THE GOLDEN PLOVER. 
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to read the story of the re-discovery of the eggs of the Squa- 
tarola helveiica. 
Nest.— Practically none. A hollow, round and deep, with a 
few broken slender twigs and reindeer-moss. 
Eggs. — Four in number, and double-spotted. Mr. Seebohm 
describes them as follows “ Intermediate in colour between 
those of the Lapwing and the Golden Plover, and subject to 
variation, some being much browner, and others more olive, 
none quite as olive as typical Lapw'ing's eggs or as buff as 
tvpical ones of the Golden Plover, but the blotching is in 
every respect the same. The underlying spots are equally 
indistinct, the surface spots are generally large, especially at 
the larger end, but occasionally very small and scattered, and 
sometimes taking the form of thin streaks. They vary in 
length from I'g to 2-2 inches, and in breadth from 1-35 inch 
to I '4. Only one brood is reared in the year.” 
THE GOLDEN PLOVERS. GENUS CIIARADRIUS. 
Charadrius, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. p. 253 (1766). 
Type, C. pluvialis (Linn.). 
Like the Grey Plover, the Golden Plovers, of which there 
are two species, have a black face and black breast in sum- 
mer, but the genus Charadrius is at once distinguished from 
Squatarola by the absence of the hind-toe. 
The range of the genus is very nearly cosmopolitan, the 
species breeding in high northern latitudes, and wintering in 
all the southern continents of the globe. 
1. THE GOLDEN PLOVER. CHAR.VDRIUS PLUVIALIS. 
Charadrius pluviaHs, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. p. 254 (1766); Dresser, 
B. Eur. vii. p. 435, pi. 515, fig. i (1871); B. O. U. List 
Brit. B. p. 157 (1883) ; Saunders, ed. Yarr. Brit. B. iii. 
p. 271 (1883); Seebohm, Hist. Brit. B. iii. p. 35 (1885); 
Saunders, Man. Brit. B. p. 531 (1889); Lilford, Col. Fig. 
Brit. B. part xiii. (1890); Sharpe, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xxiv. 
p. 191. 
riuvialis aiirea, Macgill. Brit. B. iv. p. 94 (1852). 
