290 GOLDEN PLOVER. 



lower parts ; the whole are white, on the chin and 

 throat nearly unspotted, on the neck and auricu- 

 lars having 1 narrow streaks of hair-brown along- 

 the shafts, and on the breast and upper part of the 

 belly, having those continued, more broadly ex- 

 panded upon the base of the feathers, and forming 

 a relief to the pale tips of those lying over them ; 

 the bill black; the feet and legs greyish-black. 

 Two specimens, shot a few years since, by the side 

 of one of the Lochmaben lochs, in the month of 

 August, had the ground colour of the upper parts 

 very dark, and the edging and angular spotting of 

 the feathers nearly of the tint of sienna-yellow, so 

 as to cause them to appear, when first taken up, to 

 be the Golden Plover; the breast and belly also 

 had the dark parts of the feathers much broader, 

 and the whole tinted over with yellowish wood- 

 brown. These were considered young birds ar- 

 rived from migration ; they were very tame, and 

 allowed an easy approach. A bird from the Cape 

 of Good Hope, apparently identical, is very dark 

 above, having the colour glossed with olive reflec- 

 tions, has no white on the forehead, and very few 

 light markings on the crown or centre of the back. 



THE GOLDEN PLOVER, SQUATAROLA PLUVIALIS. 



Charadrius pluvialis, Linn.y etc Pluvier dore, 



Temm. and French authors. Golden or Yellow 

 Plover of British authors. This species, though 

 retaining almost exactly the markings, and the 



