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Title: A history of the birds of Europe, not observed in the British Isles
Year: 1859 (1850s)
Authors: Bree, Charles Robert, 1811-1886 Fawcett, Benjamin, 1808-1893, engraver
Subjects: Pictorial works Birds
Publisher: London : Groombridge and Sons ...
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nceus.) BLACK-HEADED PLOVER. Charadrius cegyptius. Charadrius cegyptius, melanocepJialiis, cliloroceplialiis, Fluvianus aegyptius, Cursorius charadrioides,Ammoptila charadrioides, CJieilodromas melanocephalus,Pluvian du Senegal, melanocephale. Hasselquist; 1752.Gmelih; Syst., 1788.ViEiLLOT; Gal. Ois. pi. 233.Haetlaub; Ornith. West Africas, p. 209.Waglee.SwAiNSON; Classification of Birds, p. 364.EtJppELL; Mus. Senkenb. BUFFON. Of the Feench. Specific Characters.—Primaries wMte, with, tke base and apexblack; secondaries wbite, with the apex black; scapularies as longas the longest primary. Length, from tip of beak to end of tail,nine inches; wings five inches and three fifths; tail two inchesand seven tenths. Beak from forehead three fifths, from rictusfour fifths of an inch; tarsi one inch and three fifths; middletoe and claw one inch. This bird inhabits Egypt and Senegal, but it is,according to authors, occasionally found in Europe.Degland says that it has been captured in the south
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>o BLACK-HEADED PLOVER. 15 of France; and M. Crespon, in the Faune Mericlionale,mentions a female having been killed by M. Lebrun,in Herault, on the 20th. of November, 1840. Hartlaubgives Spain as a locality. There is no doubt, however, that it is extremelyrare as a European species, and I only introduce itas an accidental visitor, and because it ought to bewell known to ornithologists, should it turn up morefrequently in the south of Europe. The Rev. E. Cavendish Taylor kindly informs meit is very common in Egypt; where, however, itconfines itself to the shores and sand banks of theNile, from which it seems to derive its food. CaptainLoche says it occurs only accidentally in Algeria. Mr. Taylor says that he generally found it pairedin the months of December and January. It was verytame, and when it rose uttered a loud shrill note,from which both it and Ch. spinosus are called by theArabs Zic Zac. The flesh dark coloured, and not verygood eating. In the Ibis, vol. i, p. 52, Mr. Tay

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