CHARADRIID^ : CHABADBIINJE : PLOVER. 
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the shell, with irregular blotches of brownish- black, smaller spots being more thinly distributed 
over the rest of the surface ; the markings about the great end usually confluent and wreathy ; 
a few pale markings in the %==?-=-^ ^ ^^^p^.,- - ^_ _ ^— _ 
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CHARA'DRIUS. (Gr. 
Xapadpios, charadrios, Lat. 
charadrius, a plover.) 
Golden Plovers. Char- 
acters as in Squatarola, 
but no hind toe. (This 
is the type-genus of the 
whole family. The several 
species are closely related : 
to our long known golden 
plover have lately been 
added as birds of N. A. 
both the European species 
and the Asiatic variety j 
the former from its occur- 
rence in Greenland, the 
latter in Alaska. 
Fig. 417. — Black-bellied Plover, in summer, reduced. (From Lewis.) 
U. S. birds are all C. dominiciis, — the C. virginicus of most authors.) 
Analysis of Species. 
Lining of wings ashy. 
Length 10.00-11.00 ; wing 7.00; tail 3.00 ; tarsus 1.75 dominictis 581 
Length 9.00-10 00; wing 6.50 ; tail 2.50; tarsus 1.60 fulvus 582 
Lining of wings white pluvialis 583 
C. domi'nicus. (Lat. dominicus, of St. Domingo. Fig. 418.) American Golden Plover. 
Field Plover. Bull-head Plover. Bull-head. ^ <^ ,m summer : Upper parts black, 
everywhere speckled with golden -yellow, and mostly also with white, the brighter color in excess. 
The markings of individual feathers are a tipping and one or several paired scallops. Hind neck 
less strongly marked than crown or back. Forehead, and long stripe over eye snowy-white. 
Region immediately around bill, sides of head to include eyes, and entire under parts, glossy 
brownish-black. Lining of wings, and axil- 
lars, sooty-grmj or ashy. Tail dusky grayish- 
brown, with numerous irregular pale gray bars, 
and reddish-brown shafts upper tail-coverts 
and rump like back. Primaries fuscous, black- 
ening at tips and whitening at bases of inner 
webs, though without definite white spaces ; 
shafts white for a space. Secondaries and 
many of the coverts, like the primaries, plain 
fuscous, without the golden and white fretwork 
of the back. Bill and feet black. Length 
10.00-11.00; extent 22.50; wing 7.00; tail 
3.00 ; bill 0.90 ; tibiae bare 1.00 ; tarsus 1.75 ; 
middle toe and claw 1.20. ^ , in winter, 
and young, much alike, very different from the 
^ ,^ ^, . "r „ . , , ^ breeding dress: Upper parts much as before, 
Fig. 418. — Golden Plover, in fall or winter, reduced. * , . , 
(From Nuttall,after — ?) but colors not SO pure and intense; and spot- 
ting mostly golden, with little white if any. Front and line over eye not purely white, but 
tawny, with dusky streaks. Tail lacking transverse bars, the feathers being dark grayish- 
