. An illustrated manual of British birds . rd, although it may be found on the neighbouring lagoons orbackwaters. The adult has the forehead and a streak behind the eye white ;fore-crown banded with black ; lores, crown, nape and upper partsumber-brown, with rufous margins to some of the long secondaries ;alar bar and portions of the quills white ; rump, tail-coverts, andbasal portion of the long tail-feathers rufous, the subterminal por-tions of the latter being barred with black and tipped with white;throat and under parts white, with two black bands across the chest;bill black; legs yellowi
. An illustrated manual of British birds . rd, although it may be found on the neighbouring lagoons orbackwaters. The adult has the forehead and a streak behind the eye white ;fore-crown banded with black ; lores, crown, nape and upper partsumber-brown, with rufous margins to some of the long secondaries ;alar bar and portions of the quills white ; rump, tail-coverts, andbasal portion of the long tail-feathers rufous, the subterminal por-tions of the latter being barred with black and tipped with white;throat and under parts white, with two black bands across the chest;bill black; legs yellowish-grey. Length 9*5 : wing 65 in. Thesexes are alike in plumage ; the young are more conspicuouslymarked with pale rufous on the upper parts. The characteristics ofthe Killdeer as compared with the Ringed Plover are its larger sizeand proportionally longer tail and legs, the latter giving it a verygraceful appearance. For many of the above particulars I am indebted to that excellentwork The Water-birds of North America. 531. THE GOLDEN PLOVER. Charadrius pluvialis, LinnDsus. The Golden Plover is most plentifully and generally distributed inthe British Islands on its migrations and during the colder monthsof the year ; the autumnal passage southward opening with a fewblack-breasted birds early in August, though the large flocks ofyoung seldom arrive till the end of .September, and are followedby the adults from October to November. A return northward isnoticed in March, when the birds which have their breeding-placeson our moorlands retire from the coasts which they have fre-quented during the winter ; but for long after these have beenengaged in the task of incubation, flocks from the south continueto pass upward ; the plumage of the later arrivals being, as a rule,far richer in colour than that of our home-keeping nest sparingly on the high ground in Devon and Somerset,more plentifully in Ereconshire with other counties of Wales and itsmarches,
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