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a black line above the forehead and the sides of the breast with 
large black patches not connected; above pale grayish, below pure 
white...... : .Snowy Plover. 
6. Bill yellow at ies cee nee ah isis pet gee = Seer not black; 
sides of breast with black patches, which are connected by a nar- 
row breast-line; a black crown-line; back pale grayish.... 
. .Belted Piping Plover. 
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. Squatarola squatarola (Linnaeus) —BLACK-BELLIED PLOVER. 
A regular migrant, but not usually common. However, F. W. Powell 
records an instance in which he saw thousands on the Platte river, 
May 21, 1883 (See Cooke’s Bird Migr. in Miss.Val., p. 98). Migrating 
late in April and early in May and in September and October. Sarpy 
county, Lincoln, Omaha, Alliance, Atkinson, Neligh, Alda, North 
Platte. Breeds in Arctic regions. 
272. Charadrius dominicus Mueller—GoLpEN PLOVER. 
Formerly abundant, in flocks of hundreds, still rather common; not 
recorded west of Holt county. Found from the middle of April to 
the middle of May and in September and October. Also breeds in 
Arctic regions. 
273. *Oxyechus vociferus (Linneaus)—KILLDEER. 
An abundant migrant, and also abundant summer resident in the 
sand-hill region, a common breeder over the rest of the state, especially 
northward. Arrives early in March and remains till November. 
274. Aegialitis semipalmata Bonaparte—SmMIPALMATED PLOoveR. 
A common migrant. Seen during May and September and the first 
half of October. Breeds in British America. Not reported west of 
Neligh. 
277a. *Aegialitis meloda circumcincta Ridgway—-BELTED PrpINnc PLoveER. 
A fairly common migrant; breeds about the lakes in the sand-hill 
‘ region, along the Niobrara river, in northern Nebraska, on the Loup 
at Dannebrog, along the Platte, and perhaps on any of the rivers of 
the state where are the sand-bars on which it nests. Aughey recorded 
it breeding in Dakota county in July, 1866, where he found two nests. 
Arrives in May and departs during the latter part of September. 
278. Aegialitis nivosa Cassin—SNowy PLover. 
This species was included in Bruner’s Notes on Nebraska Birds 
based on the seeing of a flock of what was supposed to be this plover 
in Holt county in the spring of 1885. But the first definite record, 
and so far the only one, was established by the taking of two specimens 
at the lake near Lincoln, May 17, 1903,bySwenk. It must be looked 
upon as a rare straggler from the west. 
281. Podasocys montanus (Townsend)—Mounrain PLover. 
Not uncommon in extreme western Nebraska, where Bruner has 
