ALWARGRIM PLOVER. 



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consider distinct, as I have never seen a specimen 

 that was captured in England, where the Golden 

 Plover is very common, and has been observed at 

 all seasons. This is the size of the last described : 

 its beak is one inch in length, and black : eyelids 

 dusky : irides brown : the plumage on the upper 

 parts of the body is black, spotted with orange t 

 at the base of the upper mandible the feathers are 

 black : the forehead, between the eyes, white, pass- 

 ing over each eye in a line down the sides of the 

 neck to the breast, where it unites to a band of the 

 same across the latter : all the fore-parts of the 

 neck, breast, and under parts of the body, are also 

 black, the band on the breast excepted : the rest 

 is spotted with white : the secondaries, quills, and 

 tail, are barred with brown and black : legs black. 

 The male has the temples black ; in the female 

 they are dusky. 



This species inhabits the most northern parts of 

 Europe, Asia, and America, beingfoundin Sweden, 

 Denmark, Greenland, Russia, Siberia, Hudson's 

 Bay, and New York. In Greenland it appears 

 early in the spring, rather sparingly, on all the 

 southern lakes, feeding upon worms and the buds 

 of the black-berried heath ; after breeding it re- 

 turns southward. Its flesh is said to be exquisite. 

 It is called in America the Large Whistling Field 

 Bird, from its note, which is very shrill. 



