. Birds of New York. Birds. 354 NKW YORK STATE MUSEUM Aegialitis meloda (Ord) Piping Plover C h a r a d r i u s in e 1 o d u s Ord. Edition of Wilson's Ornithology. 1824. 7:71 DeKay. Zool. N. Y. 1844. pt 2, p. 210, fig. 177 Aegialitis meloda A. O. U. Check List. Ed. 2. 1895. No. 277 ' melo'da, Lat., melodious Description. Upper parts pale whitish ash; primaries dusky with white middle sections; secondaries and greater coverts mostly white; base of tail and its outermost feathers white, others with blackish terminal portions, slightly tipped with white; a black belt, usually broken on the cente
. Birds of New York. Birds. 354 NKW YORK STATE MUSEUM Aegialitis meloda (Ord) Piping Plover C h a r a d r i u s in e 1 o d u s Ord. Edition of Wilson's Ornithology. 1824. 7:71 DeKay. Zool. N. Y. 1844. pt 2, p. 210, fig. 177 Aegialitis meloda A. O. U. Check List. Ed. 2. 1895. No. 277 ' melo'da, Lat., melodious Description. Upper parts pale whitish ash; primaries dusky with white middle sections; secondaries and greater coverts mostly white; base of tail and its outermost feathers white, others with blackish terminal portions, slightly tipped with white; a black belt, usually broken on the center of jugulum and narrow on back of neck, being widest on sides; a short black iaand on the forecrown, not reaching from eye to eye; frontlet, throat, collar and under parts pure white; legs and base of bill yellow or orange; temiinal half of bill black; eyelids orange. This is the whitest of our little plovers. Length inches; extent 14; wing ; tarsus .85-95; middle toe and claw .75; bill . The Piping plover. Pale ring-neck. Beach-bird, or Beach-flea inhabits the eastern United States, breeding as far north as the Gtdf of St La-wrence and Manitoba, and wintering from Carolina and the gulf coast to the West Indies. In New York it is threatened with â. , . ,. , , ^.,. o â <⢠extirpation. Though it was common Piping plover. Aegialitis mc-Iorla (Ord). Specimen irorn J- ^ Lake Ontario no^v in Stat. Museum. 3 nat. size aloUg thC SOUth and CaSt COaStS of Long Island in Giraud's time, it is now practically limited as a breeding species to Gardiners island, Ram island and similar localities in eastern Suffolk cotmty. It undoubtedly bred in former years along Lake Erie and Lake Ontario, and Mr Todd found several pairs nesting at Presque Isle, Pa., In 1900, but I can find no definite breeding record for western New York. The following records from the interior of New York are before me. Owasco Lake. Fall 1876. Birds Cen. X. V. p. 30 Lockport, N. Y. Aug. 20, 1
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