. Key to North American birds; containing a concise account of every species of living and fossil bird at present known from the continent north of the Mexican and United States boundary. Illustrated by 6 steel plates and upwards of 250 woodcuts. Birds. 244 CHARADEIID^, PLOVER. GEN. 191, 192. great flocks in the fall, a well-known and highly-rated game bird. It is very near the European species, but seems distinct; the axillars are gray, not white. It appears to be a variety of the Asiatic; rather larger and with shorter toes. Wils., vii, 71, pi. 59, f. 5; Nutt., ii, 16; Aud., v, 203, pi. 316;
. Key to North American birds; containing a concise account of every species of living and fossil bird at present known from the continent north of the Mexican and United States boundary. Illustrated by 6 steel plates and upwards of 250 woodcuts. Birds. 244 CHARADEIID^, PLOVER. GEN. 191, 192. great flocks in the fall, a well-known and highly-rated game bird. It is very near the European species, but seems distinct; the axillars are gray, not white. It appears to be a variety of the Asiatic; rather larger and with shorter toes. Wils., vii, 71, pi. 59, f. 5; Nutt., ii, 16; Aud., v, 203, pi. 316; Cass, in Bd., 690 fulvus var. virginicus. ,H \. 191-2. Genus JEGIALITIS Boie. *^'^ Plumage not speckled ; below, white; head and neck with black bands in the breeding season. /^ * Tarsus about half as long again as the middle toe. (yUgialitis.) Klldeer Plover. Eump aud upper tail coverts tawny or orange-brown, most of the tail feathers white at base and tip, sufi"ased with orange-brown in a part of their length, and with 1-3 black bars ; secondaries mostly white, and jjrimaries with a white space ; forehead white ; a black bar across the crown, and two broad black bands on the neck and breast; bill black; feet pale grayish-blue. 9-10; wing 6 or more; tail 3J, much rounded; tarsus about 1^. North America, very abundant, especially on the Plains; breeds 'anywhere, but rarely in New Eng- FiG. 1515. Kiideer Plover. ];xik1 ; name derived from its pecu- liar notes. Wils., vii, 73, pi. 59 ; Ndtt., ii, 22; Aud., v, 207, pi. 317 ; Cass, in Bd., 692 vociferus. Wilson's Plover. Pale ashy-brown, merging into fulvous on the najje ; a black bar on the crown, and a broad black pectoral belt, grayish-brown in the 9 and young ; no bright ring round eye ; legs flesh-colored ; bill black, extremely large and stout, nearly as long as the head; 7-8 ; wing 4^-5 ; tail 2, nearly square. Seacoast of S. Athmtic and Gulf States, common; N. to the middle districts, and probably to New England; also
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