CHAKADRIUS FULYTJS. 



(THE ASIATIC GOLDEN PLOVER.) 



Charadrius fulvus, Gmel. Syst. Nat. i. p. 087 (1788) ; Sharpe & Dresser, B. of Ear. pt. 9 

 (1871); Swinhoe, P. Z. S. 1871, p. 403; Holdsw. P. Z. S. 1872, p. 470; Hume, Str. 

 Feath. 1873, pp. 228, 462, et 1874, p. 287, et 1875, p. 179, et 187(3, p. 463, et 1878 

 (B. of Tenass.), p. 455, et 1878, vii. p. 482, et 1879 (List B. of Ind.), p. 112; Buller, 

 B. of New Zealand, p. 202 (1873) ; Legge, Ibis, 1874, p. 27, et 1875, p. 400 ; Salvadori, 

 Ucc. di Born. p. 313 (1874); Hume, Nests and Eggs, iii. p. 570 (1875); Butler & 

 Hume, Str. Feath. 1876, p. 11 ; Armstrong, t.c. p. 339 ; Ball, ibid. 1878, vii. p. 226 ; 

 Seebohm, Ibis, 1879, p. 153. 



Charadrius xanthocheilus, Wagler, Gould, B. of Austr. vi. pi. 13 (1848). 



Charadrius longipes, Temm. apud Bonap. Eev. Crit. p. 180 (1850); Jerdon, B. of Ind. iii. 

 p. 636 (1864). 



Charadrius pluvialis, Linn., Sykes, P. Z. S. 1832, p. 166. 



Charadrius virginicus, Bechst., Blyth, Cat. B. Mus. A. S. B. p. 262 (1849); Kelaart, Prodromus, 

 Cat. p. 132 (1852); Layard, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 1854, xiv. p. 109. 



The Marbled Plover, Kelaart ; Chnipe, Dutch in Ceylon ; Sneppy, Portuguese in Ceylon ; 

 Trull, Java (Horsf.) ; Cheruling, Sumatra (Baffles) ; Sintar, Borneo (Mottley) ; Kotaii, 

 Tamils in Ceylon ; Chota battan, Hind. (Jerdon). 



Rana watuwa, also Oliija, Maha oliya, Sinhalese. 



Adult male and female (Ceylon). Length 9 - 3 to 1O0 inches ; wing G - 2 to 6 - 75 ; tail 2-3 to 2-G ; tarsus 1-6 to 1-bo ; 

 middle toe and claw 1-2 to 1-25 ; bill to gape 1-05 to l'l. 



Male (Eastern Bengal). "Wing 6-8 inches ; tarsus 1-66 ; weight 4-87 oz." (Cripps.) 



Winter plumage (Ceylon). Iris dark brown; bill blackish, gape and base beneath yellowish, in some blackish leaden 

 with the entire base pale ; eyelid olive-brown ; legs and feet plumbeous, varying in depth of colour. 



Top of the head, back, rump, and longer scapulars dull black, paling on the hind neck, wing-coverts, and tail to brown, 

 the greater coverts being lighter than the rest ; the feathers of the head have broad lateral margins of golden 

 yellow, and those of the back, rump, and scapulars lateral and double terminal spots of the same ; the paler 

 portions are similarly spotted with a lighter hue, those on the wing-coverts and tail being whitish ; greater 

 coverts and lateral tail-feathers tipped and edged with white ; quills blackish brown, narrowly tipped, as are the 

 primary-coverts, with white ; the central portion of the shafts white ; forehead, face, and throat whitish, paling 

 into pure white on the breast and belly ; the face, fore neck, and chest with dark centres to the feathers, and the 

 flanks barred with the same hue : on the chest the brown centres are broadest, imparting a dark appearance to it ; 

 axillary plume dark grey; lateral under tail-coverts with brown marginal spots. 



Breeding-plumage (Yenesay river). Wing 6-3 inches; tarsus 1-7; bill to gape 1-1. Under surface from the vent to 

 the chin black, covering the ear-coverts and entire face, and passing round the eye and over the lores across the 

 base of the forehead for about -^ inch from the bill ; flank-feathers white, barred with black, and the upper series, 

 next the chest, tinged in places with yellow ; the head, occiput, back, and scapulars blacker than in winter 

 plumage, and the spottings of a brighter golden yellow, and many of the tips of the feathers whitish ; across the 

 forehead, just above the black, is a broad band of white, passing over the eye and above the ear-coverts down the 

 side of the neck to the flanks ; the dark portions of the wing-coverts and tertials are black and the markings 

 yellower than hi winter ; under tail-coverts white, the shorter feathers patched with black, and the lateral feathers 



