174 NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 



brown, light dull buffy, pale grayish buff, or olive -buff, spotted, 

 chiefly round larger end, with black, the larger of these spots often 

 confluent. Hab. Breeding in Arctic America, east of coast of 

 Bering's Sea and Straits, migrating south, in winter, throughout 

 nearly the whole of America (except Pacific coast?), as far as 

 Patagonia... 272. C. dominicus MULL. American Golden Plover, 

 c*. With shorter wings, relatively longer tarsi and toes, and decidedly 

 more golden coloration, especially in immature and winter plu- 

 mages; length 7.80-10.00, wing 6.10-6.80 (6.40). culmen .85-1.00 

 (.92), tarsus 1.55-1.85 (1.72), middle toe .85-95 (.90). Eggs 2.02 X 

 1.30, similar in coloration to those of C. dominicus. Hab. Breeding 

 in northern Asia, and Alaskan coasts of Bering's Sea and Straits ; in 

 winter, south through India, China, etc., to Australia and Polynesia. 

 272<2. C. dominicus fulvus (GMEL.). Pacific Golden Plover. 



GENUS ^GIALITIS BOIE. (Page 172, pi. LIL, figs. 3-5 ; pi. LIIL, figs. 1-3.) 



Species. 



a 1 . Tail at least half as long as the wing, extending half its length, or more, beyond 

 tips of closed wings ; graduated for more than length of inner toe, without 

 claw ; rump and upper tail-coverts ochraceous ; chest crossed by two black 

 bands. (Subgenus Oxyechus EEICHENBACH.) 



Adult : Upper parts generally, except rump and upper tail-coverts, grayish 

 brown ; forehead, stripe over ear-coverts, chin, throat, collar round hind- 

 neck, and lower parts, white; fore-part of crown, stripe across lores, 

 collar completely encircling lower part of neck, and broad band across 

 breast, black ; tail chiefly pale ochraceous, varied with white, dusky, 

 and grayish ; bill black ; eyelids bright orange-red in life. Young : 

 Similar to adult, but feathers of upper parts more or less distinctly mar- 

 gined with pale rusty or ochraceous. Downy young : Top of head and 

 upper parts generally grayish brown, the two areas encircled with black, 

 and separated by a white collar across nape ; lower parts white, inter- 

 rupted by a black collar completely encircling the lower neck, and 

 forming a broad band across chest ; a narrow line of black across lores ; 

 sides and flanks light brownish buff; a broad bar of black along humeral 

 region, and a narrow stripe of same along middle of rump ; hand- wing, 

 and hinder edge of arm-wing, white. Length 10.00-11.25, wing 6.20-6.75, 

 tail 3.60-4.10, culmen .70-.90, tarsus 1.40-1.55. Eggs 1.47 X 1-04, pale 

 dull buffy, thickly speckled and irregularly spotted with black. Hab. 

 Whole of temperate North America, migrating in winter to West Indies, 

 Middle America, and northern South America; Bermudas. 



273. A. vocifera (LiNN.). Killdeer. 



a 2 . Tail less than half as long as wing, reaching but little if any beyond tips of the 

 latter when folded ; even, or graduated for much less than length of middle 

 toe, without claw ; rump concolor with the back ; chest crossed by only one 

 band (black, grayish, or rufous), or none at all. 



