KEY TO THE WATER HIRDS OF PT.ORIDA. 



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Female and immature birds have the pectoral band lirown, and no black on the head. 

 Length, 7.45; Wing, 4.60; Tail, 1.90; Tarsus, 1.16; IJill, .yo. 



This is rather a Southern species, but stragglers have been taken as far 

 north as Nova Scotia. 



It breeds from Virginia southward and is a common bird in Florida. 



The eggs are usually three in number, dull white dotted and spotted with 

 chocolate brown. 



/Kgialitis wilsonia. 



^Egialitis montaiia. 



SUBOENUS PODASOCYS COUES. 



/EQIALITIS MONTANA {Toions.). 

 Mountain Plover. 



Above uniform brownish gray; feathers occasionally edged witii tawny brown ; under parts 

 entirely white with the exception of the breast, which at times shows a tinge of gray ; a black 

 loral stripe extending from the bill to the eye, and a black superciliary stripe back of the head, 

 showing a patch of black ; shafts of the first primary white : wing coverts grayish l^rown, 

 some of them tipped with white ; bill black ; legs pale brown. 



Length, 8.75 ; Wing, 6; Tarsus, 1.60; Hill, .95. 

 "Temperate North America from the great plains westward; accidental 

 in Florida." (a.o.u. ) 



This species has been recorded from Florida, btit it is not common in 

 the State and must be considered as merelv an accidental straggler. 



The eggs are three to four in number, of olive brown color dotted and 

 marked with brown. 



