BIRDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 83 
1884, 43, 412.—Murray, Vertebr. Fauna Sind, 1884, 225.—Suarps, ed. 
Layard’s Birds South Africa, 1884, 657; Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xxiv, 1896, 191, 
737.—WHITEHEAD, Ibis, 1885, 41 (Corsica).—Dixon, Ibis, 1885, 85 (St. 
Kilda).—Rerp, Ibis, 1885, 252 (Morocco).—Yrsury, Ibis, 1886, 20 (Aden, 
occasional).—Buckuizy and Harvisr-Brown, Vertebr. Faun. Outer Hebrides, 
1888, 141 (resident); Vertebr. Fauna Orkney Is., 1891, 201 (resident); Vertebr. 
Fauna Argyll and Inner Hebrides, 1892, 163.—Barnezs, Ibis, 1893, 169, 181 
(Aden).—Buagg, Ibis, 1893, 355 (Shetland Islands; breeding habits).—Prar- 
son and Bipwe.t, Ibis, 1894, 233 (Norway, breeding).—Poyntine, Eggs 
Brit. Birds, pt. i, 1895, 39, pl. 10.—Prarson, Ibis, 1896, 211 (Russian Lap- 
land); 1898, 198 (Dolga Bay, Waigats, and Cape Greben, n. e. Russia).— 
Pornam, Ibis, 1897, 102 (Yenesei River, Siberia; descr. eggs); 1898, 572 
(Yenesei River).—Grant, Novit. Zool., vii, 1900, 268 (s. Arabia).—Jessr, 
Ibis, 1903, 162 (Lucknow, India). 
Ch{aradrius] pluvialis KryseRuine and Buasius, Wirb. Eur., 1840, pp. 1xx, 208. 
Clharadrius] pluvialis HOLBot, Naturhist. Tidsskr., iv, 1843, 406 (Greenland).— 
Cougs, Key N. Am. Birds, 2d ed., 1884. 600. 
Charadrius aureus Mtuuer, Syst. Nat., Suppl., 1776, 118 (ex Brisson, Orn., v, 
1760, 43). 
Pluvialis aurea Scuarrrer, Mus. Orn., 1789, 48.—Macaituivray, Man. Brit. Orn., 
li, 1842, 49; Hist. Brit. Birds, iv, 1852, 94. 
Charadrius auratus Sucxow, Naturg. der Thiere, ii, 1801, 1592 (based on C. aprica- 
' rius Linnzeus, etc.).—Mryer and Wor, Taschenb., ii, 1810, 318.—BreuM, 
Vég. Deutschl., 1831, 542.—Naumann, Vég. Deutschl., vii, 1834, 138, pl. 
173.—ScHLEGEL, Vog. Nederl., 1854, pl. 211.—Ciarxe (W. E.), Zoologist, 
1890 (Jan Mayen Land). 
Charadrius altifrons Brena, Vég. Deutschl., 1831, 542 (Faroe Islands; Greenland; 
- Germany). 
PLUVIALIS DOMINICUS DOMINICUS (Miiller). 
AMERICAN GOLDEN PLOVER. 
Similar to P. apricarius, but smaller (except bill and feet) and with 
axillars and under wing-coverts brownish gray or grayish brown 
instead of white. 
Adulis in breeding plumage (sexes alike).—Upper parts brownish 
black, thickly marked with small roundish and irregular spots of 
golden yellow, interspersed with fewer similar markings of grayish 
white, the upper tail-coverts barred rather than spotted with yellow; 
tail dusky, irregularly barred with grayish-white or pale gray and 
yellowish; alula, primary coverts and primaries dusky or blackish, 
the last with shafts white in middle portion, the white sometimes 
extending to adjacent portion of the webs, especially on proximal 
quills; sides of head, including entire loral and auricular regions, 
chin, throat, chest, breast, and abdomen uniform black, with a faint 
bronzy gloss in certain lights; forehead, superciliary region, sides of 
neck and chest, under tail-coverts, and thighs white; axillars and 
under wing-coverts brownish gray; bill black; iris dark brown; legs 
and feet grayish black. 
