. Birds in their haunts, by the late C. A. Johns . d, a band from the base of the beak extending throughthe eye, and a large spot on each side of the breast, black ; head and nape -Ught brownish red ; rest of the upper plumage ash-brown; two outertail-feathers white, the third whitish, the rest brown ; beak, irides, andfeet, brown. Female wants the black spot on the forehead, and the otherparts black in the male are replaced by ash-brown. Length six and ahalf inches. Eggs olive-yellow, spotted and speckled with black. The Kentish Plover differs from the preceding in its inferior size,in having
. Birds in their haunts, by the late C. A. Johns . d, a band from the base of the beak extending throughthe eye, and a large spot on each side of the breast, black ; head and nape -Ught brownish red ; rest of the upper plumage ash-brown; two outertail-feathers white, the third whitish, the rest brown ; beak, irides, andfeet, brown. Female wants the black spot on the forehead, and the otherparts black in the male are replaced by ash-brown. Length six and ahalf inches. Eggs olive-yellow, spotted and speckled with black. The Kentish Plover differs from the preceding in its inferior size,in having a narrower stripe of black on the cheeks, and in wantingthe black ring round the neck. It is found from time to time invarious parts of the country, breeding in Kent, Sussex and theChannel Islands, but is most abundant on the shores of the Mediter-ranean. Its halDits resemble closely those of the allied species. On the authority of the Greek historian Herodotus, a little birdis found in Egypt called the Trochilus, which is noted for the friendly. Curlew <yDotterel $ Peewit ?Norfolk Plover 2 Uoor p. »4G THE LAPWING, OR PEEWIT 247 and courageous office it performs for the Crocodile. This unwieldymonster, having no flexible tongue wherewith to cleanse its mouth,comes on shore after its meals, opens its jaws, and allows the Tro-chilus to enter and pick off the leeches and fragments of food, which,adhering to its teeth, interfere, with its comfort. This story waslong believed to be a fable ; but the French naturalist Geoffreyde Saint Hilaire has, in modem times, confirmed the veracity of thefather of history, and pronounces the TrochUus of the ancients tobe the Pluvier d Collier interrompu, the subject of the present Cayman of South America is also said to be indebted for asimilar service to the kindly offices of a little bird, which, however,is not a Plover, but a Toddy. THE LAPWING, OR PEEWIT VANELLUS VULGARIS Feathers on the back of the head elongated and curved
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