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beautifully variegated, while the belly is white ; the 

 wings are steel-blue, or ash with white and chestnut 

 red in parts ; the tail short, black, with white at 

 extremity ; legs a dusky purple red ; the young have 

 a little more yellow in the tinting ; the colours of the 

 female are slightly subdued. 



THE GOLDEN FLOVEE. 



The Golden Plover (Squatarola plumalis ; Chara- 

 drius plumalis, Linn.). The presence or want of 

 a hind toe seems to have decided our naturalists 

 upon their generic distribution of the plover family. 

 There are two species of plover so called, the Great 



