ALWARGRIM PLOVER, 
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consider distinct, as I have never seen a specimen 
that was captured in England, where the Golden 
Plover is very common, and has been observed at 
all seasons. This is the size of the last described : 
its beak is one inch in length, and black : eyelids 
dusky: irides brown : the plumage on the upper 
parts of the body is black, spotted with orange : 
at the base of the upper mandible the feathers are 
black : the forehead, between the eyes, white, pass- 
ing over each eye in a line down the sides of the 
neck to the breast, where it unites to a band of the 
same across the latter : all the fore-parts of the 
neck, breast, and under parts of the body, are also 
black, the band on the breast excepted : the rest 
is spotted with white : the secondaries, quills, and 
tail, are barred with brown and black : legs black. 
The male has the temples black ; in the female 
they are dusky. 
'1 his species inhabits tlie most northern parts of 
Europe, Asia, and America, being found in Sweden, 
Denmark, Greenland, Russia, Siberia, Hudson’s 
Bay, and New York. In Greenland it appears 
early in the spring, rather sparingly, on all the 
southern lakes, feeding upon worms and the buds 
of the black-berried heath : after breeding it re- 
turns southward. Its flesh is said to be exquisite. 
It is called in America the Large Whistling Field 
Bird, from its note, which is very shrill. 
