THE BULL-HEADED OR GOLDEN 

 PLOVER. 



CHARADEIUS PLUVIALIS. 



Description. " The golden plover is ten inches 

 and a half long, and twenty-one inches in extent; 

 bill, short, of a dusky slate color ; eye, very large, 

 blue black ; nostrils, placed in a deep furrow, and 

 half covered with a prominent membrane ; whole 

 upper parts, black, thickly marked with roundish 

 spots of various tints of a golden yellow; wing 

 coverts, and hinder parts of the neck, pale brown, 

 the latter streaked with yellowish; front, broad 

 line over the eye, chin and sides, of the same 

 yellowish white, streaked with small, pointed 

 spots of brown olive; breast, gray, with olive 

 and white ; sides, under the wings, marked thickly 

 with tran verse bars of pale olive ; belly and vent, 

 white ; wing-quills, black, the middle shafts 

 marked \vith white; greater coverts black, tipped 

 with white; tail, rounded, black, barred with 

 triangular spots of golden yellow ; legs, dark 

 dusky slate; feet, three-toed, with generally the 



