling the head
like a wreath : the hind part of the neck, and upper part of the
body, are brown, with a glofs of greenilh purple in fome lights;
this is likewile feen on the breaft, which is marked with a few
fpots of black : the neck, as far as the breaft, is grey : the belly
white; as are the greater coverts: the tail white, with a broad
band of black near the end: quills black : legs ruft-colour.
This comes from the Cape of Good Hope.
2*. Le Pluvier a lambeaux, Buf, Oif. viii. p. 102.
WATTLED PL. Pluvier de la Cote de Malabar, PI. Enl. 880.
Description. C j I Z E of the Golden Plover: length nine inches and a half.
The bill is yellow: on the forehead a naked bare fkin, hanging
down in a pointed flap on each fide of the jaw : crown of the
head black : through the eye a white ftreak: the neck and upper
parts of the body yellowilh grey, deepeft on the back : the under
parts, from the breaft, white: acrofs the greater wing coverts a
band of white: quills black: the tail is like the back, crofied
with a black bar at the end 5 and the tips and outfides of fome
of the outer feathers white : legs pale yellow.
This is met with Place. on the coaft of Malabar.
Le Pluvian, Buf. Oif. viii. p. 104.— PI. Enl. 918.
J ^ E N G T H feven inches. Bill black; one inch long: the upper
part of the head, taking in the eyes, is black: the forehead
yellowilh, palling over each eye in a broad ftreak : the hind part
of the neck and back are black : the wings, rump, and tail,
greyilh alh-colour: the quills black, mottled with white on the
outer part of the wing: all the tail feathers except the two middle
ones marked with black near the ends; the very tips white :
the under parts, from the chin, pale rufous, deepeft on the breaft,
where it is mottled with tranfverfe dulky markings; and towards
the vent nearly white: legs cinereous grey: claws black.
Native place not mentioned.
Le Courvite, Buf. Oif, viii. p. 128.— PL Enl. 795. N
T E N G T H ten inches. Bill three quarters of an inch; (lender,
bent at the tip, not unlike that of the Pratincole: plumage
in general cream-colour, paleft beneath : behind the eyes a patch
of black ; through them a pale ftreak, palling to the hind head,
and dividing the black : quills black: tail the fame as the upper
parts, marked with black near the tip : legs yellowilh white.
The above was killed in France: it was obferved to run with
great fwiftnefs.
Le Courvite de la Coromandel, PI. Enl. 892.
g l Z E of the other. Top of the head, and fore parts as far as
the breaft, reddilh chefnut: chin whitilh: behind the eye a
V ol. III. F f white
24.
BLACK-HEAD-
' ED PL.
Description.
2Ç.
CREAM-COLOURED
PL.
Description.
Place.
26.
COROMANDEL
PL.
Description.