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In appearance it is so like our golden plover, Charadrius pluvialis, as to be hardly distinguishable from it. The birds were quite tame: all our wild birds were if anything too tame, although not shockingly so as Alexander Selkirk found them on his island the poet's, not the real Selkirk.
It is included in Professor Ansted's list, but only marked as occurring in Guernsey. There are two specimens in the Museum, both in winter plumage. Indeed, I do not know that it even remains long enough in the Channel Islands to assume, even partially, the black-breast of the breeding plumage, as it so often does in England. GOLDEN PLOVER. Charadrius pluvialis, Linnaeus. French, "Pluvier dore."
Chapman, Dr., on stridulation in Scolytus. Chapuis, Dr., on the transmission of sexual peculiarities in pigeons; on streaked Belgian pigeons. Char, male, colouring of, during the breeding season. Characters, male, developed in females; secondary sexual, transmitted through both sexes; natural, artificial, exaggeration of, by man. Charadrus hiaticula and pluvialis, sexes and young of.
It is a member of the Tabanidae family, and indeed is closely related to the Haematopota pluvialis, a brown fly which haunts the borders of woods in summer time in England. The Motuca is of a bronzed-black colour; its proboscis is formed of a bundle of horny lancets, which are shorter and broader than is usually the case in the family to which it belongs.
We then gave up the partie; it was useless to contend against Jupiter Tonans as well as Pluvialis. I opened my bedding, drank a "stiffener" of raw cognac, wrapped myself well, and at once fell asleep in the heavy rain, whilst the crew gathered under the sail.
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