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NEW YORK STATE MrSETM 



Ochthodromus wilsonius (Ord) 

 Wilson ! 'lover 



C h a r a d r i u s w i 1 s o n i a Ord. Wilson's Ornithology. 1814. q: 77, pi. 73, fig. 5 



DeKay. Zool. N. Y. 1844. pt 2, p. 211, fig. 176 

 A e g i a 1 i t i s w i 1 s o n i a A. O. U. Check List. Ed. 2. 1895. -^^O- 280 



ochlhp'dromiis. Gr. 6x60%. bank, 8pdjU,os, running; icilson'ius, in honor of 



Alexander Wilson 



Description. Ilill rather long, stout; tail nearly square; upper parts 

 pale brownish gray; band on the forecrown and belt across the forebreast 



black ; loral stripe blackish ; pri- 

 maries and central tail feathers 

 blackish; frontlet, line over the 

 eye, throat, collar around the 

 neck, entire under parts, and 

 outer tail feathers white; the 

 latter marked with dusky toward 

 the ends ; nape and sides of occi- 

 put tinged ivith ochcroits next the 

 white collar; legs flesh -colored ; 

 eyelids uncolored; bill black. 



Length 7.25-8 inches; wing 

 4.5-5; tail 2; tarsus 1. 1 -1. 2; mid- 

 dle toe and claw .9; bill .8-. 9. 



The Wilson plover was never 

 common on the coast of this 

 State and although DeKa\' 

 speaks of it as breeding, there 

 seems to be no definite record of its nest and eggs ever having been found in 



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New York. The following are the records of its occurrence for the last 60 years : 



Flatlands, L. I. Collection of L. I. Hist. Soc. 

 Penn Yan, N. Y. Spring 1868. Birds Cen. N. Y. p. 30 

 Rockaway, L. I. July i, 1872. Lawrence, Forest and Stream, 10 

 Buffalo, N. Y. Rare migrant. Bergtold, Birds of Buffalo, i 

 Far Rockaway, L. L May 17, 1879. (?). Lawrence, Auk, 2 

 12:348 



Wilson plover. O cli t h nd rem us wilsonius (Ord). 

 men in State Museum. * nat. size 



From speci- 



-j5 

 p. 9 



; Forest and Stream, 



Good Ground. L. L 

 Oneida Lake, N. Y. 

 Shinnecock bav, L. 



May 28, 1879. (9). Dutchcr, N. O. C. Bui 



18S0. Ralph & Bagg, Birds of Oneida County, p 

 May 15, 1884. (O). Butcher, Auk, 3: 438 



242; 5: 1S6 

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