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PR.ECOCIAL GRALLATORES — LIMICOL^. 



juguluin luerelv .shaded with light grayish l)ro\vn ; but coloration in this group is of little value 

 compared with deviations of structure, the s-pecies of yEgialitls being a case in point. 



Eudromias, the type of which is Olmraxlrius onorinellus, Linn., differs from Podasocys in bein" of 

 much stouter l)uild, the culiuen shorter than the middle toe, the latter nearly half as long as the 

 tarsus, the web Ijetween the outer and middle toe much larger, the tertials extending to the ends 

 of the primaries, etc. No American Plover is referable to Eudromias, as properly restricted. 



Podasocys montanus. 



THE MOUNTAIN PLOVER. 



CImradrius monlamis, Towns. Journ. Ac. Nat. 8ci. Philad. VII. 1837, 192. — AuD. Orn. Bioff. IV. 



1838, 362, pi. 350 ; Syiiop. 1839, 223 ; B. Am. V. 1842, 213, pi. 318. 

 ^tjialitis moiUcuiuSyVAHsis, in Baird's B. N. Am. 1858, 693. — Baiud, Cat. N. Am. B. 1859, no. 



505. 

 Podasocys montanus, Coue.s, Pr. Ac. Nat. Sci. Philad. 1866, 96 ; Check List, 2d ed. 1882, no. 592. — 



Eluot, lUiistr. Am. B. II. 1869, pi. 39. — RiDGW. Norn. N. Am. B. 1881, no. 523. 

 yEgialUis asiuticus, var. montanus, CouES, Key, 1872, 245 ; Check Li.st, 1873, no. 402. 

 Eudromius montanus, CouES, Clieck List, 1873, Apj). p. 135, no. 402 ; Birds N. W. 1874, 456. 



IIab. Western Province of North America ; accidental in Florida ; no extralimital record. 

 Sp. Char. Adult, breeding plumage: Wide frontal crescent, superciliary stripe, and entire 

 lower parts white, purest on the forehead, of a more or' less soiled tint beneath, the jugulum 



Breeding plumage. 



shaded with light grayish brown, most distinct laterally where insensibly merging into the color 

 of the upper parts. Fore part of the crown, and stripe from the rictus to the eye (across lores). 



Winter plumage. 



black. Rest of upper parts, uniform light grayish brown, the remiges and tail dusky ; shafts of 

 primaries, white. Adult in spring : Similar to the above, but upper parts and jugulum tinged with 

 light buffy ochraceous. Adidt and young in winter: More strongly tinged with buff, both above 



