CHARADRIID.E — CHARADRIIN^ : PLOVER. 



Ill 



Excepting in the latter respect, they are liardly distinguishable from the winter adults. 

 Chick : Upper parts mottled 

 with gray, black, and brown, 

 in no special pattern. Col- 

 lar round hind-neck, fore- 

 head, and under parts, whiti . 

 North America at large, in 

 migration the most abundant 

 and generally diffused of tlic 

 Ring-necks, especially plen- 

 tiful in unsuspicious flocks 

 on beaches, marshes, ai 

 flats in late summer an^l 

 early autunm, passing south 

 to winter from Florida, Gnl 

 States, West Indies, and I. 

 Cala. to much of S. Am 

 Breeds from N. Manitolia 

 Ontario, and Gulf of St 

 Lawrence to high latitudes 

 eggs 4, closely like those o 

 Killdeer, but much smaller, 

 averaging about 1.25 X 

 0.95. This bird represents 

 in America the common 

 European Ring-neck, and is 

 very similar in coloration ; 

 but a glance at the toi> 

 suffices to distinguish it from 

 the fdUowing : 



Fig. r,2G. 

 1). G. Elliot.) 



Killdeer Plover. (From "North American Shore Birds, 



(Subgenus yEgialttis prf>per.) 

 JE. hiati'cula. (Dimin. of Lat. hiatus, a 

 gape; hiaticnla being a mistaken translation 

 of ;(apaSpidy, charadrios, because the bird i~ 



found about the moutljs 



(hiatus) of rivers. Tin 



proper form of the wonl. 



according to the intiMii 



and meaning, would 1" 



hinticola, from hiatus ami 



colere, to inhabit, or i>i- 



coht, an inhabitant. 



Figs. 520, 530.) Euuo 



I'EAN Ring Plovei: 



Adult (J 9: Size of tl,. 



last, <)r rather larger, aii' 



general aspect the same; 



but no evident web be- 

 tween inner and middle toe, and tliat between outer and middle i>nly reaching to end of first 



Pio. .v.'T. 

 mated Plover 



Semipal- 



Fio. 5'J8. — Seuii|ialiiiat«(l i'iover. 



