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CHARADRIUS FULVUS. 
lie writes, “ to approach, except in a high wind, when they are very tame ; and a large number may be shot at 
once as they rise. When disturbed they usually perch in some bare, stony spot.” 
Nidifi cation. — Mr. Seebohm found this Golden Plover breeding on the Yenesay, in lat. 6iH°, in the early 
part of July, and took its eggs on the 13th of that month. It nests on the wide-spreading tundras of that 
region, which are covered chiefly with moss and lichen, “ sprinkled with patches of bare pebbly ground, and 
interspersed with hummocky plains, where ground-fruits and gay flowers were growing.” The nest was a 
“ mere hollow in the ground upon a piece of turfy land, overgrown with moss and lichen, and was lined with 
broken stalks of reindeer moss.” 
In a series of two clutches of four before me, the only eggs extant of this species, and for an examination 
of which I am indebted to my friend Mr. Seebohm, one set are light clay-buff and the other very pale buff 
with an exceedingly faint greenish tinge in them. The former are richly marked with dark sepia, in the form 
of large straggly-edged blotches collected in a tolerably well-marked ring round the large end, with numerous 
large blotches extending quite round the small end ; one specimen is characterized by not a few streaky marks 
and short lines, chiefly at the small end. The pale clutch are marked with sepia-black clouds at the large end, 
and the same very dark blots towards the small end, under which are a few specks of bluish grey. In shape 
they are pyriform, but not much compressed at the point ; the obtuse ends are rather flattened. The first clutch 
vary in size from 1'89 to 1'91 inch, by from 1*27 to 1‘28; the second from 1-89 to 1'92, by from 1'27 tol'32. 
Genus vEGIA LITIS. 
Bill as in Charadrius, varying in robustness. Wings long, reaching to the end of the tail, 
with the tertials nearly equal to the primaries. Tail short and cuneate. Legs and feet slender ; 
the tarsus longer in proportion to the toes than in the last ; hind toe wanting. 
Of small size, but stout form. The change to summer plumage chiefly in the head and neck. 
