A voyage round the world; but more particularly to the north- west coast of America: performed in 1785, 1786, 1787, and 1788, in the King George and Queen Charlotte, Captains Portlock and Dixon . e body, a reddifhbrown; the fides of the head, quite round the eye, thecheft and fore-part of the neck, white ; at the lower partof the laft a bar of reddifh brown; the breaft yellowifh;the reft of the undcr-part dufky white; the leffer wing-coverts yellow ; the reft of the wing, like the back andedges of the feathers, yellowifh; the tail reddifh brown,all but the two outer feathers on each fide, whic
A voyage round the world; but more particularly to the north- west coast of America: performed in 1785, 1786, 1787, and 1788, in the King George and Queen Charlotte, Captains Portlock and Dixon . e body, a reddifhbrown; the fides of the head, quite round the eye, thecheft and fore-part of the neck, white ; at the lower partof the laft a bar of reddifh brown; the breaft yellowifh;the reft of the undcr-part dufky white; the leffer wing-coverts yellow ; the reft of the wing, like the back andedges of the feathers, yellowifh; the tail reddifh brown,all but the two outer feathers on each fide, which areyellow ; legs yellow. Thy. female is much like the jnale^ but the lefler wing-coverts incline to yellowifh afh-colour; the fides of thehead, the cheft, and throat, duiky white. Rufiy-crowned ^-S\z& of the ringed plover-,length feven inches and a half; bill three quarters of aninch long, and black ; the forehead, cheft, all the fore-partof the neck, the upper part of the breaft, and the belly,white ; acrofs the top of the head is a bar of black pafTingdownwards on each fide of the neck in an irregular mannerto the wings, and from thence forwards acrofs the lower part 5 °^. THE ]aUSTY CKOWNli TJLOy3EM,MA]L]E,
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