PLUVIALIS. 105 



64. Pluvialis dominicus. 



American Golden Plover. 



Fluvial is dominicus (P. L. S. Mull), Syst. Xat. Suppl. p. 116, 1776 



(S. Domingo) ; Braboui-ne & Chubb, B. S. Arner. i. p. 38, no. 375, 



1912. 

 Charadrius virginianus Cab. in Schomb. Eeis. Guian. ui. p. 750, 18-48. 

 Charadrius virgijiicus Salvin, Ibis, 1886, p. 178 (Ymoiani River, 



2700 ft.); Quelcb, Timehri (2) ii. p. 363, 1888 (Abarv River); id. 



op. cit. V. p. 107, 1891 (Georgetown) ; id. op. cit. x. p. 266, 1896 



(migration). 

 Charadrius dominicus Sharpe, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xxiv. p. 195, 1896 



(Roraima). 



" Black- breasts/' " Greenbacks " (QuekJi). 



Adult male. Upper parts black, varied with yellow and white 

 spots, and also white edgings to some o£ the feathers, becoming pale 

 brown on the greater upper wing-coverts and dark brown on the 

 bastard-wing, primary-coverts, and quills, the last being much 

 paler on the inner webs ; tail-feathers brown with whitish bars ; 

 forehead and eyebrow white ; a line under the eye and ear-coverts 

 dark brown ; under surface dark brown varied with grey or dull 

 white ; axillaries and under wing-coverts pale earth-brown. 



Total length 237 mm., culmen 26, wing 180, tail 64, tarsus 40. 



The female differs in being much more finely marked above and 

 in the absence of black or dark brown below. Wing 179 mm. 



The birds described are from the Abary River. 



Breedinff-season. Unknown in British Guiana. 



Ne&t. " It scratches a small hollow in the sand in which it lays 

 its two or three eggs " {Scliomhurglc) . 



Eygs. Uudescribed from British Guiana. 



licvKje in British Guiana. Abary River {McConnell collection); 

 Yuruani River, 2700 ft., Mount Roraimi (//. W/iiteli/). 



Extralimital Range. South America generally, North America, 

 and the greater portion of the Old World. 



Jlahits. Schomburgk (Reis. Guian. iii. p. 750) states that he 

 found this bird very common on the whole of the coast, especially 

 at the mouths of the rivers, where it prefers the sand-ljanks. 

 It scratches a small hollow in the sand in which it lays two or 

 three eggs. 



