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GOLDEN PLOVER. 
lower parts ; the whole are white, on the chin and 
throat nearly unspotted, on the neck and auricu- 
lars having narrow streaks of hair-brown along 
the shafts, and on the breast and upper part of the 
belly, having those continued, more broadly ex- 
panded upon the base of the feathers, and forming 
a relief to the pale tips of those lying over them ; 
the bill black; the feet and legs greyish-black. 
Two specimens, shot a few years since, by the side 
of one of the Lochmaben lochs, in the month of 
August, had the ground colour of the upper parts 
very dark, and the edging and angular spotting of 
the feathers nearly of the tint of sienna-yellow, so 
as to cause them to appear, when first taken up, to 
be the Golden Plover; the breast and belly also 
had the dark parts of the feathers much broader, 
and the whole tinted over with yellowish wood- 
brown. These were considered young birds ar- 
rived from migration ; they were very tame, and 
allowed an easy approach. A bird from the Cape 
of Good Hope, apparently identical, is very dark 
above, having the colour glossed with olive reflec- 
tions, has no white on the forehead, and very few 
light markings on the crown or centre of the back. 
The Golden Plover, Squatarola pluvialis. — 
Charadrius pluvialis, Linn., etc. — Pluvier dore, 
Temm. and French authors. — Golden or Yellow 
Plover of British authors. — This species, though 
retaining almost exactly the markings, and the 
