CHARADRIUS. 



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yellow spots ; the neck behind, on the sides, and in front buffy, with a dusky 

 tinge and yellow edgings and spots to the feathers ; flanks pale brown, spotted 

 with soiled white. In the summer plumage, the upper plumage is much 

 darker, nearly black, the yellow spots less numerous and smaller, the forehead 

 is white, and the cheeks, throat, neck, and entire under parts are black ; 

 primaries black, shafts of the first three white ; secondaries tipped with 

 M-hite ; also the median wing coverts ; tail brownish with transverse bands of 

 black. 



Length. — lO to lO'S inches; wing 67S ; tail 275; bill at front o'Sy ; 

 tarsus 17s ; bill dusky at base, black at the tip ; irides deep brown. 



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

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



131. CharadriuS pluvialis, Linn., Syst. Nat. i. p. 251 ; Dresser, 

 B. Eur. \\\. ^. 460; Hume, Str. F. v. p. 247; id., vii. pp. 186; Murray, 

 Vert. ZooL, Sind, p. 225 ; Murray, Avif. Brit. Lid. ii. p. 584, No. 1258.— 

 The European Golden Plover. 



Charadrius pluvialis. 



Winter Plufnage. — Forehead yellowish white, streaked and spotted with 

 pale brown and grey ; head on the sides greyish brown ; the crown, 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 ; greater and lesser wing coverts 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 

 back. 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 



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