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CHARADRIUS FULVUS VAR. VIRGINICUS. {Cm.) Borck. 

 Golden Plover. 



Adult Male. — Above, speckled with yellowish or grayish ; 

 below, white, shaded and mottled with gray ; tail, ashy brown, imper- 

 fectly barred with gray; axillary phimcs., gray. 



Length 9.10, wing 6.60, tail 2.60, tarsus 1.70, bill .95. 



The Golden Plover occasionally visits the Bahamas. Mr. N. B. 

 Moore states that he procured two specimens at Long Island, Octo- 

 ber 8, the only ones observed by him. On several occasions I 

 observed wliat I believed to be this species, but was unable to pro- 

 cure a specimen. It frequents the marshes. It may be easily 

 distinguished in any plumage from the preceding by the coloration 

 of the axillary plumes. 



Fig. Aud. Bds. N. A., Vol. V. pi. 316. 



^CrALITIS VOCIFERUS. {Linn.) 

 KiLDEER Plover. 



Winter Plumage, Male. — Above, dark olive-brown; throat, white, 

 continuing in a band around the neck, edged below with black ; 

 narrow upon the back, and broad upon the upper part of the breast, 

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