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THE AMERICAN GOLDEN PLOVER. 
(CHARADRIUS DoMINICUS.) 
Omitted from the B.O.U. List. 
Rejected by H. Saunders. 
Notified by Seebohm, 
who considers it conspecific with ‘Fulvus, 
This bird, like the last, has occurred once in Leaden- 
hall Market; it was examined in the flesh by Mr. Seebohm, 
who says “‘it is impossible to say where it was killed.” 
It has occurred in Heligoland. 
Dr. Coues, in his ‘ Birds of North West America,’ says 
that ‘ Virginicus’ is a variety of ‘Fulvus,’ distinct from 
‘Pluvialis,’ but in a note he says he is able “ ¢o announce 
that the true Fulvus 1s an inhabitant of North America, 
a bird identical with the Asiatic bird, and smaller than 
Virginicus.” 
My eggs were taken at Fort Resolution, Canada, by 
Mr. N. T. Wendall, who shot the bird at the nest to 
identify the eggs; they are, asI have said, larger, and 
brighter, and glossier than those of ‘Fulvus’; and in this 
resemble the eggs of ‘ Pluvialis.’ 
The eggs forbid the idea that ‘ Virginicus’ and 
‘Fulvus’ are conspecific. Two eggs which I have, taken 
by Mr. G. W. Nelson, at St. Michael’s, Alaska, on June 
20th, 1880, are however as small as ‘Fulvus’; but very 
bright and glossy; these are quite unlike any eggs of 
‘Pluvialis’ I have ever seen. 
