OF NORTH AMERICA. 91 
-more or less encircles the neck. (There is a 
variety in the West, occasionally found on the 
Atlantic coast, which has the black band on 
the neck completely encircling it, and this 
has been named A. m. circumcinctus, but it 
differs in no other way.) Bill yellow, black 
at tip. Legs orange-yellow. A colored ring 
around the eye. Length about 6% inches. 
Extent about 14 inches, being a trifle smaller 
than No. 102. 
They are very pretty birds to shoot, but, if 
wounded, will run like a witch, and are then 
a good test of marksmanship. 
104. SNOWY PLOVER. 
Mgialitis nivosa. 
A little lighter in color than No. 103, and 
with a reddish tinge on the top of the head, 
which is nearly surrounded by a band of 
black. There is also a patch of black on 
either side of the neck, but it makes no attempt 
to encircle it as in No. 108, and there is no 
black band on breast as in No. 105. Biull 
black and slender. Legs black. Length 7 
inches. Extent about 14 inches. Eyes and 
eyelids dark brown. 
This bird is found upon the Western shores 
and sometimes about the Gulf of Mexico and 
the salt lands of the interior. I know nothing 
of its habits, but am informed that it resembles 
No. 102. 
