. A practical handbook of British birds . Yarrell, in, p. ix ; Saunders, p. 545. Description.—Adult male and female. Winter.—Feathers at baseof upper mandible black-brown ; fore-head white ; fore-part ofcrown from eye to eye black ; rest of crown and part of nape sepia,feathers faintly edged tawny most pronounced bordering whitecollar ; white collar suc-ceeded by a black one,separates crown frommantle ; mantle andscapulars sepia, feathersmostly narrowly edgedtawny ; back, rump andupper tail-coverts ochra-ceous-tawny ; band fromcrown above centre ofeye to nape white, fea-thers bordering napemor
. A practical handbook of British birds . Yarrell, in, p. ix ; Saunders, p. 545. Description.—Adult male and female. Winter.—Feathers at baseof upper mandible black-brown ; fore-head white ; fore-part ofcrown from eye to eye black ; rest of crown and part of nape sepia,feathers faintly edged tawny most pronounced bordering whitecollar ; white collar suc-ceeded by a black one,separates crown frommantle ; mantle andscapulars sepia, feathersmostly narrowly edgedtawny ; back, rump andupper tail-coverts ochra-ceous-tawny ; band fromcrown above centre ofeye to nape white, fea-thers bordering napemore or less tawny ; abrown band intermixedwith black extends beloweye from lores to ear-coverts ; rest of neck,chin and throat white ;broad black pectoralband is divided intotwo unequal halves byan irregular band of buff-tipped white feathers, feathers oflower and narrower half of black band edged white ; sides ^ oflower-breast sepia, feathers faintly edged tawny ; remainingunder-parts white ; lower under tail-coverts sometimes tinged. Half the tail of the Killdeer Plover (Charadrius voeiferus). THE KILLDEER PLOVER. 529 ochraceous-tawny and irregularly marked brown ; tail-featherssepia, darker subterniinally and broadly tipped white orochraceous-tawny, outer ones washed latter colour, central pairsepia shaded darker and narrowly tipped buff, outer pair usuallywhite, barred irregularly black-brown and sometimes suffusedochraceous-tawny; primaries dark sepia faintly tipped white,outer webs black-brown, inner w^ebs largely white and from 4th or5th inwards with a white mark along shaft and on outer web, 3rdusually and 2nd sometimes with a white shaft-streak towards tip ;secondaries sepia with white tips and bases and more or less whiteon inner webs, inner ones largely white on both webs, innermost asmantle ; primary-coverts black-brown tipped white ; greatercoverts sepia broadly edged white forming a white wing-bar ; inner-most greater, median and lesser coverts ash-brown fringed
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