Golden plover. 
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and European birds, are pure white. Mr. Yarrell 
states, that eastward he has traced it through 
France and Italy to the shores of Africa, and that 
the Zoological Society have specimens from Tre- 
bizond. This range is probablo. All the Asiatic 
birds, with those of the Indian Islands and New 
Holland, agree with the American species; and 
Mr. Audubon, in his Appendix to the concluding 
volume of his interesting “ Ornithological Bio- 
graphy,” has also included the American Golden 
Plover, under the title C. marmoratus, Wagler, 
as found in the New World. In addition to the 
common bird, as stated already, all the specimens 
which have come under our own observation have 
been the latter bird ; at the same time, we have 
no reason to doubt Mr. Audubon’s well known 
accuracy. 
This beautiful Plover, in the full breeding dress, 
has the space between the eyes and the bill, cheeks, 
auriculars, throat, breast, belly, and vent, of a deep 
velvetty-black ; the flanks and under tail-coverts 
white, shaded with pale yellow ; the forehead and 
streak above the eyes, nearly pure white ; the 
ground colour of the crown, back, scapulars, and 
long tertials, very deep clove-brown, with purplish 
reflections of a paler shade upon the back of the 
neck, and having each feather cut into with small 
triangular spots of king’s-yellow ; on the nape the 
centres of the feathers only are dark, leaving the 
whole margins yellow, which lightens or renders 
more yellow the general tint of this part ; and, on 
