Balabac (Steere, Steere Exp.); Bantayan (McGregor); Basilan (McGregor); Batan (McGregor); Bohol (Everett); Calamianes (Bourns & Worcester); Calayan (McGregor); Cebu (Everett, McGregor); Cuyo (McGregor); Fuga (McGregor); Leyte (Everett); Lubang (McGregor); Luzon (Cuming, Meyer, Everett, Heriot, Whitehead, McGregor); Masbate (Bourns & Worcester, McGregor); Mindanao (Murray, Everett, Steere Exp., Bourns & Worcester, Celestino); Mindoro (McGregor); Negros (Layard, Steere Exp., Bourns & Worcester, Keay); Palawan (Platen, Whitehead, Steere Exp., Bourns & Worcester, White); Sibay (McGregor & Worcester); Sibuyan (Bourns & Worcester); Siquijor (Steere Exp., Bourns & Worcester, Celestino); Sulu (Mearns); Ticao (McGregor). Northern Asia and Alaskan coasts of Bering Sea, south in winter to Australia and Polynesia. "Male and female in summer.--Forehead white, continued back over each eye as a broad supercilium and extending down the sides of neck; whole upper plumage black, each feather with large marginal yellow spots on both webs, the spots on the wing-coverts tending to white; primary-coverts and the greater series brown, tipped and margined with white; primaries brown, the central portion of the shaft whitish; secondaries brown tipped with whitish; tail blackish, irregularly barred with white; chin, throat, fore neck, breast, and abdomen black; vent and flanks black mottled with white; under tail-coverts white; axillars smoky brown with white tips. "Male and female in winter.--Upper plumage black, the feathers margined with yellow; wing-coverts margined with dull white; quills and tail much as in summer; forehead and sides of head fulvous, the latter part streaked with brown; chin and upper throat fulvous-white; lower throat, fore neck, and feathers under cheeks and ear-coverts rather bright fulvous with minute streaks of brown; breast grayish, the feathers broadly margined with fulvous; remainder of lower plumage pale buffy white; sides of body more or less marked and fringed with fulvous; axillars smoky brown, tipped with white as in summer. Bill dark brown; iris dark hazel-brown; legs plumbeous; claws horn-color. Length, 254; tail, 63; wing, 160; tarsus, 46; bill from gape, 28. The sexes are of about the same size. "The golden plover frequents waste ground, grassy plains, and wet paddy-fields, and also the edges of rivers, and is generally met with in flocks of considerable size. It breeds in China, and also it is said in some parts of India, laying four eggs in a hollow lined with a few blades of grass. The eggs are yellowish blotched with blackish sepia." (Oates.) The Eastern golden plover is found in the Philippines on migration and is then usually in its gray winter dress but specimens have been taken with numbers of black feathers from the summer plumage. Genus OCHTHODROMUS Reichenbach, 1852.