. North American shore birds; a history of the snipes, sandpipers, plovers and their allies, inhabiting the beaches and marshes of the Atlantic and Pacific coasts, the prairies and the shores of the inland lakes and rivers of the North American continent . nisei valley an allied species, thePacific Golden Plover, breeds. CHA RA DRIUS A PRICARIUS. Habitat.—Europe, in winter to Africa; Eastern Greenland. Breedingin Northern parts of Old World from the Atlantic Coast to the valley ofthe Yenisei in Siberia. Adult Male in Siaiiiiitr.—Top of head and entire upper parts, black,spotted all over with b
. North American shore birds; a history of the snipes, sandpipers, plovers and their allies, inhabiting the beaches and marshes of the Atlantic and Pacific coasts, the prairies and the shores of the inland lakes and rivers of the North American continent . nisei valley an allied species, thePacific Golden Plover, breeds. CHA RA DRIUS A PRICARIUS. Habitat.—Europe, in winter to Africa; Eastern Greenland. Breedingin Northern parts of Old World from the Atlantic Coast to the valley ofthe Yenisei in Siberia. Adult Male in Siaiiiiitr.—Top of head and entire upper parts, black,spotted all over with bright yellow, or golden, and white; wing-coverts,dusky brown, spotted sparingly with yellow and white, the latter mostconspicuous; primaries, rufous brown, with white shafts ; upper tail-coverts,black, irregularly barred with gold; tail, dark grayish brown, barred withwhite, and a few tinges of yellow; line across forehead, passing over theeyes and extending down the sides of neck, widening as it goes, until iiforms a broad patch on side of breast, and includes the flanks, wliite, bor-dered on breast and flanks with black, spotted with gold ; sides of head nn<lneck, throat, jugulum, middle of breast, and under parts, jet black ; under 168 13. EUROPEAN GOLDEN PLOVER. 169 tail-coverts, mostly white; axillary plumes, white; bill, black ; legs andfeet, bluish gray. Length, lo inches; culmen, i ; wing, 7 ; tarsus, i^. Adult in Winter.—Upper parts as in summer, the gold spots varying inamount among individuals; under parts, white; lower part of neck andchest mottled with grajish brown and gold, the latter most conspicuous onthe sides; under wing-coverts, white, slightly mottled with brown. AMERICAN GOLDEN PLOVER. T N the United States the Golden Plover or Green-back*^ is only a migrant, passing in greater or less num-bers in spring and autumn on the way to and from itsremote northern breeding grounds. It goes mostlyby the seacoast, or if the weather is favorable, far outat s
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