CHABADBIID^ : CHARADRIINJE : PLOVER. 



699 



the shell, with irregular blotches of brownish-black, smaller spots being more thinly distributed 

 over the rest of the surface ; the markings about the great end usually coutluent and wreathy ; 

 a few pale markings in the . -, . 



217. CHAKA'DRIUS. (Gr. -^^"^^^ — ^ ss- 



xapabpios, charadrios, Lat. __ ^^ 



charadrius, a plover.) -^0^^^k_ l~ - r^ 



Golden Plovers. Char- ~ ""~ 



acters as in Squataroln, 



but no hind toe. (Tliis m ^>'^S|?3[V^*T/'' 



is the type-genus of the 9k. ^^^^^^^r^' ^^^ ,,J^ ''v-<^ 



whole family. The several 



species are closely related : 



to our long known golden ^^^^^^^Bfe^ "If 



plover have lately been 



added as birds of N. A. '^^sf^^l^^^,' " .^.^^^^^^"^-^^^ 



hi )th the European species — *-^- -^ *- 



and the Asiatic variety ; 

 the former from its occur- 

 rence in Greenland the ^xg. 417. — Black-bellied Plover, in summer, reduced. (From Lewis.) 

 latter in Alaska. U. S. birds are all C dotninicus, — the C. virginicus of most authors.) 



Analysis of Species. 



Lining of wings ashy. 



Length 10.00-11.00 ; wing T.OO; tail 3.00 ; tarsus 1.75 dotninicus 581 



Length 9.00-10 00; wing 6.50; tail 2.50; tarsus 1.60 fulvus 582 



Lining of wings white pluvialis 683 



Ml. C. domi'nicus. (Lat. dominicus, of St. Domingo. Fig. 418.) American Golden Plover. 

 Field Plover. Bull-head Plover. Bull-head. ^9, in summer: Upper parts black, 

 everywhere speckled with golden -yellow, and mostly also with white, the brighter color in excess. 

 The markings of individual feathers are a tipping and one or several paired scallops. Hind neck 

 less strongly marked than crown or back. Forehead, and long stripe over eye snowy-white. 

 Region immediately around bill, sides of head to include eyes, and entire under parts, glossy 



brownish-black. Lining of wings, and axil- 

 lars, sooty -gray or ashy. Tail dusky grayish - 

 brown, with numerous irregular pale gray bars, 

 and reddish-brown shafts ; upper tail-coverts 

 and rump like back. Primaries fuscous, black- 

 ening at tips and whitening at bases of inner 

 webs, though without definite white spaces ; 

 shafts white for a space. Secondaries and 

 ^ many of the coverts, like the primaries, plain 



'^' ^*^ fuscous, without the golden and white fretwork 



of the back. Bill and feet black. Length 

 10.00-11.00; extent 22.50; wing 7.00; tail 

 8.00 ; bill 0.90 ; tibiae bare 1.00 ; tarsus 1.75 ; 

 middle toe and claw 1.20. <J 9 ; in wintei', 

 and young, much alike, very different from the 



. , „ . , , breeding dress : Upper parts much as before, 



Fig. 418. — Golden Plover, in fall or winter, reduced. ^ , . 



(From Nuttall.after — ?) hut colors not so pure and intense ; and spot- 



ting mostly golden, with little white if any. Front and line over eye not purely white, but 

 tawny, with dusky streaks. Tail lacking transverse bars, the feathers being dark grayish- 



