ALWARGRIM, AND GOLDEN PLOVER, ^gj, 



XXXIX. PLOVER. Gen. Birds, LXIX. 



Spotted Plover, Edxv. 140.— Le Plavler dore a gorge noire, De Bufon, viii. 85. 398. Alwargrjm. 

 Charadrius Apricarius. Alwargrira, Feun. Suec. N° 189. — Latham, nu 

 — Lev. Mus. — Bl. Mus. 



PL. With a Ihort bill, like that of the Swifs Sandpiper : the fore- 

 head white, from which a white line falls from each corner, along 

 the fides of the neck, and unites at the breaft; the whole intervening 

 fpace black, as are the breaft, belly, thighs, and vent ; only on the 

 laft are a few white fpots : crown, hind part of neck, back, and 

 coverts of wings and tail, dufky, moft elegantly fpotted with bright 

 orange : the primaries dufliy, edged with afli-color : fecondaries and 

 tail barred with dullcy and brown : legs black. Size of a Golden 

 Plover. 



Inhabits all the north of Europe, Iceland, Greenland, and Hud/git's PtAes. 



Bay, and all the ArSfit; part of Sibiria ; and defcends fouthward in its 

 migrations. Is called in Hudfon''s Bay, the Hawk's eye, on account 

 of its brilliancy. It appears in Greenland in the fpring, about the 

 fouthern lakes, and feeds on worms and berries of the Heath *. Ar*- 

 rives in New Tork in May : breeds there, and difappears in the latter 

 end of OBoher, after colledling in vaft flocks. Is reckoned moft 

 delicious eating. 



Jr. Zm/. ii. N° 208.— Le Pluvier dore, I>^5?v^«, viii. 81. — Pl.Enl.go^. '', ,g- Goidem, 

 Charadrius Pluvialis, Akerhoua, Faun. Suec. N° 190. — Latham iii. — Lev.' 

 Mus.— Bl. Mtrs. 



pL. With head, upper part of the neck, back, and coverts of 



wings, dufliy, elegantly fpotted with yellowifli green : breaft 



brown, ftreaked with greenifti lines : belly white : middle feathers^ 



of the tail barred with black and yellowifh green ; the others with 



* Faun. Gr'cenl. N° 79. 



3 0^2 black 



