SUMMER GROUP — WATER BIRDS 6 1 



140. PIPING PLOVER. 



Pale ashy-brown White. 



6%. Black line across forehead ; sides of face, white ; 



black band across upper breast, often interrupted, and not 



circling neck ; $ has black of forehead and neck obscure. 



Breeds anywhere along coast, but most abundant in migration, 

 when it is found in flocks ; nest, in tussock of grass ; eggs, June ist, 

 4, clay-colored or creamy, with a few small dots. 



141. KILDEER PLOVER. 



Grayish-brown White, black-banded. 



9-10. Black line each side of crown, meeting on forehead ; 



white superciliary line ; black eye-stripe ; tail, with i to 3 



black bars, white-tipped ; below, white, with 2 broad black 



bands across upper breast, reaching to hind-neck. 



This and spotted sandpiper the most abundant of the "waders " 

 breeding in territory ; not gregarious ; an inland rather than a coast- 

 bird ; name from sound of note ; nest, in grass, near water; eggs, in 

 May, 4, creamy to clay-color, spotted ; winters in S. Pa. 



142. SPOTTED SANDPIPER. 



Ashy-olive, black-speckled White, spotted. 



7/4- White superciliary line ; white on wings ; tail, white- 

 barred ; below, pure white, with large black spots ; feet, 

 pinkish. 



Along every fresh-water course and on N. J. coast ; peculiar teeter- 

 ing of body, and low flight ; nest, on ground, near water; eggs, 4, 

 tinted and marked. 



GULLS AND TERNS. 



These are beautiful aerial coast-birds, the former, for 

 the most part, coming from the north in winter, the latter 

 from the south in summer ; they breed only locally within 

 territory. 



