. A history of British birds . nd under tail-coverts, white; underwing-coverts and the axillary plume white ; legs and toesorange ; the claws black. The whole length of the adult bird is seven inches andthree-quarters. From the carpal joint to the end of thewing, five inches and a half: the wings pointed in shape ;the first quill-feather the longest. Adult females in summer have the black bands and collarnarrower than in the males, and the colours not quite sodecided ; both sexes in winter have the black and the whiteless pure in colour. Young birds of the year have the beak almost entirelybla
. A history of British birds . nd under tail-coverts, white; underwing-coverts and the axillary plume white ; legs and toesorange ; the claws black. The whole length of the adult bird is seven inches andthree-quarters. From the carpal joint to the end of thewing, five inches and a half: the wings pointed in shape ;the first quill-feather the longest. Adult females in summer have the black bands and collarnarrower than in the males, and the colours not quite sodecided ; both sexes in winter have the black and the whiteless pure in colour. Young birds of the year have the beak almost entirelyblack; they have no black band over the white one on theforehead; the lore, ear-coverts, and the collar round thelower part of the neck are only dusky brown ; legs and toespale yellow. Varieties of this species are not common, but Mr. has one, shot in Orkney, which is nearly white withdusky markings; and Mr. J. Whitaker, of KainworthLodge, Notts, has one with a stone-buif mantle. 262 :. ^GiALiTis cuKONicA (Gmelin*). THE LITTLE RINGED PLOVER. Charadrins minor. Of this rare visitant to Britain, the late Mr. Gould wrotein the Birds of Europe, We are indebted to our friendMr. Henry Doubleday, of Epping, for the loan of an exampleof this elegant little Plover, which he informs us was takenat Shoreham, in Sussex; and it would appear that thisspecimen was correctly identified. As regards the lateMr. Lubbocks statement in his Fauna of Norfolk, that two specimens of this bird in the Norwich Museum werebelieved by Mr. Denny, the curator, to have been killed inthe county; but the fact was not noted down at the time;Mr. Stevenson writes that only one of these is now inexistence, and the evidence is too vague to justify itsclaim to be considered a Norfolk bird. k * Cliaradrms curonicus, Gmelin, Syst. Nat. i. p. 684 (1788).because it inhabits Curonia (Courland). So-called LITTLE RINGED PLOVER. 263 The late Mr. E. H. Eodd obtained a specimen shot onth
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