. A natural history of birds : illustrated with a hundred and one copper plates, curiously engraven from the life . js. au^fvdd. 7^ne//ud. V/u,truyr. Mi€^ J^ /%^tj/ ■^.i-^. £. ^//^n£^. J/i/lza-//^ Iffi^ Te^ d J^ii^zri&r. The ^■eenJ^l^nv^.ii ( 71 )The Green Plover, Pluvialis LXXV. IN Bignefs it equals or exceeds the Lapwing, weighing about nine Oun-ces; its Length from the Tip of the Bill to the End of the Tail iseleven Inches; Breadth when the Wings arc extended twenty four Inches;its Colour on the Top of the Head, Neck, Shoulders, Back, and in gene-ral the whole upper Sid
. A natural history of birds : illustrated with a hundred and one copper plates, curiously engraven from the life . js. au^fvdd. 7^ne//ud. V/u,truyr. Mi€^ J^ /%^tj/ ■^.i-^. £. ^//^n£^. J/i/lza-//^ Iffi^ Te^ d J^ii^zri&r. The ^■eenJ^l^nv^.ii ( 71 )The Green Plover, Pluvialis LXXV. IN Bignefs it equals or exceeds the Lapwing, weighing about nine Oun-ces; its Length from the Tip of the Bill to the End of the Tail iseleven Inches; Breadth when the Wings arc extended twenty four Inches;its Colour on the Top of the Head, Neck, Shoulders, Back, and in gene-ral the whole upper Side, is of a dark brown, thick fet with yellowifh greenSpots. If you obferve each iingle Feather, you will find the middle partto be dark brown,inclining to a black, and the Borders or Edges round aboutfpotted with a yellowifh green Colour; the Bill is ftreight and black, anInch long, furrowed about the Noftrils; the Neck is fhort, equal to a Lap-wings, ; the Breaft is of a pale brown, fpotted with a little deeper Shadeof the fame Colour ; the Belly is white, yet fome Feathers on the Sidesarc faintly fpotted with brown. Of the quill Feathers in each Wing the eleventh
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