. A guide to the birds of New England and eastern New York; containing a key for each season and short descriptions of over 250 species, with particular reference to their appearance in the field . ; rest of under parts white ; legs yellow ; base ofbill orange ; tip black. The Semipalmated Plover, or Ring-neck, is a commonmigrant along the sea-coast in May, and again from themiddle of July to October. Ring-necks frequent the beaches and mud-flats exposed at low tide. They are not, as a rule shy, and if startled, fly only a short distance, uttering as they rise a sweet call, chee-icee, as chara
. A guide to the birds of New England and eastern New York; containing a key for each season and short descriptions of over 250 species, with particular reference to their appearance in the field . ; rest of under parts white ; legs yellow ; base ofbill orange ; tip black. The Semipalmated Plover, or Ring-neck, is a commonmigrant along the sea-coast in May, and again from themiddle of July to October. Ring-necks frequent the beaches and mud-flats exposed at low tide. They are not, as a rule shy, and if startled, fly only a short distance, uttering as they rise a sweet call, chee-icee, as characteristic of the mud-flats and beaches as the hew, hew, hew, hew of the Yellow-legs is of the grassy marshes. They are often associated with the ,, , . , Fig. 75. Semipalmated Plover smaller sandpipers known as Peep (see p. 267), or with their larger relative the Black-bellied Plover; their bobbing readily distinguishes them from the Peep. They are much commoner than the Piping Plover, and are a darker shade of brown on the back, the color of wet rather than of dry sand. The blach ring encircles the breast, while in the Piping Plover the black bands from each side of the breast do not 256 BIRDS OF NEW ENGLAND AND EASTERN NEW YORK Killdeer. Oxyechus Ad. — Head and back brown ; ring entirely around neck white,edged on the hind neck with black ; forehead, stripe over eye,throat, and lower parts white ; two black bands across breast, thelower one narrow ; rump and base of tail cinnamon. Nest, on ground. Eggs, buffy-white, with chocolate markings,chiefly at the larger end. The Killdeer is a rare summer resident in southeasternMassachusetts and Rhode Island, and a rare spring and fall migrant alongthe coast. It occa-sionally appears inwestern Massachu-setts, and on LongIsland has been re-corded in everymonth but the breeding sea-son it is noisy andrestless, continuallyuttering the com-plaining kill-dee,from which it getsits name, and occa-Fig. 76. K
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