. A history of the birds of Europe, not observed in the British Isles . ers.—Beak shorter than the head, slender,straight, compressed at its base, and swollen at its point;nasal furrow prolonged for two thirds of its length. Nostrilsbasal, lateral, linear, longitudinally cleft in the membraneof the furrow. Feet long, or of moderate length, slender;three toes all in front, the outer slightly connected at the baseto the middle toe by a membrane; the internal one Tailslightly rounded or square. Wings middle sized,—the firstquill slightly shorter than the second, which is the longestin the
. A history of the birds of Europe, not observed in the British Isles . ers.—Beak shorter than the head, slender,straight, compressed at its base, and swollen at its point;nasal furrow prolonged for two thirds of its length. Nostrilsbasal, lateral, linear, longitudinally cleft in the membraneof the furrow. Feet long, or of moderate length, slender;three toes all in front, the outer slightly connected at the baseto the middle toe by a membrane; the internal one Tailslightly rounded or square. Wings middle sized,—the firstquill slightly shorter than the second, which is the longestin the wing. SPUR-WINGED PLOVER. Charadrius sj)i?iosus. Charadrius spinosus, LiNN^us; 1766. ventralis, Waglee. * duvauceli, Lesson. Pluvialis senegalis armata, Bkisson. spinosus, Bonaparte. Hasselquist. Keyseeling et Blasius. Yanellus melasomus, Swainson. Pluvier arme commun, Of the Fbench. Gemeiner SpornJciehietz, Of the Geemans. Specific Characters.—Hair brown on the back; the pitchy blackfeathers of the occiput elongated into a crest; all the primaries. SPUR-WINGED PLOVER. 11 pitcliy black; a sliarp strong spur on eacli carpal joint. Lengtheleven inelies; from carpal joint to tip of wing eight inches;tarsus two inches and a half; beak one inch and one fifth; tailthree inches and a half. The European localities of the Spur-winged Ploverare Turkey, Greece, Russia, and occasionally Nordniann records having shot a male out of aflock of eight or ten, near Odessa, in 1837, in companywith a large flock of the Sociable Plover, Vaiiellusgregarius. In Africa it has a long range. It is verycommon in Senegal, whence it derives the name givento it by Brisson. Mr. Taylor (Ibis, vol. i., p. 58,) saysit is about the commonest bird in Egypt, and verytame. I do not find it included in Captain LochesCatalogue of the Avifauna of Algeria. In Asia wehave it recorded by Mr. Tristram, in Notes on BirdsObserved in Southern Palestine, (Ibis, vol. i., p. oQ,)two specimens having b
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