GOLDEN PLOVER 



WHISTLING PLOVER YELLOW PLOVER GREEN PLOVER 



PLATE CL. 



Charadrius pluvialis, LINN.EUS. 



Charadrius auratus, ..... NAUMANN. 



THE Golden Plover commences its nest in Great Britain 

 about the middle of May. 



The nest is a very simple structure, being merely a few 

 stems of grass and fibres laid together in some small hollow 

 of the ground, only just large enough to contain them ; 

 what there is, is made the end of April or beginning of May. 



The eggs, four in number, are large in proportion to the 

 size of the birds. They are usually of a yellowish stone-colour, 

 blotted and spotted with brownish black. They are placed 

 quatrefoil with the small ends pointed together inwards. 



The young quit the nest as soon as hatched, and follow 

 their parents till able to fly and support themselves, which 

 is in the course of a month or five weeks. 



Mr. Booth describes the Golden Plovers as breeding in 

 considerable numbers on the Grouse moors of many of the 

 northern counties of the Highlands ; he states, " I have come 

 across their haunts repeatedly in Perthshire, Ross-shire, 

 Sutherland, and Caithness, as well as in the Western 

 Islands." 



