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CHAKADKIUS PLUVIALIS. 



(GOLDEN PLOVER.) 



Charadrius pluvialis, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. p. 254 (1766). 

 Charadrius aureus, P. L. S. Mull. Syst. Nat. Suppl. p. 118 (1776). 

 Charadrius auratus, Suckow, Naturg. der Thiere, ii. p. 1592 (1801). 

 Charadrius apricarius, Brehm, Vog. Deutschl. p. 542 (1831). 

 Charadrius altifrons, Brehm, Vog. Deutschl. p. 542 (1831). 

 Pluvialis apricarius, Bonap. Cat. Met. Ucc. Eur. p. 57 (1842). 

 Pluvialis aurea, Macgill. Hist. Brit. B. iv. p. 94 (1852). 



Golden Plover, Green Plover, Yellow Plover, Whistling Plover, Grey Plover, English; 

 Feadag, Gaelic ; Pluvier dore, French ; Chorlito, Spanish ; Tarambola, Portuguese ; 

 Pluviera, Maltese ; Gold-Regenpfeifer, German ; de Goud Plevier, Dutch ; Hjeile, BroTc- 

 fugl, Danish ; Ljung-pipare, Swedish ; Brohfugl Hejlo, Norwegian ; Ejanka Sivka, 

 Russian. 



Figures notabiles. 



Gould, B. of Eur. iv. pi. 294; Yarr. Brit. B. ii. p. 385; Naum. Vog. Deutschl. vii. Taf. 173; 

 Kjserb. Orn. Dan. Afb. xx. fig. 6 ; Schl. Vog. Nederl. pi. 211 ; Sundev. Svensk. Fogl. 

 pi. xxxvi. figs. 2, 3 ; Fritsch, Vog. Eur. Taf. xxxvii. figs. 1, 2 ; Gould, B. of Gt. Brit, 

 part 5. 



6 mstiv. supra nigricans, ubique aurato et albido notatus : tectricibus alarum fuscescenti-brunneis, sparsius 

 aurato maculatis, et majoribus extus albido maculatis : primariarum tectricibus fuscis albo terminatis : 

 remigibus fuscis, scapis mediahter albis, primariis in.terioribus ad basin externam albis, secundariis 

 extus aurato et albo transmaculatis : tectricibus supracaudalibus aurato transfasciatis : cauda saturate 

 fusca, aurato et albo irregulariter transnotata, : fronte, macula infraoculari, supercilio lato per colli 

 latera, et corporis lateribus totis, albis, hypochondriis fusco variis : facie et corpore subtus nigerrimis : 

 pectoris superioris lateribus aurato variis : subcaudalibus laterabbus albis, mediis nigris : subalaribus 

 albis fusco maculatis : plumis axillaribus albis : rostro nigro : pedibus cinereis : iride nigricanti- 

 brunnea. 



2 cestiv. mari similis, sed nigredine pectoris paullulum brunneo mixta. 



c? Idem, similis ptilosi sestivse, sed obscurior et subtus albescens, pectore superiore fusco. 



Adult male in summer plumage. Upper surface of tbe body black, spotted all over with golden and wbite, but 

 tbe latter in a less degree, tbe nape ratber paler and less varied with black ; wing-coverts dusky brown, 

 sparingly spotted with golden and wbite, tbe greater coverts more conspicuously notched with white, 

 the primary coverts dusky brown with white tips ; quills dusky brown, the shafts white in the middle, 

 with a patch of white also visible at the outer base of the lesser primaries, the secondaries black, 

 marked with oblique golden bars ; upper tail-coverts black, irregularly barred across with golden ; tail 



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