364 BIRDS OF BRITISH BURMAH. 



Family CHARADRIID^. 



Genus CHARADRIUS, Linn. 

 712. CHARADBIUS FULVUS, 



THE EASTERN GOLDEN PLOVER. 



Charadrius fulvus, Gm. Syat. Nat. i. p. 687 ; Dresser, Birds Fur. vii. p. 443, pi. ; 

 Hume, S. F. i. p. 228, ii. p. 287 ; id. Nests and Eggs, p. 570 ; id. S. F. iii. p. 179 ; 

 Bl. B. Burm. p. 153 ; Salvad. Ucc. Bom. p. 313 j Armstrong, S. F. iv. p. 339 ; 

 Wardlaw Ramsay, Ibis, 1877, p. 468 ; David et Oust. Ois. Chine, p. 424 ; Anders. 

 Yunnan Exped. p. 676 ; Hume fy Dav. S. F. vi. p. 455 j Hume, S. F. vii. p. 482, 

 viii. p. 112 ; Scully, S. F. viii. p. 350 ; Lecjcje, Birds Ceylon, p. 934 ; Bingham, S. F. 

 ix. p. 197 j Oates, S. F. x. p. 237 ; Kelham, Ibis, 1882, p. 8. Charadrius 

 longipes, Temm., Bonap. Rev. Grit. 1850, p. 180 ; Jerd. B. Ind. ii. p. 636. 

 Pluvialis longipes, Temm., Bonap. Comptes Rend. 1856, pt. ii. p. 417. 



Description. Male and female in summer. Forehead white, continued 

 back over each eye as a broad supercilium extending down the sides of the 

 neck ; the whole upper plumage black, each feather with large marginal 

 yellow spots on both webs, the spots on the wing-coverts tending to white ; 

 primary-coverts and the greater series brown, tipped and margined with 

 white ; primaries brown, the central portion of the shaft whitish ; secon- 

 daries brown tipped with whitish ; tail blackish, irregularly barred with 

 white ; chin, throat, fore neck, breast and abdomen black ; vent and flanks 

 black mottled with white ; under tail-coverts white ; axillaries smoky 

 brown with white tips. 



Male and female in winter. The upper plumage is black, the feathers 

 margined with yellow ; the wing-coverts margined with dull white ; the 

 quills and tail much as in summer; forehead and sides of the head fulvous, 

 the latter part streaked with brown ; chin and upper throat fulvous-white ; 

 lower throat, fore neck, and feathers under the cheeks and ear-coverts 

 rather bright fulvous with minute streaks of brown ; breast greyish, the 

 feathers broadly margined with fulvous ; remainder of lower plumage pale 

 buffy white ; the sides of the body more or less marked and fringed with 

 fulvous ; axillaries smoky brown, tipped with white as in summer. 



No description can be made comprehensive enough to include all the 

 variations of plumage this bird is liable to in winter. The above descrip- 

 tion applies to the majority of birds shot from November to March ; but 

 birds in nearly full summer plumage may occasionally be obtained in 

 Burmah late in the spring and early in the autumn. 



Bill dark brown ; iris dark hazel-brown ; legs plumbeous ; claws horn- 

 colour. 



