. A history of British birds, indigenous and migratory: including their organization, habits, and relation; remarks on classification and nomenclature; an account of the principal organs of birds, and observations relative to practical ornithology .. . us and translated, Pluvialis is Plover, and thus the nomen-clature is so far perfect. Is it not strange that they whomake it a Squatarola in mongrel Latin, should call it aPlover in plain English, thus giving it the same genericname that they apply to birds of what they tell us is quite adifferent genus ? In another individual,
. A history of British birds, indigenous and migratory: including their organization, habits, and relation; remarks on classification and nomenclature; an account of the principal organs of birds, and observations relative to practical ornithology .. . us and translated, Pluvialis is Plover, and thus the nomen-clature is so far perfect. Is it not strange that they whomake it a Squatarola in mongrel Latin, should call it aPlover in plain English, thus giving it the same genericname that they apply to birds of what they tell us is quite adifferent genus ? In another individual, a male, examined in Edinburgh,in January, 1841, the measurement of the digestive organs•were as follows :—Tongue ten-twelfths long; oesophagus fourinches and a half; belt of glandules ten-twelfths; stomachan inch and five-twelfths long, an inch and two-twelfths inbreadth ; intestine two feet eleven inches in length; coecathree inches and a quarter; rectum two inches. The stomach■was moderately distended with slender blades of gi-ecn ulvae,anion: which were a few small univalve shells and somebits of quartz. 94 PLUVIALIS AUREA. THE GOLDEN PLOVER. YELLOW PLOVEK. WHISTLING TLOVER, GREY PLOVER. FEAD.\ Fio. 10. Charadrius Pluvialis. Linn. Syst. Xat. I. 254. Charadrius apricarius. Linn. Syst. Xat. I. 254. Charadriua Pluvialis. Lath. Ind. Om. IL 740. Adult in winter. Charadrius apricarius. Lath. Ind, Orn. II. 742. Adult in summer. Golden Plover. Mont. Ornith. Diet. Pluvier dorc. Charadrius Pluvialis. Temm. Man. dOrn, II. 535. Charadrius Pluvialis. Green Plover. Flcm. Brit. Anim. 113. Golden Plover. Charadrius Pluvialis. .Sclb. Illustr. Brit. Ornith. II. 231. Charadrius plu\iali3. Golden Plover. Jen. Brit. Vert. An. 177. Charadrius Pluvialis. Bonap. Comp. List, 45. In itinter, the tipper parts hroicnish-hlack, sj)ottcd icithyelloWy the cheeks, neck, and fore part of the breast greyish,variegated with brown; the throat and abdomen tchifc, as arethe axillar feathers. In summer,
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