. Hunting and fishing in Florida : including a key to the water birds known to occur in the State . Genus /EGIALITIS OXYECHUS Reich. /EQIALITIS VOCIFERA (/////.).Killdeer Plover. Adult: Crown and back brownish gray, feathers tipped with rufous; a ring around theneck, lores, and a patch on the breast black; forehead white; throat and spot behind the eyeand a band around the neck white; lower breast and belly white; tail coverts and rumpbright rufous; tail rufous and gray tipped with black and white; bill black. Length, : Wing, ; Tarsus, ; Bill, .75. The Killdeer Plove
. Hunting and fishing in Florida : including a key to the water birds known to occur in the State . Genus /EGIALITIS OXYECHUS Reich. /EQIALITIS VOCIFERA (/////.).Killdeer Plover. Adult: Crown and back brownish gray, feathers tipped with rufous; a ring around theneck, lores, and a patch on the breast black; forehead white; throat and spot behind the eyeand a band around the neck white; lower breast and belly white; tail coverts and rumpbright rufous; tail rufous and gray tipped with black and white; bill black. Length, : Wing, ; Tarsus, ; Bill, .75. The Killdeer Plover ranges on the Atlantic coast from Newfoundlandto the northern part of South America. It is a rare bird on the New Eng- KEY TO THE WATER 15IRUS OF FLORIDA. 293 land coast as a rule. A few years ago there was a great flight of thesebirds along the coast of Massachusetts in December, and hundreds ofthem were sent to market and sold. 1 killed several near Ilyannis, Mass.,at that /Egialites vocifera. Tlie Killdeer is a common bird in Florida,white mottled and lined with chocolate brown. The eggs are pale brownish
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