GOLDEN PLOVER. 



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the neck, white ; fore part of the crown, and auriculars 

 from the bill backwards, blackish olive ; eyelids, bright 

 scarlet ; eye, very large and of a full black ; from the 

 centre of the eye backwards, a stripe of white ; round 

 the lower part of the neck is a broad band of black ; 

 below that, a band of white, succeeded by another 

 rounding band or crescent of black ; rest of the lower 

 parts, pure white; crown and hind head, light olive 

 brown ; back, scapulars, and wing-coverts, olive brown, 

 skirted with brownish yellow; primary quills, black, 

 streaked across the middle with white ; bastard wing 

 tipt with white; greater coverts, broadly tipt with 

 white; rump and tail-coverts, orange; tail, tapering, 

 dull orange, crossed near the end with a broad bar of 

 black, and tipt with orange, the two middle feathers 

 near an inch longer than the adjoining ones, legs and 

 feet, a pale light clay colour. The tertials, as usual in 

 this tribe, are very long, reaching nearly to the tips of 

 the primaries ; exterior toe joined by a membrane to 

 the middle one, as far as the first joint. 



197. CIIAKADBIVS PLVrfALIS, LINNAEUS A!O> WILSON. 



GOLDEN PLOVER. 

 WILSON, PLATE LIX. FIG. V EDINBURGH COLLEGE MUSEUM. 



THIS beautiful species visits the sea coast of Ne\r 

 York and New Jersey in spring and autumn ; but does 

 not, as far as I can discover, breed in any part of the 

 United States. They are most frequently met with 

 in the months of September and October; soon after 

 which they disappear. The young birds of the great 

 black-bellied plover are sometimes mistaken for this 

 species. Hence the reason why Mr Pennant remarks 

 his having seen a variety of the golden plover, with 

 black breasts, which he supposed to be the young.* 



The golden plover is common in the northern parts 

 of Europe. It breeds on high and heathy mountains. 

 The female lays four eggs, of a pale olive colour, varie- 



* Arctic Zoology, p. 484. 



