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BIRDS OF BRITISH BURMAH. 
Family CHARADRIIDiE. 
Genus CHARADEIUS, Linn, 
712. CHARADRIUS FULVUS. 
THE EASTERN GOLDEN PLOVER. 
Charadrius fulvus, Gm. Syst. Nat. i. p. 687 ; Dresser, Birds Eur. vii. p. 443^ pi. ; 
Hume, 8. F. i. p. 228, ii. p. 287 ; id. Nests and Eggs, p. 570 ; id. S. F. iii. p. 179 ; 
Bl. B. Burm. p. 153 ; Salvad. Ucc. Born. p. 313 ; Armstrong, S. F. iv. p. 339 ; 
Wardlaw Ramsay, Ibis, 1877, p. 468 ; David et Oust. Ois, Chine, p. 424 ; Anders. 
Yunnan Exped. p. 676 ; Hume Sf Dai\ S. F. vi. p. 455 ; Hume, 8. F. vii. p. 482, 
viii. p. 112 ; 8cully, 8. F. yiii. p. 350 ; Legge, Birds Ceylon, p. 934 ; Bingham, 8. F. 
ix. p. 197 ; Oates, 8. F. x, p. 237 ; KelJiam, Ibis, 1882, p. 8. Charadrius 
longipes, Te^nm., Bonap. Rev. Crit. 1850, p. 180 j Jerd. B. Ind.ii. p. 636. 
Pluvialis longipes, Temm., Bonap. Comptes Rend. 1856, pt. ii. p. 417. 
Description. — Male and female in summer. Forehead white,, continued 
back over each eye as a broad supercilium extending down the sides of the 
neck ; the whole upper plumage blacky each feather with large marginal 
yellow spots on both webs^ the spots on the wing-coverts tending to white ; 
primary- coverts and the greater series brown^ tipped and margined with 
white ; primaries brown^ the central portion of the shaft whitish ; secon- 
daries brown tipped with whitish ; tail blackish, irregularly barred with 
white ; chin, throat, fore neck, breast and abdomen black ; vent and flanks 
black mottled with white ; under tail-coverts white ; axillaries smoky 
brown with white tips. 
Male and female in winter. The upper plumage is black, the feathers 
margined with yellow ; the wing-coverts margined with dull white ; the 
quills and tail much as in summer; forehead and sides of the head fulvous, 
the latter part streaked with brown ; chin and upper throat fulvous-white ; 
lower throat, fore neck, and feathers under the cheeks and ear-coverts 
rather bright fulvous with minute streaks of brown; breast greyish, the 
feathers broadly margined with fulvous ; remainder of lower plumage pale 
buflpy white ; the sides of the body more or less marked and fringed with 
fulvous ; axillaries smoky brown, tipped with white as in summer. 
No description can be made comprehensive enough to include all the 
variations of plumage this bird is liable to in winter. The above descrip- 
tion applies to the majority of birds shot from November to March ; but 
birds in nearly full summer plumage may occasionally be obtained in 
Burmah late in the spring and early in the autumn. 
Bill dark brown; iris dark hazel-brown; legs plumbeous ; claws horn- 
colour. 
