126 KEY TO THE BIRDS OF EASTERN NORTH AMERICA, 
Bill, orange at base, the tip, black; legs, orange yellow: no black stripe from bill to eye; 
black breast band, not confluent; two middle tail feathers, tipped with white. Eastern 
species not found west of Rocky Mountains. Aegialitis meloda. Piping Plover. 
See No. 228. 
Bill, orange at base, the tip, black; legs, orange yellow; no black stripe from bill to eye; 
breast band, continuous and not broken in the middle; two middle tail feathers, tipped with 
white. Eastern species not found west of Rocky Mountains. 
Aegialitis im-loda circumcincta. Belted Piping Plover. 
See No. 229. 
Snowy Plover. Aegialitis nivosa. 
Bill, entirely black; legs, slate color; no black stripe from bill to eye; two middle tail 
feathers, not tipped with white; two outer tail feathers, white. Western species ranges 
from ‘Texas and Kansas, west, to the Pacific Ocean. Accidental in Florida. 
Aegialitis nivosa. Snowy Plover. 
See No. 229a, 
* Group 3. Wing, 5.50 to 6.75 inches long; toes, three, 
no hind toe. 
Breast, with two black bands; underparts, white: rump and upper tail coverts, orange 
brown. Hyialitis vocifera. Killdeer Plover. 
See No. 225. 
No black band on breast; back, brownish gray; rump, not orange brown. Western 
species of casual occurrence in Florida. Hyialitis montana. Mountain Plover. 
See No. 231. 
* For directions for measurement, see page 9. 
