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a. alexandrina. Lores always crossed by a dusky stripe. Jn summer. 

 pileum brownish griiy or dull liulT. Wing, 4.10: culmen. .riS-.iM; tarsus, 

 1.02-1.12; middlo toe. .55-.liii. Hab. Europe, etc. 

 fS. niiosn. Lo'es usually entirely. whito (never with a continuous ordistinet 

 dusky streak). /» sumHic;-, pileum pale brownish gray or grayish buff. 

 Wing, 4. 20-1. 30; ciilmon, .'JO; tarsus. .90-1.05: middle toe, ..V.-.W. Hali. 

 cstcrn America; Yucatan: Cuba. 

 B. Nape without trace of white or dusky collar. 



(J. Culmeu equal lo or longer than the middle toe. the bill slender. 



II. M. mongola. In summer, whole breast and nape clear einnamon-rufous. and 

 top of head tinged with the same: lores, suborbital region, and aurieulars 

 black, the former bordered above by a white line, sometimes meeting over the 

 forehead; chin, throat, toreneck, belly, and erissum pure white: upper parts 

 brownish gray. In icin ler. the rufous entirely absent-, forehead and lower parts 

 white, the breast crossi'd by a faint grayish brown bar, clarkening into a dusky 

 patch on each side; aurieulars and loral streak somewhat dusky. Wing, .1.15- 

 5.10. Hah. Asia in general, breeding northward: Choris Peninsula. Alaska. 



-ffigialitis semipalmata (Bona]).) 



SEMIPALMATED PLOVER, 



Popular synonyms. Hemipalmuted Ring Plover: Anieriean King PIomm-; Ring-neck: 



Ueach Bird. 

 Tringa hiaticula Wilson. Orn. vii, 1813, 65, pi. 5!i, f. 3 [nee Link.). 



Charadriiis hiaticula ORD.ed. Wils. vii, 09. 

 Vharadrius semipahnatus Bonap. Comp. Li.st. 1838, 4.5. , 



.Hgialitis semipahnatus Ci.B. 1856.— Cass, in Baird's B. N. Am. 1858, 604.— Baird, Cat 

 N. Am. B. 1859. No. 507.-ConES, Key, 1872, 214 ; Check List, 1871, No. 399: 2d ed. 1882, 

 No. 586.— BiDGW. Nom. N. Am. B. 1881, No. 517. 

 .^gialitis semipalmata B. B. & R. Water B. N. Am. 1, 1884, 1.54.— A. O. U. Check List, 

 1886. No. 274.— Broow. Man. N. Aip. B. 1887, 176. 

 Had. North America in general, breeding in the arctic and subarctic districts, migrat- 

 ing south in winter throughout the tropical regions, as far as Brazil and Peru. Bermudas; 

 whole of West Indies; Galapagos. 



"8p. Char. Small; wing3 long; toes connected at base, especially the out('r to (ho 

 middle toe. Front, throat, ring around the neck, and entire under pars white: a band of 

 deep black across the breast, extending around the ba<;k of the neck below the white ring. 

 Band from the base of the bill, under the eye, and wide frontal band above the wliitu 

 band, black. Upper parts a.shy brown; quills brownish blai^k, with thair shafts white In 

 middle portion, and occasionally a lanceolate white spot along the shafts of the shorter pri- 

 maries: shorter tertiarles edged wilh white; greater coverts tipped with white. Middle 

 feathers of the tall ashy brown, with a wide subtorminal band of brownish black, and nar- 

 rowly tipped with white; two outer tail feathers white, others intermediate, like the mid- 

 dle, but widely tipped with white. Bill orange-yellow at base, black terminally ; legs pale 

 flesh color. Female similar, but rath 'r lighter colored. Young with the black replaced by 

 ashy brown, the feathers of the upper parts bordered with paler. Downu uoung. Above, 

 pale grayish brown, mottled with black; a frontal crescent, broad nuchal collar, and entire 

 lower parts white. 



"Total length, about 7 inches: wing, 4.75; fail. 2.15." 



•'Common diiiinf;; the mif-ialioiis, fjoiicrallv in small floiks. In 

 Kjtriiiji^ lilt; inigratiouH extend from .\]iril 2 )tli to May .'Kttli. and 

 in fall from July 3lHt to tli(( la.sl of Oololicr. 'Pin- 2il of July, 

 1873, I obtained several Bpecinicns of lliis six-cics near ('liicafro. 



