Nestling Plumage of the Asiatic Golden Plover. 717 



Yeaesei. In coraparinnj them with such specimens of the 

 common Golden Phn'er as I have been able to obtain^ it is 

 apparent that in both species the raarkin,^s follow the same 

 pattern, but in different proportions. In this they differ 

 from the chick of Sqnatarula squatarola, whose markings 

 follow no definite pattern. In the young C. apricarius there 

 is a yellow tract immediately above and behind the eye. 

 Above this and following the same curve there is a more or 

 less well-defined black streak. Upon the latter and much 

 constricted at the centre over the eye, is a whitish streak. 

 This white streak varies much in different individuals. 

 Sometimes it is hardly marked ; at other times it is quite 

 distinct. In the latter case it seems to occur together with 

 a white spot at the base of the upper mandible, and with a 

 certain proportion of grey mingled with the mottling of the 

 nape. Under the eye is a very well-defined pale patch 

 bounded below by a broad black stripe margined with yellow, 

 which distinguishes the down of the cheek from that of the 

 throat. 



In C. fulvus the white patch above the orbit has greatly 

 increased in width until the black and yellow bands below 

 it have been, as it were, crowded together on to the eyelid, 

 and instead of l>ing parallel to one another, they have 

 broken alternately to dovetail, like two cogs, to use a 

 mechanic's simile, which have meshed together. Below the 

 eye the black and yellow band has shrunk to a broken 

 streak, and there is no division between the white down of 

 the throat and that of the cheek. The body-down is more 

 mixed with grey than in the western species, but the 

 longitudinal dorsal bands are not well defined. 



The yellow of the down is of a different tint in the two 

 species, being ochre in C. apricarius and gamboge in 

 C. fulvus. The suggestion has been made to me that the 

 head of C apricarius is stouter and broader than that of 

 C. fulvus, but that appearance would depend much on after- 

 treatment of the skin. 



