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and as tlie female glides from her nest, if approached, even when the intruders are still 
ad a distance. She runs a certain distance, and if she succeeds in enticing the party 
away, will then take to flight. In a few instances, when the bird was surprised by a 
near approach before she left, she pretended lameness, and fluttered at their feet. 
The eggs were found in June, and some even as late as July, and quite fresh. When 
the ground was covered with newly-fallen snow the nests were more readily recog- 
nized. When approached the female usually left her position at a quick pace — 
between a run and a walk — and in no case was she known to fly up directly from 
her eggs. In one instance, where the presence of a nest was suspected, but the exact 
locality of which they were not able to discover, the party withdrew to a distance 
and watched, when the female, after resorting to various manoeuvres to hide the place, 
at last revealed it by finally settling down upon her eggs. 
The eggs of this species have a ground of various shades of drab, differing in 
several specimens, and varying from a light greenish drab to a very deep shade, 
unmixed with any other color. Others have a ground of a pale rufous-drab. All are 
marked with blotches of a deep umber, approaching to blackness. These markings 
are smaller and more scattered around the pointed end ; but are larger and become 
confluent, with intensified spots, around the obtuse apex. Their average length is 
about 1.91 inches, and their average breadth 1.31 inches. Their maximum length 
is 2 inches, their minimum 1.84 ; their breadth varies from 1.25 to 1.35 inches. 
Charadrius dominions fulvus. 
THE PACIFIC GOLDEN PLOVER. 
Charadrius fulvus, Gmf.l. S. N. I. 1788, 687. — Coues, Elliott’s Prybilof Islands, 1873, 179 (Prybilof 
Islands, Alaska). 
Charadrius fulvus, a. fulvus, Coues, Birds N. W. 1874, 449 (synonymy). 
Pluvialis fulvus, Bonap. Compt. Rend. 1856, 417. 
Charadrius dominicus fulvus, Kidgw. Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. Vol. 3, 1880, 198, 221 ; Nom. N. Am. 
B. 1881, no. 515 a. — Coues, Check List, 2d ed. 1882, no. 582. 
Charadrius xanthocheilus, Wagl. Syst. Av. 1827. — Cassin, U. S. Expl. Exp. 1848, 239. 
Charadrius tahitensis, Less. Man. II. 1828, 321. 
Charadrius giaucopsus, Forst. Descr. An. ed. Lielvt. 1844, 176. 
Charadrius lougipes, “ Temm. Mus. Lugduu.” 
Charadrius auratus orientalis, Temm. & Schleg. Fauna Jap. 1845, pi. 62. 
Charadrius auratus, Schrenck, Reise Amur. 1860, 410. 
Hab. Whole of Asia, and islands throughout the Pacific Ocean ; Prybilof Islands and coast 
of Alaska (numerous specimens in National Museum). 
Char. Similar to C. dominicus, but wing much shorter, and color much more golden, the 
upper surface being almost continuously washed with golden yellow. Average measurements : 
Wing, 6.40 ; culmen, .92 ; tarsus, 1.72; middle toe, .90. 
The only American specimens of this form of the Golden Plover, which ranges throughout the 
islands of the Pacific, besides Southern and Eastern Asia, are from the islands and coasts of Alaska. 
They are all in the winter plumage, suggesting the probability of their being mere migrants to our 
shores. The very fine specimens in the collection, obtained chiefly by Messrs. Lucien M. Turner 
and E. W. Nelson, of the U. S. Signal Service, at St. Michael’s, Norton Sound, are perfectly typical 
of the race, most of them being continuously golden yellow above, relieved only by the black 
spotting. The jugulum is also deeply tinged with this color. There are no specimens in the 
summer plumage, from any locality, in the collection, so we are unable to point out the exact 
differences from the corresponding stage of C. dominicus. 1 Altogether we have examined in this 
1 Since the above was written, the National Museum has come into possession of an adult male in 
changing plumage, from New South Wales (No. 71561, obtained from the New South Wales Museum), 
