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Boiled wliite. In tlie summer plumage, the upper plumage is mucli 

 darker, nearly black, the yellow spots less nmnerous and smaller, the 

 forehead is white, and the cheeks, throat, neck, and entire under 

 parts are black ; primaries black, the shafts of the first three white ; 

 secondaries tipped with white, also the median wing-coverts; tail 

 brownish with transverse band of black. 



Length.~lO to 10-5 inches, wing 675, tail 2*75, bill at front 0"87, 

 tarsus r75, bill dusky at base, black at the tip, irides deep brown. 



Hah. — Sind, Punjab, Kutch, Kattiawar, Deccan, and India generally, 

 in open plains or in the vicinity of rivers and ploughed fields. 



Charadrius pluvialiSj Llim. — The European Golben Plover. 



Winter Plumage. — Forehead yellowish white, streaked and spotted 

 with pale brown and grey; head on the sides greyish brown • the ci^owii, 

 back of neck and nape greyish brown with purple reflections and 

 yellow angular spots on the edges and tips of the feathers; chin and 

 throat whitish ; breast dusky greyish white, tinged yellow, and spotted 

 with darker grey ; axillary plumes white ; gre?oter and lesser wing-covei t s 

 greyish black, the spots paler and the feathers of the greater coverts 

 tipped with white; the tail is deep brown, and barred obliquely with 

 yellowish or yellowish white ; upper tail-coverts like the l)ack. In 

 summer it undergoes the same change as longipes, but the yellow 

 becomes brighter, and the lower parts intense black, except the sides 

 of the neck, breast and body, which are yellowish white, with dark and 

 dusky patches or marblings ; primaries and secondaries dusky brown, 

 the shafts of the first five wliite anteriorly. 



Length. — 10-5 to 11 '5 inches, wing 7'5, bill black, irides deep bro-wn. 



Hah. — Siud, Punjab, and Beloochistan. 



This species was first entered in the Sind list by Mr. Hume witli a 

 query. Since then all the specimens obtained by myself and others 

 were longipes. In my Hand Book mention was made tly^t pluvial i^ 

 would be found to occur, Mr. Blanford having recorded it from 

 only 200 miles further west at Gwadur. Mr. Brooks, Stray Featlers, 

 viii. 489, records it now from near Sehwan, Mr. Hume, in vol. i. p. 22-9 of 

 Stray Feathers^ points out the difference between fulvus or longipes 

 find virglniciis from America. Ho sa3^s, '^ phimalis is at once distin- 

 guished by its pure white axillary plumes, which in falvns are 

 brownish or smoke grey, Fulvns and virginicus differ chiefly in their 

 relative proportions, the former being always smaller.'^ The following 

 are the dimensions of the three given by Harting : — 



Bill. Wing. Tarsus. 



C. Virginicus 1- 7 to 7'4 1-6 



C. Fidvus 0-8 to €'9 C-4 to 6*6 1-5 



a Pluvialis 0-9 7-5. 14 

 Gen. .ffigialitis.~2?o{e. 

 Bill slender, grooved on upper mandible for two-thirds its length ; 



front of bill raised; upper mandible slightly the longer; 1st quill 

 longest, 

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