. Illustrations of ornithology . f^1 Y /// >f/f/>/./ //I-? ;/r///.j. #/&adtM£J /■/<///€■/•; CHARADEIUS BICINCTUS, (nobis).Chesnut-breasted Dottrel. PLATE XXVIII. C. supra brunescens fasciis flavescentibus, fronte albo ; subtus albus cingulo pecto-rali nigro, altero abdominali castaneo. Chesnut-breasted Plover, Lath. Gen. Hist, of Birds, vol. ix. p. 324. No. 10. W e received the skin of this species from New Holland some years since,and we have not met with it in any collection except the Museum of theLinnean Society of London, where there is a specimen in apparently im-mature plumage.
. Illustrations of ornithology . f^1 Y /// >f/f/>/./ //I-? ;/r///.j. #/&adtM£J /■/<///€■/•; CHARADEIUS BICINCTUS, (nobis).Chesnut-breasted Dottrel. PLATE XXVIII. C. supra brunescens fasciis flavescentibus, fronte albo ; subtus albus cingulo pecto-rali nigro, altero abdominali castaneo. Chesnut-breasted Plover, Lath. Gen. Hist, of Birds, vol. ix. p. 324. No. 10. W e received the skin of this species from New Holland some years since,and we have not met with it in any collection except the Museum of theLinnean Society of London, where there is a specimen in apparently im-mature plumage. We have referred it to the Chesnut-breasted Plover ofLatham, whose description of that bird agrees nearly with our specimen ;and we do not think very slight differences, especially in birds so liable tovary as those of this genus, are sufficient to form permanent distinctions. The length is about seven inches and a half: the bill is black, lightertowards the base: the base of the upper mandible is surrounded by a nar-row circle of black, which extends in a
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