EASTERN GOLDEN PLOVER. 
Charadrius pluvialis orientalis Temminck et Schlegel, Fauna Japonica, p. 104, pi. Lxn., 
1849 (Japan). 
Charadrius virginianus Hartlaub, Arch, fur Nat. 1852, p. 134 (Tahiti). 
Charadrius auratus longipes Schlegel, Vogel von Nederl., p. 411, 1854. 
Pluvialis fulvus Bonaparte, Comptes Rendus Sci. (Paris), Vol. XLIII., p. 417, 1856. 
Pluvialis longipes id., ih. 
Pluvialis xanthocheilus id., ih. 
? Pluvialis taitensis id., ih. 
Charadrius mongolicus Blakiston, Ibis 1862, p. 330 (c/. Ibis 1863, p. 100). 
Charadrius longipes id., ih., p. 71 ; ? Swinhoe, ih., 1863, p. 404 ; Ramsay, Proc. Linn. Soc. 
N.S.W., Vol. I., p. 76, 1876 ; id., ih., Vol. II., p. 197, 1878. 
Charadrius orientalis Gould, Handb. Birds Austr., Vol. II., p. 225, 1865 ; Masters, 
Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., Vol. I., p. 60, 1876 ; Barnard, Pap. and Proc. Roy. Soc. 
Tasm. 1877, p. 19, 1878 (Tasmania). 
Charadrius apricarius (not Linne), Rosenberg, Malay Archipel., p. 220, 1878. 
Charadrius dominicus fulvus Ridgway, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus., Vol. III., p. 198, 1880 ; 
Stejneger, Bull. U.S. Nat. Mus., No. 29, p. 104, 1885 ; id., Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus., 
Vol. XII., p. 380, 1889 ; Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 216, 1912. 
Charadrius dominicus Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., Vol. XXIV., p. 195, 1896 (pars) ; 
Hall, Viet. Nat., Vol. XV., p. 100, 1898 ; Hutton, Trans. New Zeal. Inst. 1900, 
p, 256, 1901 ; Campbell, Nests and Eggs Austr. Birds, p. 788, 1901 ; Legge, Emu, 
Vol. IV., p. 104, 1905 ; HaU, Key Birds Austr., p. 81, 1906 ; Berney, Emu, Vol. VI., 
p. 112, 1907 ; Mathews, Handl, Birds Austral., p. 24, 1908 ; Littler, Handb. Birds 
Tasm., p. 128, 1910 ; Ogilvie-Grant, Ibis 1910, p. 182. 
Disteibution. Siberia (breeding) to Australia, Tasmania, and New Zealand (accidental 
to Europe). 
Adult male, in hreeding-plumage. Crown of head, entire back, and scapulars black, thickly 
spangled with golden-buff, becoming paler and inclining to brown and white on 
the upper wing-coverts ; greater coverts brown, edged with white ; bastard\wing 
brown, small coverts on the margin of the wing dark brown tipped with white 
hke the primary-coverts ; primary-quills dark brown, paler on the inner webs, 
and white on a portion of the shafts towards the tip ; secondaries brown, white 
at the base, the inner ones edged with white, and the innermost long feathers 
dark brown notched with golden-buff on each web, and fringed at the side with 
the same colour ; central tail-feathers barred with dark and pale brown, outer 
feathers pale brown and white ; forehead and a line over the eye white, which is 
continued down the sides of the neck and united to a small white patch on the sides 
of the upper-breast ; lores, a spot in front of each eye, cheeks, throat, middle of 
breast, and middle of abdomen black ; sides of body variegated with black, 
white and golden-buff ; axillaries and under wing-coverts pale ash-brown ; under 
tail-coverts white, the short ones tipped with black, and the long ones barred with 
black towards the tips ; bill black ; iris dark brown ; feet leaden-grey. Total 
length 243 mm. ; culmen 22, wing 166, tail 60, tarsus 44. 
Adult female, in hreeding-plumage. Similar to the adult male. The tarsi of seventeen 
Eastern birds varies from forty to forty -five millimetres. 
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