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white ftreak, and through the eye a black one, palling to-the hind
head, the white entering a little way into the black at the back
part: behind the neck, the back, wings, and tail, brown : upper
part, of the belly.dufky : the reft o f the parts beneath, the rump,
upper tail coverts, and tip of the tail, white : quills black ; legs
yellowilh white.
From the coaft of Coromandel. The two laft differ much from
the Plovers in the Ihape of the bill 3 but have fo great an affinity
to them on account of the toes, which are only three in number,
and all placed forward, that they cannot with propriety be placed
in any other genus.
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