. The birds of eastern North America known to occur east of the nineteenth meridian ... Birds. 126 KEY TO THE BIRDS OF EASTERN NORTH AMERICA. Bill, orange lit base, the tip, black; legs, orange yellow: no black stripe from bill to eye; black breast baud, not confluent; two middle tail feathers, tipped with wllite. Eastern species not found west of Eocky Mountains. Aeyialitis meloda. Piping Plover. See No. 228. Bill, orange at base, the tip, black; legs, orange yellow; no black stripe from bill to eye; breast band, continuous and not broken in the middle; two middle tail feathers, tipped with w
. The birds of eastern North America known to occur east of the nineteenth meridian ... Birds. 126 KEY TO THE BIRDS OF EASTERN NORTH AMERICA. Bill, orange lit base, the tip, black; legs, orange yellow: no black stripe from bill to eye; black breast baud, not confluent; two middle tail feathers, tipped with wllite. Eastern species not found west of Eocky Mountains. Aeyialitis meloda. Piping Plover. See No. 228. Bill, orange at base, the tip, black; legs, orange yellow; no black stripe from bill to eye; breast band, continuous and not broken in the middle; two middle tail feathers, tipped with white. Eastern species not found west of Rocky Mountains. Aegialitis m-loda circumcincta. Belted Piping Plover. See No. Snowy Plover. Aegialitis nivosa. Bill, entirely black; legs, slate color; no black stripe from bill to eye; two middle tad leathers, not tipped with white; two outer tail feathei'S, white. Western species ranges from Texas and Kansas, west, to the Tacific Ocean. Accidental in Florida. Aeyialitis nivosa. Snowy Plover. See No. 229a, * Group 3. Wing, to inches long; toes, three, no hind toe. Breast, with two black bands; underparts, white : rurtip and upper tail coverts, orange brown. ^-Ei/iaUtis vocifeni. Killdeer Plover. See No. 225. No black band on breast; back, brownish gray; rump, not orange brown. Western species of casual occurrence in Florida. ^Eyialitis montaua. Mountain Plover. See No. 231. 'â For directions I'or nieasnrcnient, see page Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Cory, Charles B. (Charles Barney), 1857-1921; Field Columbian Museum. Chicago, Special edition printed for the Field Columbian Museum
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