SANDPIPERS. 185 



pipers do. Breeds far north in eastern N. 

 A., south in Aug.; when it was once abundant 

 on coasts of Labrador and south to N. E.. 

 now exceedingly rare and on the verge of 

 extinct'on; winters in southern S. A., north 

 in April when it avoids the Atlantic coast, 

 passinsr through the Mississippi Valley and 

 westward to the plains. 



132. WHIMBREL. 



Differs from the Hudsonian Curlew in 

 having the rump and axillaries white, the 

 latter banded w^ith black. Northern parts 

 of Old World, occasional in Greenland. 



P L Y E E . 



Difiers from other Shore Birds in having 

 shorter bills and necks, and larger heads; 

 toes, three. 



133. LAPWING. 



About the size of the Black-bellied 

 Plover, 13; wings round, head crested, top 

 of head and forehead, throat and breast, 

 blue-black; back, metallic green, bluish and 



