. Birds of the United States east of the Rocky Mountains, a manual for the identification of species in hand or in the bush;. Birds; Birds. 232 KEY AND DESCRIPTION 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; culmen, I. North America; breeding in the Arctic regions, and wintering from the Gulf States to Brazil. 5. Piping Plover (277. ^Egiatitis meldda). — A wary, coast- living, short-billed, ashy-backed, white-bellied plover, with a narrow, black collar on the sides, but not co
. Birds of the United States east of the Rocky Mountains, a manual for the identification of species in hand or in the bush;. Birds; Birds. 232 KEY AND DESCRIPTION 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; culmen, I. North America; breeding in the Arctic regions, and wintering from the Gulf States to Brazil. 5. Piping Plover (277. ^Egiatitis meldda). — A wary, coast- living, short-billed, ashy-backed, white-bellied plover, with a narrow, black collar on the sides, but not complete 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-peep-o. (Pale Ring-neck.) Length, 7; wing, 4| (4M|); tail, 2}; tar- sus, |; culmen, £ near- ly. Eastern North America; breeding from the coast of Vir- ginia north to New- foundland, and winter- ing from Florida southward. The Belted Piping Plover (277a. JE. m. circumcincla) is much 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 (278. JEgiaTttis nivdsa).—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 Piping Plover Length, wing, 4\; tail, 2 ; tarsus, 1 ; culmen, America from California eastward to Kansas and Texas Central America and western South America. Western North wintering in. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been
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