GOLDEN PLOVER. 
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the neck, white ; fore part of the crown, and auriculars 
from the hill backwards, blackish olive ; eyelids, bright 
Scarlet ; eye, very large and of a full black ; from the 
centre of the eye backwards, a stripe of white; round 
the lower part of tlie neck is a lu-oad baud of black ; 
below that, a baud of white, succeeded by another 
rounding band or crescent of black ; rest of the lower 
parts, pure white; crown and hind liead, light olive 
brown ; back, scapulars, and wing-coverts, olive brown, 
skirted witli brownish yellow; primary quills, black, 
streaked across the middle with white ; bastard wing 
tipt with white; greater coverts, broadly tipt with 
white; rump and tail-coverts, orange; tail, tapering, 
dull orange, crossed near the end n ith a broad bar of 
black, and tipt with orange, the two middle feathers 
near an inch longer than the adjoining ones, legs and 
feet, a pale light clay colour. The tertials, as usual in 
this tribe, are very long, reaching nearly to the tips of 
the primaries; exterior toe joined by a membrane to 
the middle one, as far as the first joint. 
197. CUAIUDRIVS TLVVIALIS, LINNiEBS AITD WILSON. 
GOLDEN I'LOVEE. 
WILSON, PLATE LIX. FIG. V. EDINBURGH COLLEGE MUSEUM. 
This beautiful species visits the sea coast of New 
LOrk and New .Jersey in spring and autumn ; but docs 
Rot, as tar as I cau discov’er, breed in any part of the 
nited States. They are most frequently met with 
in tile months of September and October; soon after 
disappear. The young birds of the great 
ac -bellied plover are sometimes mistaken for this 
species. Hence the reason why Mr I’ennant remarks 
It TY"” '■*“'ioty of the golden plover, with 
black breasts, which he supposed to be the young.* 
the golden jilovcr is common in the northern parts 
o Jiurope. It breeds on high aud heathy mountains, 
be female lays four eggs, of a pale olive colour, v'arie- 
* Arctic Zoology^ p. 484. 
