CHAR A DRIIDJZ — CHAR A DRIIN^E : PL VER. 



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about 9.50; wing 6.50; tail 2.60; tarsus 1.65 ; middle toe and claw 1.10; bill 0.90. Alaska, 



from Asia. 



C. aprica'rius. (Lat. apncari, to bask in the sun, take a sun-bath, apricate ; apricus, sunny. 



Linuieus had two names for this bird, apricnyiH!^ and pluvialis, the latter word meaning pluvial, 



rainy, being etymological ly 



the same as plover. C. phi- 



vialis of 1766 is u.sed by iiKisi 



authors, as in former editions 



of the Key; but C. apricarius 



of 1758 now takes ))recedence 



by our rules. It makes no 



difference about the bird, 



which is always tlie same, 



" rain or shine.") European 



GoLDEX Plover. Like C. 



dominicus, and of same size; 



feet stouter, with shorter tarsi, 



averaging under 1.60, thus 



both relatively and absolutely 



sliorter than in dominicus, 



and relatively shorter than in 



fulnis, which is a smaller 



bird ; but best di.stinguished 



Fio 



Golden Plover. (From Seebohm's Cliaradriidip.) 



from botli l)y always having the lining of the wings ichite. Greenland, from Europe. (Auk, 

 1889, p. 21/!) 



.iEGIALI'TIS. ((ir. ai-ytuXtV?;?, (ligiulites, masc, a doer by the sea, as we should say a " 'long- 

 shoreman," or alyidk'iTis, (ligialitis, fem. form of the same, from alyiaXos, aigialos, the seashore, 

 beach, with the suffix denoting agency. Both forms, ^gidlitis and yEyialites, are in common 

 use, without much regard to gender. I confess my own fault in this particular, and now revert 

 to the feminine form ^gialitis of the original edition of the Key, as that originally given by 

 BoiE, Isis, 1822, p. 558, and correctly in the A. 0. U. List. The accent is on the penult — 

 not on the antepenult, as commonly spoken by us.) Beach Plovers. Sand Plover.s. 

 Shore Plovers. Ring Plovers. A genus not easy to define with precision, owing to dif- 

 ferences in details of form which the numerous species present, but reatlily distinguished from 

 Charadrius by color : Upper parts not speckled; lower never extensively black, but white, 

 with bars or rings of color about head and neck. Tarsus not twice as long as middle toe with- 

 out claw (compare Fodasocgs). No trace of a hind toe (compare SqKutarola) ; front toes 

 with one basal web, or two. Bill thoroughly pluvialine, but of variable size. Sexes and ages 

 usually distinguishable. Plates of front of tarsus tending to enlarge in two or three special 

 rows, instead of uniform reticulation. There are many s]>ecies of several subgenera of these 

 " Ploverlets," found in nearly all parts of the world. We liave six perfectly good North 

 American species, a sui>.species of one of these, and two strairulers from Asia; they represent 

 the subgenera Oxycchus, (JcJithodromii.^, J^jgialciis, and yl'Jgidlilis proper. 



Annliisis of Subgenfra, Species, and Siihitpeeieji {adult malet). 



Tail half as lonpr as wine or nioro, extendinf; far boyoiid tip of wIiirh wIipii thov ore toldi-d. and j{nidu«t«>«l an Inch or 

 ninrp. Bill sleiidor. ( Suhfjomx OxYKCiivs.) 



Ulll lilai'k ; ninip briplit clii'stiiiit ; two black bands on throat and chpBt. N.Am. . -^era 



Tail not half as IniiR a.s winjf, nxteiiilinp littlo if any l)oyond tipa of wing when they arr folded. 



Feet seniipalmate, with 2 evident baxal wehH, that between outer and middle toe r«>«rhinK to end of 'id Joint of 

 the latter. Bill short, but stout and stubby. (Snhtjrntu .GoiAl.Bi;* > 



