The Century dictionary and cyclopedia; a work of universal reference in all departments of knowledge, with a new atlas of the world .. . y mottled or speckled during the changes of plumage. ThebiUand feet are black; the feet are three-toed. The plover lays four eggs, \^n inches long by 1^ broad, of a form shapt color, with heavy brownish or blackish blotches. Heuco — 2. Some or any bird of the family Charadri- idie; a charadrio- moi-pliic gralla- torial bird. The American golden plover, or field-plover, is Charadnm do- minictis, very closely resembling C. jiluvialls, but havingashy-gray instea
The Century dictionary and cyclopedia; a work of universal reference in all departments of knowledge, with a new atlas of the world .. . y mottled or speckled during the changes of plumage. ThebiUand feet are black; the feet are three-toed. The plover lays four eggs, \^n inches long by 1^ broad, of a form shapt color, with heavy brownish or blackish blotches. Heuco — 2. Some or any bird of the family Charadri- idie; a charadrio- moi-pliic gralla- torial bird. The American golden plover, or field-plover, is Charadnm do- minictis, very closely resembling C. jiluvialls, but havingashy-gray instead ofwhite axillars. TheSwissbullhead,ort>lack-Hied plover, is Sqim-?tn hilrifirti, inhabit-: must pails of the1 Id, and having fourIH. (See cut under?/fttarola.) Many Mill plovers with!iite inidt.!- pjirts. andiLS ur bands ( IdackII the head, neck, orbreast, are known asring-plovers or rinf/-necks, and mostly be-long to the genus yKii-alites. (See also killdrc.)The mi>st siiigubu ofthese is the cniok-billedplover, Anarhi/nchus/riintalut. having thebill bent sidewisc Itinhabits New mountain plover of. 4562 the western United States is Podasocys montamis. Someplovers are known as dotterels. (Sec dotterel and Evdro-mias.) The thickknees, stone-pi overs, or stone-curlewsare birdsnf the family (Edicnemidie. (See cut under ^rfic-nemm.) Stilt-plovrfs are the sti\ts, Himnntopin^e. (Seecut under .^?/(V^} Tbt-crab-plover is 7>rom«sarrfcr^>;ff. Plov-ers eggs, so called in England, are laid by the lapwing,Vanellus cristatus. 3. In various parts of the United States, theBartramian sandpiper, Bartramia Jongicauda,more fully called upland, h igh land, pasture, field,corn-field] prairie, grass, andp}lain plover. Seecut under Bartramia.—4. The greater or lesseryellowshanks, Totanus melanoteucus or T. fia-vipes, commonly called yellow-legged plovers.[Local, U. H.] — 5t. A loose woman: otherwisecalled a quail. Here will beZekiel Edgworth. and three or four gallantsw
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