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GOLDEN PLOVER. 
Cuiass II. 
GENUS VII. PLOVER. 
BILt strait, not longer than the head. 
Nostris linear. 
Tors: wants the hind toe. 
1. GoLDEN. Charadrius pluvialis. Ch. cor- 
Descrip- 
TION. 
pore nigro yiridique macu- 
lato subtus albido, pedibus 
cinereis. Lath. Ind. 
740. id. Syn. v. 193. id. 
Sup. i. 252. 
Le Pluvier Guillemot. .Belon 
av. 260. ; 
Pluvialis. Gesner av. '714. 
Pivier. Aldr. av. iii. 206. 
Wil. orn. 308. 
Rai Syn. av. 111. 
Brachhennl. Kram. 354. 
Rechter Brachvogel. Frisch, 
il. 217. 
orn. 
Charadrius Pluvialis. Gin. Lin. 
688. 
Dalekarlis Akerhona, Lappis 
Hutti. Faun. Suec. sp. 190- 
Pluvialis aurea, le Pluvier doré. 
Brisson av. v. 43. Tab. 4. 
Jig. 1. Hist. @ois. viii. 81. 
Pl. Enl. 904. 
Piviero verde. Zinan. 102. 
Norvegis Akerloe, Cimbris 
Brok-Fugl. Brunnich, 187- 
Br. Zool. 128. Arct. Zool. ii. 
190. 
Tuis elegant species is often found on our 
moors and heaths, in the winter time, in small 
flocks. 
Its weight is nine ounces; its length 
eleven inches ; its breadth twenty-four. The bill 
is short and black; the feathers on the head, 
back, and coverts of the wings, are black, beau- 
tifully spotted on each side with light yellowish — 
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