. The geographical distribution of the family Charadriidae, or, The plovers, sandpipers, snipes, and their allies . Shore birds. 98 CHAEADRIUS. Variations. ALTHOUGH Brelim subdivided the Golden Plover into four species, there seems to be no evidence of the existence of any local races of this bird. Few species vary so little. Synonymy. Charadrius apricarius, Linneus, Syst. Nat. i. p. 150 (1758); Bechstein, Naturff. Deutschl. iii. p. 203 (1793). Pluvialis aurea, Brisson, Orn. v. p. 43 (1760) ; Macgillivray, Hist. Brit. B. iv. p. 94 (1852). Charadrius pluvialis, Linneus, Syst. Nat. i. p. 254 (17
. The geographical distribution of the family Charadriidae, or, The plovers, sandpipers, snipes, and their allies . Shore birds. 98 CHAEADRIUS. Variations. ALTHOUGH Brelim subdivided the Golden Plover into four species, there seems to be no evidence of the existence of any local races of this bird. Few species vary so little. Synonymy. Charadrius apricarius, Linneus, Syst. Nat. i. p. 150 (1758); Bechstein, Naturff. Deutschl. iii. p. 203 (1793). Pluvialis aurea, Brisson, Orn. v. p. 43 (1760) ; Macgillivray, Hist. Brit. B. iv. p. 94 (1852). Charadrius pluvialis, Linneus, Syst. Nat. i. p. 254 (1766). Charadrius aureus (Briss.), Miiller, Natursyst. Suppl. p. 118 (1776). Charadrius auratus, Suckow, Naturg. der Thiere, ii. p. 159^ (1801). Pluvialis apricarius {Linn.), Bonap. Cat. Met. dec. Eur. p. 57 (1842). Literature. Plates.—Gould, Birds of Great Brit. iv. pis. 38, 39; Dresser, Birds of Europe, vii. pi. 515. fig. 1, and pi. 518. fig. 1. Habits.—Seebohm, British Birds, iii. p. 35. Eggs.—Seebohm, British Birds, pi. 25. figs. 1, 2, 3. Specific cha- racters. Geographi- cal distribu- tion. The Golden Plover is easily diagnosed by two characters : all the tail-feathers hatred, awillaries white. The Golden Plover is very local in England during the breeding-season, south of Derbyshire. It is said to breed in the extreme south-west of England and in several localities in Wales, but its true home is on the moors and mountains of the north. Prom the Grouse-moors of Derbyshire northwards to the Orkney and Shetland Islands it is more or less abundant during summer. In winter it is more widely dispersed, frequenting all the coasts and many of the inland dis- tricts. In Ireland it is generally distri- buted, breeding on the moors and high lands. The chief breeding-places of the Golden Plover are the fjelds of Norway and the tundras of Russia and Siberia as far east as the valley of the Yenesay. It also breeds sparingly on similar ground as far south as the moors of Holland, Be
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