VOL. IX.] ASIATIC GOLDEN PLO\ ER. 89 



•of the Grey Plover in winter-dress, only that it is more 

 sufifused with ochre. 



The nestling was first described by Mr. H. L. Popham 

 {Ibis, 1897) as being more spotted, with white about the 

 sides of the head, than the chick of C. apricarnis. A 

 l)rood of four that I found much resembled the young 

 of C. apricarius except in the tint of the yellow down, 

 ^\ hich is gamboge in the eastern and ochre in the western 

 species. In C. julvus the pattern on the sides of the 

 head is present (not as in the young of the Grey Plover) 

 and follows the arrangement of colour of Charadrius 

 (ipricarms. However, the white tract between the 

 homogeneous mottling of the crown and nape, and the 

 successive black and yellow bands which lie above and 

 Ijehind the eye, and ^^•hich in C. apricarius is sometimes 

 hardly discernible, is very pronounced in C. julvus and 

 lias enlarged at the expense of the coloured bands below 

 it. Tlie nape and upper part of the body are more 

 spotted with white, and there is little or no yellow on 

 the cheek below the eye. 



The Asiatic Golden Plover is a late migrant from 

 Golchika. On August 26tli, a windy sunny day, as I 

 was walking beside the Yenesei, a flock of perhaps 

 thirt}^ flew close to me ; and during the stormy weather 

 that prevailed during the last days of the month, I saw- 

 several parties flying soutlwards up the river, but by 

 September 2nd the birds had all disappeared. 



