. Hunting and fishing in Florida, including a key to the water birds known to occur in the state . doubt occurs there. Subgenus OCHTHODROMUS Reich. /EQIALITIS WILSONIA (Ord.). Wilsons Plover. Adult male : Above ashy brown; forehead white, extending into a faint superciliary stripeof dull black on the crown; throat white, continuing on the sides of the neck, nearly joiningupon the nape; a black pectoral band, the feathers edged with white, becoming brown uponthe sides; under parts white; two central tail feathers brown, the others showing increasingmarkings of white to the outer tail feathers,
. Hunting and fishing in Florida, including a key to the water birds known to occur in the state . doubt occurs there. Subgenus OCHTHODROMUS Reich. /EQIALITIS WILSONIA (Ord.). Wilsons Plover. Adult male : Above ashy brown; forehead white, extending into a faint superciliary stripeof dull black on the crown; throat white, continuing on the sides of the neck, nearly joiningupon the nape; a black pectoral band, the feathers edged with white, becoming brown uponthe sides; under parts white; two central tail feathers brown, the others showing increasingmarkings of white to the outer tail feathers, which are white; bill black (large and stout); legspinkish. KEY TO THE WATER BIRDS OF FLORIDA. 295 Female and immature birds have tlie pectoral band brown, and no black on the , ; Wing, ; Tail, ; Tarsus, ; Bill, .90. ■ This is rather a Southern species, but stragglers have been taken as farnorth as Nova Scotia. from Virginia southward and is a common bird in Florida. The eggs are usually three in number, dull white dotted and spotted withchocolate
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