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CHAKADEIUS FULVUS. 



(EASTERN GOLDEN PLOVER.) 



Fulvous Plover, Lath. Gen. Syn. iii. p. 211 (1785). 



Characlrius fulvus, Gm. Syst. Nat. i. p. 687 (1788, ex Lath.). 



Charadrius pluvialis, Horsf. Trans. Linn. Soc. xiii. p. 187 (1822). 



Characlrius ccanthocheilus, Wagl. Syst. Av. Charadrius, sp. 36 (1827, ex Lath.). 



Charadrius taitensis, Less. Man. d'Orn. ii. p. 321 (1828). 



Charadrius virginianus, Jard. & Selby, 111. Orn. ii. pi. lxxxv. (c. 1830). 



Charadrius glaucopus, Forst. Descr. Anim. p. 176 (1844). 



Charadrius virginicus, Blyth, Cat. B. Mus. As. Soc. Beng. p. 262 (1849, nee Borkh.). 



"Pluvialis longipes, Temm.," Bonap. C. R. 1856, p. 417. 



Pluvialis ccantliocheilus, id. torn. cit. p. 417. 



Pluvialis taitensis, id. torn. cit. p. 417. 



Pluvialis fulvus, id. torn. cit. p. 417. 



Charadrius auratus, Schrenck, Reisen Amurl. V6g. p. 410 (1860). 



Figurw notabiles. 



Jard. & Selby, 111. of Orn. ii. pi. xxxv. (s. n. C. xanthocheilus) ; Temm. & Schl. Faun. Japon. 

 pi. Ixii. ; Gould, B. of Austr. vi. pi. 13. 



cf (Bstiv. supra niger, lsete aureo maculatus, pileo nigricantiore : scapularibus et tectricibus alarum fulvescente 

 et albido maculatis : ala, spuria brunnea late albo terminata : remigibus brunneis, scapis plerumque 

 albis, ad basin et versus apicem brunneis : secundariis conspicue aureo vel fulvescenti-brunneo extiis 

 maculatis, ala subtus grisescente : rectricibus brunneis, albo terminatis, pennis exterioribus albo irre- 

 gulariter transfasciatis, pennis centralibus fuscescente fasciatis : fronte lata et supercilio distineto cum 

 collo laterali toto pure albis : linea, angusta frontali, loris, facie laterali et corpore subtus nigerrimis : 

 corporis lateribus et bypocbondriis albis nigro variis, pectore laterali aureo lavato : subcaudalibus albis, 

 nigro notatis : subalaribus fumoso-albidis : plumis axillaribus omnino fumosis, anguste albo terminatis : 

 rostro nigro : pedibus plumbeis : iride fusca. 



Ptil. Mem. similis ptilosi sestivse, sed obscurior, et nigredine pectoris absente. 



Adult male in summer plumage. Upper surface of the body black, especially the crown, varied all over with 

 spots and bars of bright golden colour; wing-coverts coloured like the back, but the golden spots not 

 quite so rich, and on some inclining to fulvous white, the scapulars also not quite so brightly spotted ; 

 greater and primaiy coverts brown, with a conspicuous white tip; quills brown, the shafts brown at 

 the base and at the tip, white in the middle, the secondaries much elongated, irregularly barred near 

 the tip with paler brown, and spotted with golden; upper tail-coverts obliquely barred with pale 

 greyish brown, and washed with golden; tail alternately barred with dark brown and pale smoky 

 brown, all the feathers tipped with white, and the bars on the two outer feathers nearly all white 

 instead of being smoky brown ; a broad white forehead, extending backwards over the eye and forming 



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