312 PLOVER. 



Pluvialis viridis, Raii, II. A. 2. Id. 190. 9. Will. 229. t. 57. 



Pluvialis aurea minor, Bris. v. 47. 2. JTd. 8vo. ii. 223. Gerin. iv. t. 573 ? 



Le Pluvier dore, Buf. viii. 81. PL enl. 904. Hist. Prov. i. 353. 



Kleiner Braach Vogel, Wirsing, t. 34. 



Der Goldregen Pfeifer, Bechst. Beutsch. iii. p. 206. Naturf. xiii. s. 218. No. 129. 



Schmid, p. 108. t. 94. 

 Piviere, Cett. Vc Sard. 257. 

 Golden or Green Plover, Gen. Syn. v. 193. Id. Sup. 252. Br. Zool. ii. No. 208. pi. 



72. Id.fol.V2S. Id. 1812. ii. p. 98. pi. 17. f. 2. Fl. Scot. i. No. 156. Russ. 



Alepp. p. 71. Arct. Zool. ii. No. 399. Will. Engl. 308. pi. 57. Sloan. Jam. 318. 



t. 269. 1. Alb. i. pi. 75. Bewick, i. pi. p. 329. Lewin,\. pi. 181. /d. pi. xxxiii. 



1. — the egg. Walcot, ii. pi. 158. Donov. ii. pi. 45. Rural Sports, ii. t. p. 456. 



P«/<. Dors. p. 16. O™. Zh'c/. (5f Supp. Amer. Ornith. vii. 71. pi. 59. FrankL 



Narr. App. p. 683. 



LENGTH ten inches. Bill one inch, dusky ; irides hazel; head 

 large; plumage dusky, spotted with greenish yellow; sides of the 

 head, neck, and sides of the body paler ; round the eye, the chin, 

 and middle of the belly dusky white; greater quills dusky; the tail 

 barred dusky and yellow; legs black.* 



The male and female are much alike. In young birds the spots 

 are not of a full yellow, but incline to grey. 



In some birds the belly is black and white, in others wholly 

 black ; this happens only in the adult, and in the breeding season. 

 In the beginning of March the belly appears mottled with black, 

 and continues to increase till May, when that part is fully so, and 

 this in both sexes ; after the time of breeding it again disappears. 



This species inhabits England the whole year, and breeds on 

 several of our unfrequented mountains; very common on those of 

 the Isle of Man, and the loftier Hebrides ;t also on the Grampian, 

 and all the heathy hills of the Islands, and Highlands of Scotland :£ 

 the eggs are generally four, of a dull greenish white, marked with 

 various sized dusky purple spots, and about the size of those of the 

 Lapwing, but more pointed ; the young run after the parents as soon 



* I have seen two specimens, with a claw in the place of a back toe. 

 t Br. Zoo). * Flor. Scot.i. 35. 



