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i e pétit Pluvier dés Indes, Sri/. Or*. 8vS. il. p. ij-f.. N' 16.
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Description jS ^ Ë A R L Y the fize o f a Lark: length fix inches. Bill nine
lines long, and blackilh: the upper part o f the body is
brown; the under, dulky white: on the bread two tranfverfe
brown bands: the prime quills brown ; the lècondaries dufky:
tail feathers white at the bafe; the red of their length brown:
wings and tail of equal length whenclofed: legs dulky black.
Placs. Inhabits the Eajt Indies.
« W I T H A C U R V E D B I L L .
„ Cream-coloured Plover, Gea.Sjn. v.. p.217. N° 25.
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LOURED PL. A Bird o f this curious and Angular fpecifes was ihot near St. AL
P.I..CXVJ, ban’s, in Eaft Kent, the feat of William Hammond, Efq; who
prefented it to me with the following account. He fird met with
it running upon fame light land 5 and fo little fearful was it, that,
after having fent for a gun, one was brought tb him, Which did
not readily go off, having been charged fome time, and in confe-
quence miffed his aim. The report frightened the bird away;
but, after making a turn or two, it again fettled within a hundred
yards o f him, when he Was prepared with a lecond Ihof, Which dispatched
it. It was obferved to fu'h with incredible fwiftnefs, and,
at intervals, to pick up fotnfethingfrom the ground; and was fo
bold, .as to render it difficult to make it rife from the ground,
in order to take a more fecure aim on the wing. The note was'
not like any kind of Plover’s, nor indeed to be compared with
that of any known bird.
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