CHARADRIUS fulvus, 
(THE ASIATIC GOLDEN PLOVER.) 
Charadrius fulvus, Gmel. Syst. Nat. i. p. 687 (1788); Sharpe & Dresser, B. of Eur. pt. 9 
(1871); Swinhoe, P. Z. S. 1871, p. 403; Holdsw. P. Z. S. 1872, p. 470; Hume, Str. 
Feath. 1873, pp. 228, 462, et 1874, p. 287, et 1875, p. 179, et 1876, p. 463, et 1878 
(B. of Tenass.), p. 455, et 1878, vii. p. 482, et 1879 (List B. of Inch), p. 112; Buller, 
B. of New Zealand, p. 202 (1873) ; Legge, Ibis, 1874, p. 27, et 1875, p. 400 ; Salvadori, 
Ucc. di Born. p. 313 (1874); Hume, Nests and Eggs, iii. p. 570 (1875); Butler & 
Hume, Str. Feath. 1876, p. 11 ; Armstrong, t. c. p. 339 ; Ball, ibid. 1878, vii. p. 226 ; 
Seebohm, Ibis, 1879, p. 153. 
Charadrius xanthocheilus, Wagler, Gould, B. of Austr. vi. pi. 13 (1848). 
Charadrius longipes, Temm. apucl Bonap. Rev. Grit. p. 180 (1850); Jerdon, B. of Inch iii. 
p. 636 (1864). 
Charadrius joluvialis, Linn., Sykes, P. Z. S. 1832, p. 166. 
Charadrius virginicus, Bechst., Blyth, Cat. B. Mus. A. S. B. p. 262 (1849); Kelaart, Prodromus, 
Cat. p. 132 (1852); Layard, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 1854, xiv. p. 109. 
The Marbled Plover, Kelaart; Chnipe, Dutch in Ceylon; Sneppy , Portuguese in Ceylon; 
Trull, Java (Horsf.) ; Cheruling, Sumatra (Raffles); Sintar, Borneo (Mottley) ; Kotan, 
Tamils in Ceylon ; Chota battan, Hind. (Jerclon). 
Sana watuwa, also Oliya, Malia oliya, Sinhalese. 
Adult male and female (Ceylon). Length 9-3 to 10'0 inches ; wing 6-2 to 6*75; tail 2-3 to 2-6; tarsus 1-6 to 1-85; 
middle toe and claw 1*2 to 1-25 ; bill to gape 1'05 to 1-1. 
Male (Eastern Bengal). “Wing 6-8 inches ; tarsus 1*66; weight 4 - 87 oz.” ( Ci-ipps .) 
Winter plumage (Ceylon). Iris dark brown; bill blackish, gape and base beneath yellowish, in some blackish leaden 
with the entire base pale ; eyelid olive-brown ; legs and feet plumbeous, varying in depth of colour. 
Top of the head, back, rump, and longer scapulars dull black, paling on the hind neck, wing-coverts, and tail to brown, 
the greater coverts being lighter than the rest ; the feathers of the head have broad lateral margins of golden 
yellow, and those of the back, rump, and scapulars lateral and double terminal spots of the same; the paler 
portions are similarly spotted with a lighter hue, those on the wing-coverts and tail being whitish ; greater 
coverts and lateral tail-feathers tipped and edged with white ; quills blackish brown, narrowly tipped, as are the 
primary-coverts, with white ; the central portion of the shafts white ; forehead, face, and throat whitish, paling 
into pure white on the breast and belly ; the face, fore neck, and chest with dark centres to the feathers, and the 
flanks barred with the same hue : on the chest the brown centres are broadest, imparting a dark appearance to it ; 
axillary plume dark grey, lateral under tail-coverts with brown marginal spots. 
Breeding-plumage (Yenesay river). Wing 6*3 inches; tarsus 1*7; bill to gape M. Under surface from the vent to 
the chin black, covering the ear-coverts and entire face, and passing round the eye and over the lores across the 
base of the forehead for about inch from the bill ; flank-feathers white, barred with black, and the upper series, 
next the chest, tinged in places with yellow ; the head, occiput, back, and scapulars blacker than in winter 
plumage, and the spottings of a brighter golden yellow, and many of the tips of the feathers whitish ; across the 
forehead, just above the black, is a broad band of white, passing over the eye and above the ear-coverts down the 
side of the neck to the flanks ; the dark portions of the wing-coverts and tertials are black and the markings 
yellower than in winter ; under tail-coverts white, the shorter feathers patched with black, and the lateral feathers 
