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the inner ones having an inconspicuous mark of white at the base 

 of the outer web ; the secondaries brown with white shafts, and 

 paler bases to the inner webs, the innermost long secondaries brown 

 like the back ; rump brown, with a dusky patch ; upper tail-coverts 

 also brown, the lateral ones white, like the sides of the rump ; tail- 

 feathers light brown with white tips, before which is a sub-terminal 

 shade of darker brown, evanescent towards the outer feathers, 

 which are white, the penultimate one shaded with pale smoky 

 brown ; crown of head brown like the back, separated by a band 

 of black from the forehead, which is white, as also the eyebrow ; 

 a streak of black from the base of the bill to the eye ; ear-coverts 

 light brown ; cheeks and throat white, like the rest of the under 

 surface; across the fore-neck a broad band of black; under wing- 

 coverts and auxiliaries white : " bill black ; feet pale flesh-colour ; 

 iris brown; eyelids greyish" (Ji. Ridgway). Total length 6 - 3 

 inches, culmen 0'85, wing 4'6, tail 1*85, tarsus 12. 



The full summer plumage of this Plover is apparently developed 

 before the return of the species to its breeding-quarters ; in full 

 plumage the eyebrow, ear-coverts, and hind-neck are bright cinna- 

 mon rufous, and there is a good deal of rufous mixed with the 

 black collar on the fore-neck. This rufous colour can be traced in 

 a few examples from North America, but it woidd seem to fade 

 very quickly, and in most of our series, procured in May and June, 

 it has disappeared entirely. 



Adult female in summer plumage. Similar to the male, hut 

 differing in the praepectoral collar being brown instead of black, 

 often with a tinge of rufous ; the black band on the forehead never 

 fully developed as in the male, and often entirely absent. 



Adult in winter plumage. Differs from the summer plumage in 

 wanting the black on the lores and the fore part of the crown, 

 these parts being brown like the rest of the back ; the band on the 

 fore-neck also ashy brown instead of black. 



Hub. North America, from Nova Scotia, south through Central 

 America, to Brazil and Peru. 







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Halifax, Nova Scotia. 

 Pennsylvania (Krider). 

 Cobb's Isl., Virginia, July 



(Hensh. Coll.). 

 Fort Macon, X. Carolina, May 



(E. Cones). 

 Tarpon Springs, Florida, May, 



June ( W. E. D. Scott). 

 Corpus Christi, Texas, May 



(F. B. Armstrong). 

 San Bias, Tepic, Mexico, April 



( W. B. Richardson). 

 Progreso, Yucatan, Nov. (G. 



F. Gaumer). 

 Cozumel Island (G. F. Gate 



mer). 



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