. A history of the birds of Europe, not observed in the British Isles . .) Pluvier armi commun, Of the French. Gemeiner Spornkiebiet%, Of the Germans. Specific Characters.—Forehead and crown black, the feathers of theocciput elongated into a crest; throat, breast and upper portion of theabdomen, distal half of tail and primaries black; sides of face and neck,as also the nape, lower part of abdomen, and basal half of tail pure plumage and wing coverts hair brown, inclining to ashy grey, asharp strong spur on each carpal joint. Length eleven inches; wingfrom carpal joint eight inche
. A history of the birds of Europe, not observed in the British Isles . .) Pluvier armi commun, Of the French. Gemeiner Spornkiebiet%, Of the Germans. Specific Characters.—Forehead and crown black, the feathers of theocciput elongated into a crest; throat, breast and upper portion of theabdomen, distal half of tail and primaries black; sides of face and neck,as also the nape, lower part of abdomen, and basal half of tail pure plumage and wing coverts hair brown, inclining to ashy grey, asharp strong spur on each carpal joint. Length eleven inches; wingfrom carpal joint eight inches; tarsus two inches and a half; bill oneinch and one fifth; tail three inches and a half. The European localities of the SjDur-winged Plover are Turkey,Greece, Russia, and occasionally Sicily and Malta. M. Nordmannrecords having sliot a male out of a_ flock of eight or ten, nearOdessa, in 1837, in company with a large flock of the SociablePlover, Chcetusia gregaria. In Africa it has a wide range. It isvery common in Senegal, whence it derives tlie name given to it. SPUB-WINGED PLOVEB. 169 by Brisson. Mr. Taylor (Ibis, vol. i, p. 58,) says it is about thecommonest bird in Egypt, and very tame. I do not find it includedin Captain Locbes Catalogue of the Avifauna of Algeria. In Asiawe have it recorded by Canon Tristram, in his Notes on BirdsObserved in Southern Palestine, (Ibis, vol. i, p. 36,) two sj)ecimenshaving been seen on the banks of the Jordan. Temminck suggests the probability of the Spur-winged Ploverbreeding in the south of Russia, but I am not aware of any nestshaving been found there. The egg which I have figured was taken by Canon Tristram himself,at Boulac, Egypt, who has kindly added the following remark fromhis notes:— I took the nest of Vanellus spinosus, in a field onthe hill opposite Boulac, on March 1st., 1858. The field wasfallow, and the four eggs laid after the manner of the Lapwings,on the bare ground, in a slight depression. The bird, which hadnot be
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