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GOLDEN PLOVER. 
it very difficult to separate tliem with accuracy ; 
and as many of the species described by Latham 
are noticed in so brief a manner, and without any 
reference to plates, I am obliged to omit them, 
being fearfid of creating more confusion tlian 
there is at present in this puzzling genus. 
A. Al^ miiticcE. 
A, Wings spurless, 
a. Capite caruncula non instrucla. 
a. Head not furnished with a wattle. 
GOLDEN PLOVER. 
(Charadrius pluvialis.) 
Ch. corpore nigro viridiquc maculato subtus albido, jicctore griseo 
maculis nigricaniibus, rostro pedibusque cinereis. 
Plover with the body spotted with black and green ; beneath 
whitish 5 the breast grey, with dusky spots ; the beak and 
feet grey. 
Charadrius pluvialis. Linn. Spst. Nat. 1. 254. 7* — Linn, Faun. 
Suec. IgO. — Gmel. Syst. Nat. 1. 688. — Btiss. Orn. 5. 43. 1. 
pi. A. J~. 1. — Lath. Ind. Orn. 2.’ /40. 1. — Leach. Cat. Brit. 
Mus. ]). 28., 
Pluvialis viridis. Raii. Syn. 111. a. 2. 
Pluvialis aurea minor. Briss. Orn. 5. 4". 2. , 
Le Pluvier dore. Buff'. Ois.S.Sl. — Buff. PI. Enl.QOA . — Temm. 
Man. d'Orn. 324. 
Green Plover. Lore. Faun. Oread, p. 88. 
