Br: 
CHARADRIUDA: CHARADRIINA: PLOVER. 099 
the shell, with irregular blotches of brownish-black, smaller spots being more thinly distributed 
over the rest of the surface; the markings about the great end usually confluent and wreathy ; 
a few pale markings in the 
shell. 
CHARA’DRIUS. (Gr. 
xapadpuos, charadrios, Lat. 
charadrius, a plover.) 
GOLDEN PLovERS. Char- 
acters as in Squatarola, 
but no hind toe. (This 
is the type-genus of the 
whole family. The several 
species are closely related : 
to our long known golden 
plover have lately been 
added as birds of N. A. 
both the European species 
and the Asiatic variety ; 
the former from its occur- 
rence in Greenland, the Fig. 417. — Black-bellied Plover, in summer, reduced. (From Lewis.) 
latter in Alaska. U.S. birds are all C. dominicus, — the C. virginicus of most authors.) 
Analysis of Species. 
Lining of wings ashy. 
Length 10.00-11.00 ; ‘wing 7.00; tail3.00 ; tarsus1.75 . . . 1... +... .. « «dominicus 581 
Length 9.00-10.00; wing 6.50; tail 2.50; tarsus1.60. . . 2. . 2. +. 1 s+ pe ee ee Julvus 582 
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C. domi/nicus. (Lat. dominicus, of St. Domingo. Fig. 418.) AMERICAN GOLDEN PLOVER. 
Fretp PLover. BuLu-HEAD Plover. BULL-HEAD. ¢ Q, in summer: Upper parts black, 
everywhere speckled with golden-yellow, and mostly also with white, the brighter color in excess. 
The markings of individual feathers are a tipping and one or several paired scallops. Hind neck 
less strongly marked than crown or back. Forehead, and long stripe over eye snowy-white. 
Region immediately around bill, sides of head to include eyes, and entire under parts, glossy 
brownish-black. Lining of wings, and acil- 
lars, sooty-gray or ashy. Tail dusky grayish- 
brown, with numerous irregular pale gray bars, 
and reddish-brown shafts ; upper tail-coverts 
and rump like back. Primaries fuscous, black- 
ening at tips and whitening at bases of inner 
webs, though without definite white spaces ; 
shafts white for a space. Secondaries and 
many of the coverts, like the primaries, plain 
fuscous, without the golden and white fretwork 
of the back. Bill and feet black. Length 
10.00-11.00; extent 22.50; wing 7.00; tail 
3.00; bill0.90; tibiz bare 1.00; tarsus 1.75 ; 
middle toe and claw 1.20. @ Q, in winter, 
and young, much alike, very different from the 
Fiq. 418. — Golden Plover, in fall or winter, reduced. breeding dress : Upper Bs much as before, 
(From Nuttall,after —?) but colors not so pure and intense ; and spot- 
ting mostly golden, with little white if any. Front and line over eye not purely white, but 
tawny, with dusky streaks. Tail lacking transverse bars, the feathers being dark grayish- 
