WINTER PLOVER 187 
down from the sky, the sight almost took my breath 
away with astonishment. 
The Golden Plover appears to be most abundant 
on the pampas between the thirty-fourth and thirty- 
sixth parallels of latitude, but how far south its range 
extends has not yet been ascertained. The return 
migration begins early in March, and yet Mr. Barrows 
met with it in the neighbourhood of Bahia Blanca 
and on the Sierra de la Ventana from 8th February 
to 19th March. During most of this time, he says, it 
was abundant in flocks of from twenty to two hun- 
dred birds, which appeared to be moving uniformly 
south or south-west. 
WINTER PLOVER 
Eudromias modesta 
Above brownish cinereous; frontal band and superciliary stripe 
white ; wings and central tail-feathers blackish; lateral tail-feathers 
white, the inner ones with an imperfect black subterminal band ; 
beneath, throat cinereous, breast bright chestnut with a black band 
below; belly white; bill black, base of lower mandible yellowish ; 
feet brown; length 7.5, wing 5.3 inches. Female similar. Young 
without the rufous chest. 
THIS species in its gait, flight, and general appearance 
closely resembles the American Golden Plover, but 
is smaller than that bird, and its sober upper plumage 
is unrelieved with flecks of golden colour. It breeds 
in South Patagonia and the Falklands, and migrates 
north in autumn, appearing on the pampas in April, 
and being met with there throughout the winter ; 
