52 THE AUSTRAL AVIAN RECORD [Vol. III. 



PLUVIALIS DOMINICUS FULVUS. 



Owing to the kindness of Miss Haviland I am able to give 

 a description of a chick and immature of the above bird. 

 (For adult, see my Birds of Australia, Vol. III., p. 75, 1913.) 



Female, juvenile. — General colour above dark brown, in- 

 cluding the head, back, wings, and tail, the feathers margined 

 or spotted with bright golden yellow, upper wing-coverts 

 paler brown with lemon-yellow spots and margins ; bastard- 

 wing, primary-coverts and quills dark brown with white 

 edgings to the tips of the feathers, white shafts to the quills 

 and greyish-brown on the inner webs ; outer tail-feathers 

 paler brown than the middle ones and the light pattern 

 inclining to whitish ; base of fore -head, a small patch behind 

 the eye and hind neck covered with whitish down which 

 have dark bases on the latter ; lores and fore-cheeks golden 

 yellow, the feathers centred with brown ; hinder cheeks and 

 throat similar but paler ; chin and upper throat covered 

 with white down ; fore-neck and breast greyish-brown, the 

 feathers marked with lemon-yellow ; sides of body lemon- 

 yellow edged with dark brown which gives a barred appearance ; 

 middle of abdomen and under tail-coverts creamy -white, 

 the lateral under tail-coverts marked with brown ; axillaries 

 and under wing-coverts dusky brown. Collected on the 

 14th of August, 1914, at Golchika, Lower Yenesei, by Miss Maud 

 D. Haviland. 



Nestling in doivn. — Dusky black on the upper surface, with 

 golden yellow tips to the down more or less mixed with white, 

 the predominating colour being golden-yellow. Under-surface 

 dull white with blackish bases to the thighs and under-surface 

 of the wings. Collected on the 21st of July, 1914, at Golchika, 

 Yenesei, by Miss Maud D. Haviland. 



