. A history of British birds . ription of a young female, threeweeks or a month old, killed on Robinson July 25th, 1835,is as follows :— Forehead, throat, and sides of the face,cream-yellow, covered with small spots and fine streaks ofgreyish-brown. Crown of the head, occiput, and also thefeathers on the back, dark brown, all more or less broadlyedged with buff-orange. Scapulars and wing-coverts olive-green, deeply edged with reddish-white ; tail the same, finelymargined with white, the centre feathers broadly tipped withreddish-white, and the three lateral ones on each side endingin a large i
. A history of British birds . ription of a young female, threeweeks or a month old, killed on Robinson July 25th, 1835,is as follows :— Forehead, throat, and sides of the face,cream-yellow, covered with small spots and fine streaks ofgreyish-brown. Crown of the head, occiput, and also thefeathers on the back, dark brown, all more or less broadlyedged with buff-orange. Scapulars and wing-coverts olive-green, deeply edged with reddish-white ; tail the same, finelymargined with white, the centre feathers broadly tipped withreddish-white, and the three lateral ones on each side endingin a large irregular whitish spot. Sides of the neck, flanks,and a broad band above each eye, buff-orange, the formerfinely streaked with greyish-brown. Breast cinereous,slightly tinged with reddish-white, and marked on each sidewith large spots of olive-green. Belly white, finely spottedhere and there with greyish-brown. Bill black. Iridesdark brown. Legs pale olive-green ; soles bright yellow. RINGED PLOVER. 257 LJMWOLM. ^Egialitis hiaticula (LiniifBus*).THE RINGED hiaticida. ^GiALiTis, Boief.—Bill much shorter than the hecad, rather slender, straightto the end of the nasal furrow, which extends beyond the middle of the billthen slightly raised, but bent downwards at the tip; nostrils small, and moderately long, slender, bare for a short distance above the tarsal joint :tarsi reticulated. Toes three only, slightly webbed at the base. Tail broad,slightly rounded. Wings long, pointed; the first quill the longest; the innersecondaries attaining the tip of the third primary. This prettily-marked Plover is found throughout theyear on most of the shores of the British Islands, but moreparticularly frequents bays and flats along the coast where * Charadrius Hiaticula, Linnreus, Syst. Nat. Ed. 12, i. p. 253 (1766).t Isis, 1822, pp. 558 and III. L L 258 CHARADRIID^. the sea at its ebb retires to a distance, leaving extensivesurfaces of san
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