. Birds of the United States east of the Rocky Mountains; a manual for the identification of species in hand or in the bush. Birds. KEY AJ^n DESCIUI'TION webbed. In feeding, the small flocks of five to ten scatter, but on the wing form a compact bunch. (Ring-neck.) Length, 7; wing, 4| (4|-5) ; tail, 2^; tarsus, 1; oulnien, \. North America; breeding in the Arctic regions, and wintering from the Gulf States to Brazil. 6. Piping Plover (277. yEgialltis meldda). â A wary, coast- living, short-billed, ashy-backed, white-bellied plover, with a narrow, black collar on the sides, but not cotnplete ac
. Birds of the United States east of the Rocky Mountains; a manual for the identification of species in hand or in the bush. Birds. KEY AJ^n DESCIUI'TION webbed. In feeding, the small flocks of five to ten scatter, but on the wing form a compact bunch. (Ring-neck.) Length, 7; wing, 4| (4|-5) ; tail, 2^; tarsus, 1; oulnien, \. North America; breeding in the Arctic regions, and wintering from the Gulf States to Brazil. 6. Piping Plover (277. yEgialltis meldda). â A wary, coast- living, short-billed, ashy-backed, white-bellied plover, with a narrow, black collar on the sides, but not cotnplete across the breast, and a narrow, black stripe from eye to eye above the forehead. In winter the black is replaced by brownish gray. Its notes are peculiarly sweet and musical, a peep- peep-pe(;p-o. (Pale Eing-neck.) Length, 7; wing, 4} (4l-4i); tail, 2; ; tar- sus, J; culmen, 1 near- ly. Eastern North America; breeding from the coast of Vir- Piping Plover §>">» north to New- foundland, and winter- ing from Florida southward. The Belted Piping Plover (277". ^-B. m. circumcincla) is nmch like the last, but has the black collar complete across the breast. The young lack this complete collar. Mississippi Valley ; breeding from northern Illinois northward, and wintering from the Gulf southward. Occasionally eastward to the Atlantic coast. 6. Snowy Plover (l.'7S. ^â Eijialltis nicdsa). â An extreme western, grayish-brown-backed plover, with the forehead, line over eye, somewhat of a collar around the back neck, and all lower parts pure white. Above the white forehead there is a black patch on the crown, another on the ear coverts, and a third on the side of the breast. The young has the black mark- ings replaced by ashy-brown. Length, 65; wing, 4|; tail, 2 ; tarsus, 1 ; culmen, |. Western North America from California to Kansas and Texas; wintering in Central America and western South Please note that these images are extracted from scanned
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