GOLDEN PLOVER. 
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the neck, white ; fore part of the crown, and auriculars 
from the bill 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 the neck is a broad band of black ; 
below that, a band of white, succeeded by another 
rounding band or crescent of black ; rest of the lower 
parts, pure white; crown and hind head, light olive 
brown ; back, scapulars, and wing-coverts, olive brown, 
skirted with 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 with 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. CHARABR1US PLUVIALIS , LINNAEUS AND WILSON. 
GOLDEN PLOVER. 
WILSON, PLATE LIX. FIG. V. EDINBURGH COLLEGE MUSEUM. 
This beautiful species visits the sea coast of New 
York and New Jersey in spring and autumn ; but does 
not, as far as I can discover, breed in any part of the 
United States. They are most frequently met with 
in the months of September and October; soon after 
which they disappear. The young birds of the great 
black-bellied plover are sometimes mistaken for this 
species. Hence the reason why Mr Pennant remarks 
his having seen a variety of the golden plover, with 
black breasts, which he supposed to be the young.* 
The golden plover is common in the northern parts 
of Europe. It breeds on high and heathy mountains. 
The female lays four eggs, of a pale olive colour, varie- 
* Arctic Zoology , p. 484. 
