CHABABBIIBM : CRABABBIINM : PLOVEB. 



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the shell, with in'egular hlotohes of brownish-hlaok, 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 marldngs in the 

 sheU. 

 217. CHARA'DBIUS. (Gr. 



XapaSpws, charadrios, Lat. ^^M.j _ ~ «- 



charadrius, a plover.) ^^ /'^In ~ \* * ~ ^^^Tb. 



Golden Plovers. Char- 

 acters as in Sguatarola, 



but no hind toe. (This ^^H ^^ ^4]dHUfel£i^T)|r "^^^^ 



is the type-genus of the 

 whole family. The several -^^ . 



species are closely related : ■^ ^*^ _-=?''k ^^■nAf^- 



to our long known golden 

 plover have lately been 



added as birds of N. A. '"""C^^^Sa^**^ ' ~»^' 

 both the European species 

 and the Asiatic variety ; 

 the fonner from its occur- 

 rence in Greenland the 'Pv^- 417. — Black-bellied Plover, in summer, reduced. (From Lewii.) 

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



Analysis of Species. 



Linlug of wings ashy. 



Lengtli 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 fulvus 582 



Liningof wings white pluvialis 583 



S81. C domi'nlcus. (Lat. dommicus, of St. Domingo. Pig. 418.) American Golden Plover. 

 FiELU Plover. Bull-head Plover. Bull-head. ^ ?, 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 wimgs, 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 

 webs, though without definite white spaces ; 

 shafts white for a space. Secondaries and 

 -j^ rj^^j^ many of the coverts, like the primaries, plain 



■A'^^ji^^ fuscous, without the golden and white fretwork 



of the back. Bill and feet black. Length 

 10.00-11.00; extent 22.50; wing 7.00; tail 

 3.00 ; bill 0.90 ; tibia bare 1.00 ; tarsus 1.75 ; 

 middle toe and claw 1.20. $ ^ , in winter, 

 and young, much alike, very different from the 



^ ^ breeding dress : Upper parts much as before, 

 Fig. 418. — Golden Plover, in fall or winter, reduced. ° , . , ' 



(From Nuttall,after 7) out 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- 



