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This species closely resembles the Golden Plover of Europe 

 (C. apricarius), but in our bird the lining of the wings is gray, 

 while in the European it is white. 



Measurements about as follows : length ten and a half inches ; 

 extent twenty -two inches ; bill one inch long. 



A delicious bird for the table, and everywhere regarded as 

 such ; breeding in the Arctic regions, and migrating in large 

 flocks to the southern extremity of South America. 



AMERICAN GOLDEN PLOVER: COMMON PLOVER: WHISTLING 

 PLOVER (see No. 55) : GOLDEN-BACK: BULL-HEAD (see No. 55). 

 Edwards, 1750, describing it under the name of the SPOTTED 

 PLOVER, says : " This bird was brought from Hudson's Bay by 

 Mr. Isham. I suppose when it is living it has a bright shining 

 eye, because I find by my friend Mr. Isham's account that the 

 English settled in Hudson's Bay call it the HAWK'S EYE." 

 Wilson, citing Pennant, credits the Black-bellied Plover, No. 

 55, with this name Hawk's-eye, believing Pennant's "Al war- 

 grim Plover " (Arctic Zoology, p. 483, No. 398) to be the latter 

 species. 



In Maine at Ash Point, FIELD-BIRD ; at Bath, THREE-TOED 

 PLOVER ; and a venerable gunner of Bath, Mr. Samuel Foote, 

 remembers this latter name as so applied in his early childhood. 

 At Portland, Me., and in Massachusetts at Kowley, Ipswich, 

 North Scituate, North Truro, and North Plymouth, and at 

 Stonington, Conn., BLACK-BREAST (see Nos. 53, 55). At Port- 

 land, Me., Bellport, L. L, and Stratford, Conn., GOLDEN PLOVER. 

 At Portsmouth, N. H., and in Massachusetts at Salem and Chat- 

 ham, GREEN PLOVER. At Provincetown, Mass., and Moriches, 

 L. L, GREEN-BACK. In Massachusetts at Eowley, BRASS-BACK ; 

 at Ipswich and North Scituate, PALE-BREAST ; at Provincetown, 

 New Bedford, and Chatham, PALE-BELLY ; these last tAvo names 

 being applied only to the young birds, which are regarded by 

 many as a distinct species or variety. At West Barnstable and 

 New Bedford (Mass.), and Newport, R. L, GREEN-HEAD ; and 

 to the old people of West Barnstable, PASTURE-BIRD (a name 

 now seldom heard, but used there by every one until fifteen or 



