. . sand or among wetrocks its color so perfectly matches its surroundings that theeye hardly can find it. Dr. Brewer says that a few Semipalmated Plovers havebeen known to summer and probably to breed on GrandManan; but I know of no recent instance of the summering ofthis species in New England. Its food on the coast consists largely of small Crustacea,mollusks, eggs of marine animals, and insects, which it some-times gleans from ploughed fields. In the interior it feeds onlocusts, other Orthoptera and many other terrestrial insects
. . sand or among wetrocks its color so perfectly matches its surroundings that theeye hardly can find it. Dr. Brewer says that a few Semipalmated Plovers havebeen known to summer and probably to breed on GrandManan; but I know of no recent instance of the summering ofthis species in New England. Its food on the coast consists largely of small Crustacea,mollusks, eggs of marine animals, and insects, which it some-times gleans from ploughed fields. In the interior it feeds onlocusts, other Orthoptera and many other terrestrial Aughey examined the stomach contents of elevenRing-necks taken in four counties of Nebraska between April,1865, and July, 1875, and found all of them filled with stomachs contained from forty to sixty Rocky Moun-tain locusts each, and in all but one of the eleven there wereother insects. 354 GAME BIRDS, WILD-FOWL AND SHORE BIRDS. PIPING PLOVER {JEgialitis meloda).Common or local names: Clam-bird; Mourning-bird; Beach-plover; Length. — to 7 inches; bill .45 to .48. Adult Male. — Forehead, chin, throat and ring around neck white; bandacross forward part of crown, between eyes, black; a partial blackcollar on lower neck, almost always broken both front and back, inrare cases complete; upper parts mainly pale ash; tip of tail black;below white; base of bill orange, tip black; legs and feet orange yellow. Adult Female. — Similar, but the black tending to brownish, and less distinct. Young. — Resembles female, but no trace of dark color on head and little,if any, on sides of neck; feathers of upper parts with pale or rustyedgings; bill mainly black. Field Marks. — This is the only pale Ring-neck on the beach. In flightthe wings show much marked dark brown and white. Notes. — A plaintive piping whistle, repeated. Queep, qneep, queep-o(Langille). Nest. — A hollow in the sand or shingle of the beach. Eggs. — to by .95 t
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