CnAKADEIID,!:. 4/ 



chin and throat white ; tail rather long and graduated ; bill yellow ; 

 terminal half black ; legs yellow ; iris very large and yellow. Length 

 16 inches. 



268. Cream-coloured Courser. Carsorlus r/aUicus (J. F. Gmelin), N.Africa, 

 An irregular, but not very rare straggler to England ; once to S. [Scotland ; Canaries, 

 not recorded from Ireland. Persia ' 



General colour sandy buff ; primaries and primary-coverts black ; Punjab. 

 axillaries blacl- ; bill as long as head, slightly curved ; legs greyish 

 white. Length 9|-10 inches. 



269. Golde:n^ Plover. Charadrius pluviaUs, Linnseus. Resident. 



Male in sj^rwr/. Above blackish, spotted with yellow ; chin, throat, 

 breast, and belly black *. 



Female. Less black below, being mottled with white feathers. 



In ivhiter. Below white, chest and flanks marked with brown. 

 Axillaries xvhite. Length 9 inches. 



270. AsrATic Goideis" Plover. Charadrius fulvits, J. F. Gmelin. Siberia to in 

 A rare or seldom recognized stragQ'ler. winter as far S. 



^ , as New Zea- 



Axillaries smohj grey ; otherwise as last, but slightly smaller. land. 



271. Grey Plover. Sqnatarola helvetica (Liuna)us). Autumn to 

 spring. 



Axillaries hlaclc ; small hind toe present. 



In spring. Above white, barred with black ; underparts black, or black 

 marked with white. 



In winter marked much as Golden Plover, but the yellow spots of that 

 ■ species are replaced by white, young birds only being marked with a few 

 yellow spots. Length 10-12 inches. 



272. Dotterel. Eudromias morinellns (Linnreus). Spring to autunni. 

 Mountains of Cumberland and AV-^estmoreland, and of Scotland ; else- 

 where only on passage in spring and autumn. 



Axillaries greyish. Crown nearly blac]v with \vhite lines below, all 

 round above eyes to bill ; chin and throat white ; upper breast chestnut- 

 red ; belly black. 



Females brighter than males. Length 9 inches. 



273. EiXGED Plover. ^Egialitls hiaticida (Linnceus). Resident. 

 Above hair-brown ; forehead white ; fore crown black, reaching to 



and below eyes on each side, and to base of bill and ear-coverts ; throat 

 white, forming a complete ring, below this a broad black band round 

 breast ; both these collars narrowing to a line round nape ; rest of under- 

 parts white ; eyelids, legs, and feet orange ; basal half of bill yellow, 

 rest black. 



* I have seen birds witl\ black markings beginning to show as early as 7th January, 

 and renitiiiiing as late as 20th September. 



