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feet, and claws black; iris dark hazel.' (Seehohm.) Length, 267; ciil- 

 men, 33 ; wing, 206 ; tail, 74 ; tarsus, 46. 



''Adult female in breeding plumage. — Above, not so strongly mottled 

 with black as the male, and consequently rather browner, especially on the 

 head : 1)lack of face and under parts not so much developed, these parts 

 being mottled with irregular black markings. Length, 279: culmen, 33; 

 wing, 203: tail, 74: tarsus, 46. 



''Adult in winter plumage. — Differs from the summer plumage chiefly 

 in wanting tlie black on face and breast, but, from the absence of black 

 mottling on the back, the whole upper surface appears more uniform, 

 being ashy brown with narrow whitish edgings to the feathers, before 

 which is a blackish subterminal shade; lores white, but base of forehead 

 like crown; a line of white above and below eye, but the white e3^ebrow 

 scarcely visible above the ear-coverts, which are dingy blackish; sides of 

 face white, streaked with dusky: throat and under parts pure white, 

 lower throat and fore neck pale ashy brown, slightly mottled with dusky 

 markings: under wing-coverts white, except the loMer primary-coverts, 

 which are dusky ashy; axillars black. 



''Young. — Like the winter plumage of the adults, and always to be 

 distinguished from the golden plover by the black axillars, though it is 

 spangled witli golden buff on the upper surface, as is the latter species." 

 (SJiarpe.) 



The gray plover, known as the black-bellied plover in the United 

 States, is found along the seashore in small numbers during the winter 

 months. As seen in the Philippines it is usually in the gray plumage 

 but as with its very near relative, the golden plover, individuals baving 

 the breast mottled with black are not uncommon. 



Genus CHAEADEIUS Linna-us, 1758. 



This genus differs from Squatarola in being smaller and in bu'king tlie 

 hind-toe. 



91. CHARADRIUS FULVUS Gmelin. 

 PACIFIC GOLBZN PLOVER. 



Charadriufi fulvus Gmelix. Syst. Nat. (1788), 1, 167; Oatks. Bds. Brit. 



Burmah (]88;3). 2, 304: :Mc-GREtiOR and ^YoRCESTER. Hand-List (1906), 



22. 

 Charadrius dom'inicus Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. jMus. (18J)6). 24, 195 

 (part); Hand-List (1899), 1, 152 (part); Gates, Cat. Birds' Eggs 



(1902). 2, 18 (part). 



Ca-sa-huit', Calayan; ma-tang-rd-ca. ^lanila. 



Balal)ac {Hteere, fiieere Exp.) ; Bantayan {McGregor) •, Basilan { Mcd'reyor) ; 

 Batan (McGregor) ; Bohol {Everett); Calaniianes {Bourns tC- M'orcester) ; Ca- 

 layan (McGregor); Cebu (Everett, McGregor); Cuyo (McGregor); Fiiga (Mc- 

 Gregor); Leyte (Everett); Lubang (McGregor); Luzon (Cuming, Meger, Everett, 

 Heriot, Whitehead, McGregor); Masbate (Bourns d- Worcester, McGregor); 

 Mindanao (Murray, Everett, Steere Exp. Bourns d- Worcester, Celestino) ; Min- 



