. Birds of America;. Birds -- North America. 258 BIRDS OF AMERICA Plumage.—Adults in Summer: Forehead, broad stripe over and behind eye and continuing down side of neck and breast, pure white; croii'ii, hack of neck, back, and shoulders, hiackish-hi-ozcn, streaked on crown and back of neck, and each feather of rest of upper parts sharply indented all around with golden yellow; wing- coverts and secondaries, more brownish, but showing some golden-yellow spotting; primaries, plain dusky- gray darkening at tips and whitening at base, but no pronounced white areas as in the Black-breasted Plover;
. Birds of America;. Birds -- North America. 258 BIRDS OF AMERICA Plumage.—Adults in Summer: Forehead, broad stripe over and behind eye and continuing down side of neck and breast, pure white; croii'ii, hack of neck, back, and shoulders, hiackish-hi-ozcn, streaked on crown and back of neck, and each feather of rest of upper parts sharply indented all around with golden yellow; wing- coverts and secondaries, more brownish, but showing some golden-yellow spotting; primaries, plain dusky- gray darkening at tips and whitening at base, but no pronounced white areas as in the Black-breasted Plover; tail, white with brownish bars; lores, throat, side of head in front of white stripe, breast, and under parts, pure brownish-black; bill, dusky; feet, lead color ; eye, large and lustrous brown. Adults in Winter: Above, somewhat as in summer but colors less intense; more greenish-yellow and paler brown ; sides of head, neck, breast, and under parts in general, brownish or grayish- white, narrowly streaked on sides of head and throat, mottled on neck, breast, and abdomen, with dark grayish-brown; an obscure dusky stripe behind eye; bill, legs, and eye as in summer. Young : Above, dusky mottled with dull whitish spots, becoming yellow on the rump : below, ashy, deeper on lower neck and breast. Nest and Eggs.— Nest: A slight depression in the moss or ground. Eggs: 4, creamy-white to buffy- brovvn. spotted boldly with blotches of brown and black. Distribution.— North and South America; breeds from K(j(zcbue Sound along the Arctic coast to mouth of the Mackenzie, and from Melville Island, Wellington Channel, and Melville Peninsula south to northwestern Hudson Bay; winters on the pampas of Brazil and Argentina; migrates south across the Atlantic from Nova Scotia and New Brunswick; a few pass south through the Mississippi valley, and all migrate north by this route: in migration to California. Greenland, and Bermuda ; formerly abundant, now becoming rare. In the Golden Plover we
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