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GOLDEN PLOVER. 



it very difficult to separate them with accuracy ; 

 and as many of the species described by Latham 

 are noticed in so brief a manner, and without any 

 reference to plates, I am obliged to omit them, 

 being fearful of creating more confusion than 

 there is at present in this puzzling genus. 



A. ALiE mutic(E, 

 A. Wings spurless. 

 a. Capite caruncula non instrudd,* 

 a. Head not furnished with a wattle. 



GOLDEN PLOVER. 



(Charadrius pluvialis.) 



Ch. corpore nigro viridique maculato subtus albido, pectore griseo 

 maculis nigricantibuSy rostro pedibusque cinereis. 



Plover with the body spotted with black and green ; beneath 

 whitish J the breast grey, with dusky spots ^ the beak and 

 feet grey. 



Charadrius pluvialis. Linn. Si/st. Nat. 1. 254. 7» — Linn. Faun. 



Suec. igo. — Gmel. Si/st. Nat. 1. 688. — Briss. Orn. 5. 43. 1. 



pi. 4./. l.—Latk. Ind. Orn. 2. 740. l.-^Leach. Cat. Brit. 



Mus. p. 28. 

 Pluvialis viridis. Raii. Syn. 111. a. 2. 

 Pluvialis aurea minor. Briss. Orn. 5. 47. 2. 

 Le Pluvier dore. Buf. Ois. 8. Si.—Birff: PL Enl. QOA.— Temm. 



Man. d'Orn. 324. 

 Green Plover. Loxki. Faun, Oread, p. 88. 



