. Handbook of birds of eastern North America . can not be called a whistler,nor even a piper, in an ordinary sensed Its tone has a particularlystriking and musical quality. Queep, queep, queep-o, or peep, peep,peep-lo, each syllable being uttered with a separate, distinct, and some-what long-drawn enunciation, may imitate its peculiar melody, thetone of which is round, full, and sweet, reminding one of a high keyon an Italian hand organ or the hanthoy in a church organ. It isalways pleasing to the lover of Natures melodies, and in the still airof the evening it is very impressive. 277a. JG. m.
. Handbook of birds of eastern North America . can not be called a whistler,nor even a piper, in an ordinary sensed Its tone has a particularlystriking and musical quality. Queep, queep, queep-o, or peep, peep,peep-lo, each syllable being uttered with a separate, distinct, and some-what long-drawn enunciation, may imitate its peculiar melody, thetone of which is round, full, and sweet, reminding one of a high keyon an Italian hand organ or the hanthoy in a church organ. It isalways pleasing to the lover of Natures melodies, and in the still airof the evening it is very impressive. 277a. JG. m. circumcincta Ridgw. Belted Piping Plover.— Closely resembles the preceding, from which it differs in having the bandson either side of the breast joined, forming a continuous breastband. ^ Mange.—Breeds from northern Illinois and Nebraska northward to Lake 176 PLOVERS. Winnepeg, and eastward to the Magdalen and Sable Islands; winters fromthe Gulf southward. Casual on the Atlantic coast during the Island, A. V. in ./4//i4
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