. Game, shore, and water birds of India . Kurrachee, 12-10-74. ^ 12. Legs black-grey. Bill black.—In winter: Forehead and chinwhite. Below white, with brown spots. Above brown, tipped black.—In summer: Lower surface deep black, edged barred black and white. Genns CHARADEIUS. Charadrlus = x^paSpws, in classical Greek, a bird dwelling in clefts or river-valleys,Xapddpai. The sight of it was held to be a cure for jaundice. No hind toe. Plumage brown, spotted yellow. Charadrius pluvialis. The European Golden Plover. Pluvlalis = rainy; from pluvla = rain. Charleton says
. Game, shore, and water birds of India . Kurrachee, 12-10-74. ^ 12. Legs black-grey. Bill black.—In winter: Forehead and chinwhite. Below white, with brown spots. Above brown, tipped black.—In summer: Lower surface deep black, edged barred black and white. Genns CHARADEIUS. Charadrlus = x^paSpws, in classical Greek, a bird dwelling in clefts or river-valleys,Xapddpai. The sight of it was held to be a cure for jaundice. No hind toe. Plumage brown, spotted yellow. Charadrius pluvialis. The European Golden Plover. Pluvlalis = rainy; from pluvla = rain. Charleton says because it frequents placesdamp from rain, and marshes. Littre derives the French pluvier from the fact of thebirds only reaching France in the rainy season. S 7£t Legs blue-grey. Bill black.—In winter: Above black, mottledgolden. Throat, lower breast, and abdomen pure white. Axillariespure white.—In summer: Above black, mottled golden and , breast, and belly black. (S. F. vii. 186.) Reigns in the W. Palaearctic, and
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