. A history of the birds of Europe, not observed in the British Isles . rop, spotted like the wing coverts; abdomen pure white, the rest asin adults. This description fairly corresponds with specimens of theyoung in the collection of Mr. Harting. My figure is taken from a specimen from the Volga, sent me byCanon Tristram. The egg is in my own collection; it was taken inSouth Russia, and sent to me by Herr Moeschler. I have also aseries taken by Herr Glitsch in South Russia. The species has been figured by Bonaparte, Faun. Ital., pi. 41;and Gould, Birds of Europe, pi. 292. Mr. Harting informs m
. A history of the birds of Europe, not observed in the British Isles . rop, spotted like the wing coverts; abdomen pure white, the rest asin adults. This description fairly corresponds with specimens of theyoung in the collection of Mr. Harting. My figure is taken from a specimen from the Volga, sent me byCanon Tristram. The egg is in my own collection; it was taken inSouth Russia, and sent to me by Herr Moeschler. I have also aseries taken by Herr Glitsch in South Russia. The species has been figured by Bonaparte, Faun. Ital., pi. 41;and Gould, Birds of Europe, pi. 292. Mr. Harting informs me that Gray and Hardwick^s plate, in their^Illustrations of Indian Ornithology, of the Black-sided Sandpiperof Latham, which they identify with Chm^adrius ventralis of Wagier,is referable to the present species, and that Charadrius ventralis ofWagier is the Indian Spur-winged Plover. The latter, however, isfigured on another plate in the same work, and there correctlydesignated. By some confusion the authors have figured two verydifierent species under the same WHITE-TAILED PLOVER. WHITE-TAILED PLOVEB. 165 GRALLATOEES. Famihj CHARADRIIBy^. (Bonaparte.) Genus Ch^tusia. fBonaparte.) WHITE-TAILED PLOVER. Chcetusia leucura. LicHTENSTEiN. Eversman; Rcisc Bokh., p. 137. (1823.)Savigny; Descrip. de IEgypte, t. 6, fig. 2. (1825.)Audouin; op. ; Ibis, 1865, pi. 10. Gray; Hand List, No. ; Bull. Mosc, xxvi., p. 2, p. ; Traite dOrn., p. 542, (1831.) Specific Characters.—Head, neck, breast, and upper portions of the plumagevinous grey. Primaries black; secondaries white. Chin and tail and feet yellow. Eye large; iris hazel; eyelids red. Length eleveninches; wing from carpus to tip seven inches. Tarsus three inches; middletoe one inch and three tenths. Bill one inch and three tenths. Tail threeinches and two tenths. This bird was first noticed in Europe at ]Montpellier, in the soutliof France, (see Crespon, Eaune Meridionale, (1844,) and Ja
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