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parts white. Front with a second band of black above the white band ; stripe from the base of the bill to the eye and wide 

 transverse band on tlie breast, brownish black. Upper parts of head and body light ashy brown, with the feathers frequently 

 edged and tipped with pale ashy. Back of the neck encircled with a ring of white, edged above with fine light reddish. Quills 

 brown, with white shafts ; shorter coverts tipped with white ; outer feathers of the tail white, middle feathers dark brown. 

 Bill black, legs yellow. Female. Without the band of bJack in front, and with the pectoral band dull reddish and light 

 ashy brown. 



Total length, 7J inches ; wing, 4j ; tail, 2 inches. 



Hab. — J.Iiddle and Southern States on the Atlantic, and the same coast of South America. 



This plover is of frequent occurrence on the shores of the Atlantic, and is easily recognized 

 by its stout and rather long bill and short tail. It migrates apparently into the southern 

 division of this continent in the winter, and is undoubtedly the species described and figured 

 by Spix as a bird of Brazil, as above cited. 



List of specimens. 



Aegialeus, Reichenbach.' 

 AEGIALITLS SEMIPALMATUS, (B o n .) C a b . 



King Plover ; Semipalmated Plover. 



Ckaradrius stmipalmalus, Bon. Obs. Wils. 1825, No. 219.— 1b. Syn. 1828, 296.— Ib. Am. Orn. IV, 1832, 92; 

 pi. XXV. — Kaup, Isis, 1825, 1375 ; pi. xiv, (head and foot.) — Wagler, Syst. Av. 1827, 

 No. 23.— NuTTALL, Man. II, 24.— Sw, F. B.Am. 11,1831, 367.— Add. Orn. Biog. IV, 

 1838, 256 ; V, 579 ; pi. 330.— Ib. Syn. 224.— Ib. Birds Am. V, 1842, 218 ; pi. 320. 



Jiegialles semipalmata , Bon. List, 1838. 



Jlegialitis semipalmalus, Cab. Cab. Journ. 1856, 425. 



Aegialeus semipalmatus , Reich. Syst. Av. 1853, pl.xviii. 



Tringa hialicida, Wilson, Am. Orn. VII, 1813, 65 ; pi. lix. 



Ckaradrius hicUicvla, Ord, ed. Wils VII, 69. 



Figures.- WiLsoK, Am. Orn. VII, pi. 59, fig. 3.— Aud. B. of Am. pi. 330 ; oct. ed. V, pi. 320.— Bonap. Am. Orn. IV, pi. 

 25, fig. 4. 



Sp. Cii. — Small, wings long, toes connected at base, especially the outer to the middle toe. Front, throat, ring around the 

 neck, and entire under parts, white, a band of deep black across the breast, extending around the back of the neck below the 

 white ring. Band from the base of the bill, under the eye, and wide frontal band above the white band, black. Upper parts 

 light ashy brown, with a tinge of olive ; quills brownish black, with their shafts white in a middle portion, and occasionally 

 a lanceolate white spot along the shafts of the shorter primaries ; shorter tertiaries edged with white ; lesser coverts tipped 

 with white. Middle feathers of the tail ashy olive brown, with a wide subterminal band of brownish black, and narrowly 

 tipped with white ; two outer tail feathers white, others intermediate, like the middle, but widely tipped with white. Bill 

 orange yellow, tipped with black ; legs yellow. Female similar, but rather lighter colored. Young without the black band 

 in front, and with the band across the breast ashy brown. 



Total length, about 7 inches ; wing, 4? ; tail, 2J inches. 



IJab. — The whole of temperate North America. Common on the Atlantic. 



' Jlegialeus, Reich. Syst. Av. 185, p. xviii. Type Ckaradrius semipaimalus, Bon. Small, bill rather short. Tail 

 and wings rather long. 



