632 THE BLACK-BELLIED PLOVER 
YOUNG BLACK-CROWNED NIGHT HERON 
Nests occur only in colonies, sometimes to the number of 
Where timber abounds, 
thousands 
platforms of sticks are placed in saplings or tall 
trees, but in the arid regions they nest upon broken-down tules, or 
upon the ground 
even 
No colonies have been reported in Washington, but there must be at 
least one, probably several, in the Big Bend-Palouse country 
No. 252. 
BLACK-BELLIED PLOVER. 
¥ A.O.U. No. 270. Squatarola squatarola (Linn 
Synonyms.—PBEETLE-HEAD. OX-EY! 
Description.—4dult in summer \bove, broadly dusky or black 
white in spots and termit 
varied by 
p of head 
al edgings, the latter color predominating « 
hind-neck and on wings: primaries dusky brown, with large basal areas and 
vortion of shaft nereasing inwardly) white; upper tail-coverts and tail white 
barred with black; forehead ye, and sides of neck, to or below breast, 
white ning of f er ind crissum, white; sides of head and 
emai ‘ t | oty black: bill and feet black fdult 
