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resemble exactly the coloring of the beach and 

 are very difficult to see. The old birds, after the 

 manner of other birds of the family, feign wounded 

 and try every means to get their enemy away. 

 The young are hatched in early August and at 

 once accompany their parents in search for sand- 

 bugs, feeding on the little insects that abound on 

 the beach, running quickly away from the pur- 

 suer, or settling motionless on the sand, where 

 they easily escape observation. The snowy plover 

 is found also on the interior bodies of water near 

 the coast, and is very abundant in the Salt Lake 

 region. In May, 1901, I shot a pair of these birds, 

 feeding on the edge of a lake, near Chihuahua, 

 Mexico, in company with a number of larger 

 birds, teal and avocets ; they were the only ones 

 seen. 



MONGOLIAN PLOVER 



{ALgialitis mongola) 



Adult male — Forehead, a broad band beneath the eye extending 

 over the ear-coverts, black ; a narrow frontal band of black 

 from the culmen to the upper anterior margin of the eye; 

 between this and the stripe below is a stripe of white ; lower 

 eyelid, white ; stripe from behind the eye, buff, becoming rufous ; 

 crown and back of neck, brownish gray, mottled with rufous ; a 

 narrow collar of bright cinnamon about the neck, broadening 

 on to the breast ; upper parts and wings, grayish brown with a 

 faint tinge of green ; tips of greater wing-coverts, white, form- 

 ing a bar ; primaries, dark brown ; upper tail-coverts, grayish 

 in the centre, laterally white ; tail, central feathers dark gray, 

 grading to white on the outer feathers ; each feather, except the 



