732 CHARADRIUS 



Pluvier dord, French ; Tarambola, Portug. ; Chorlito, Span. ; 

 Piviere, Ital. ; Gold-Regenpfeifer, German ; Goud Plevier, Dutch ; 

 Brokfiigl, Norweg. and Dan. ; Ljung-pipare, Swed. ; Hutti, 

 Lapp. ; Tunturikurmitsa, Finn. ; Rsharika, Sivka y Kuss. 



o ad. (Sweden). Crown, nape, and upper parts generally black or 

 brownisli black, spotted and marked with golden yellow, and to a small 

 extent with white ; forehead and super ciliary stripe whitish ; tail blackish, 

 transversely marked with whitish and a little golden yellow ; sides of face, 

 neck, breast, and under parts black ; flanks mottled with dusky ; sides of 

 tail-coverts white ; under wing-coverts and axillaries white ; bill black ; 

 legs bluish grey ; iris dark brown. Culmen TO, wing 7'1, tail 3'4, 

 tarsus 1*6 inch. Sexes alike, except that the female has the breast some- 

 what tinged with brown. In the winter the black on the throat, neck, 

 and under parts is wanting, these parts being white ; chest and flanks 

 mottled with greyish brown and washed with golden yellow. 



Hob. Europe generally, to the North Cape, breeding in 

 Iceland, straying to Greenland, and breeding as far south as 

 North Central Europe ; Africa in winter, south to Cape 

 Colony ; Madeira ; Asia, east to the Yenesei river, south, 

 occasionally, to India. 



Frequents open ground, moors, swampy localities, cultivated 

 ground, and the sea-shore, and is as a rule shy and wary. It 

 feeds on worms, insects, larvae, and to some extent on berries 

 and seeds, and feeds chiefly at night, being semi-nocturnal. 

 Its call-note resembles the syllable thd y and its nuptial call 

 is a long shrill note, taludl-taludl-taludl-tahidl. Its nest is 

 a mere depression in the ground, very scantily lined with 

 a few grass-bents, and the eggs, usually 4 in number, are 

 deposited late in April or early in May, and are pale clay- 

 brown or yellowish grey in ground-colour, and sometimes 

 reddish buff, spotted and blotched with purplish brown under- 

 lying-, and rich dark brown overlying surface-markings, and 

 in size measure about 2*0 by 1*28. 



1021. EASTERN GOLDEN PLOVER. 

 CHARADRIUS DOMINICUS. 



Charadrius dominicus, P. L. S. Miiller, Natursyst. Suppl. p. 116 (1776) ; 

 Sharpe, Cat. B. Br. Mus. xxiv. p. 195 ; Kidgway, p. 174 ; Saunders, 

 p. 549 ; Poynting, p. 49, pi. 12 ; C. fulous, Gmel. Syst. Nat. i. 

 p. 6"87 (1788) ; Dresser, vii. p. 443, pis. 516, 517, figs. 2, 3 ; Tacz. 

 F. 0. Sib. 0. p. 815 ; Blanf. F. Brit. Ind. Birds, iv. p. 234 ; 

 Poynting, p. 45, pi. 11 ; C. virguncus, Licht. Verz. Doubt p. 70 

 (1823). 



