290 BRITISH BIRDS' NESTS. 



departing in September or October. Notes : a sweet, 

 ringing tsee, tsee, tsee, uttered pretty quickly. Local 

 and other names : Field Lark, Field Titling, Pipit 

 Lark, Tree Lark, Grasshopper Lark. Sits closely, 

 especially when incubation is advanced. 



PLOVER, GOLDEN. 



( Charadrius pluviatts.) 

 Order LIMICOL^: ; Family CHARADRIID^: (PLOVERS). 



Description of Parent 

 Birds . Length between 

 eleven and twelve inches. 

 Bill of medium length, 

 straight, and black. 

 Irides brownish - black. 

 On the forehead is a 

 band of white ; crown, 

 nape, neck, back, wing- 

 coverts, rump, and tail- 

 coverts, deep greyish- 



YOUNG GOLDEN PLOVER. ., ' ' I . 



brown, the edges and tips 



of the feather being marked v/ith yellow ; wing- 

 quills brownish-black ; tail dark brown, barred with 

 brownish-black and greyish-white. Chin, throat, 

 sides of neck, breast, and belly deep rich black, 

 bordered on the sides below the wings by a band 

 of white ; under tail-coverts white. Legs, toes, 

 and claws black. 



The female resembles the male, but both are 

 subject to some little variation, depending upon 

 constitutional vigour. 



Situation and Locality. On the ground. I have 

 met with nests in short closely-cropped heather 



