CHABADBIIBM: CHARABBIIN^ : PLOVEB. 



599 



the shell, with in-egular blotches of brownish-black, smaller spots being more thinly distributed 

 over the rest of the surface ; the markings about the great end usually confluent and wreathy ; 



a few pale markings in the -.=-__ ^_^? _ _.^_ 



shell. ^ ^""^ " "" 



217. CHARA'DRIUS. (Gr 

 Xapahpwi, charadrios, Lat 



charadrius, a plovei ) 



Golden Plovers. Ch ir- _^^^^|^ ^^^ ^1|^y " 



acters as in Squatarola, ^^^^issBL. 1fc^^^^BMH^^is^^^^^^^fe¥~^sa \ 



but no hind toe. (This 



is the type-genus of the ^ —^ :s !^ ^^R t^^S^^^^XS^^^ J^ ^'^ 



whole family. The several _ _^^ ^^^ 



species are closely related T.lli^'T^ i, n Z*' ^TBBSftiiff Miaarr... m'^h."'^ "^ "^~ f" - 



to our long known golden ^^^^^^^^^fc2U,i^ ^^^^^"^""""'jl ~ F ,^ ipMS 

 plover have lately been 



added as birds of N. A. _,:S^!^i^:^Ci„- "" _^^S^C^:"^=s^~r^ 

 both the European species ~«^S^- — ~~ ~- 

 and the Asiatic variety ; 

 the former from its occur- 

 rence in Greenland the Fig. 417. — Black-bellied Plover, in summer, reduced. {From Lewis.) 

 latter in Alaska. U. S. birds are all C dominicus, — the C. virginicus of most authors.) 



Analysis of Species. 



Lining of wings ashy. 



Length 10.00-11.00 ; wing 7.00 ; tail 3.00 ; tarsus 1.75 dominicus 581 



Length 9.00-10.00; wing 6.50; tail 2.50; tarsus 1.60 fulvns 582 



Lining of wings white pluvialis 583 



581. C. domi'nicus. (Lat. dommiciis, of St. Domingo. Fig. 418.) American Golden Plovee. 

 Field Plover. Bull-head Plover. Bull-head. <? 9 , in summer : Upper parts black, 

 everywhere speckled with golden-yellow, and mostly also with white, the brighter color in excess. 

 The markings of individual feathers are a tipping and one or several paired scallops. Hind neck 

 less strongly marked than crown or back. Forehead, and long stripe over eye snowy- white. 

 Region immediately around bill, sides of head to include eyes, and entire under parts, glossy 



brownish-black. Lining of wings, and axil- 

 lars, sooty-gray or ashy. Tail dusky grayish- 

 brown, with numerous irregular pale gray bars, 

 and reddish-brown shafts ; upper tail-coverts 

 ™ and rump like back. Primaries fuscous, black- 



ening at tips and whitening at bases of inner 

 vyrZk^^ii'a^s^^^'M >S^ webs, though without definite white spaces ; 



, J f r^r/r^Kfi^yJr^ W shafts white for a space. Secondaries and 



•'-Ai8p?S»^j«i X ,. many of the coverts, like the primaries, plain 



fuscous, without the golden and white fretwork 

 of the back. Bill and feet black. Length 

 10.00-11.00; extent 32.50; wing 7.00; taU 

 3.00 ; bin 0.90 ; tibiae bare 1.00 ; tarsus 1.75 ; 

 middle toe and claw 1.20. <? 9 , in winter, 

 and young, much alike, very different from the 



Fig. 418. -Golden Plover, in foil or winter, reduced. I'i'eeding dress: Upper parts much as before, 

 (From Nuttall, after - — ?) but colors not so pure and intense ; and spot- 



ting mostly golden, with little white if any. Front and line over eye not purely white, but 

 tawny, with dusky streaks. Tail lacking transverse bars, the feathers being dark grayish- 



