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the lower fore-neck being occupied by the anterior portion of the brown- 

 ish grey pectoral band. 



Back: Greyish dove color, shading into deeper greyish brown on the 

 median upper tail coverts, the lateral upper tail coverts being white. 



Tail : Central rectrices dark blackish brown, with conspicuous broad 

 white margins to the outer webs, decreasing to disappearance at the ter- 

 minal ends of the vanes, the inner vanes bordered with a hair line of 

 white. The next pair with white preponderating on the outer vanes, and 

 a hair line of white on the inner vanes. The rest of the rectrices chiefly 

 white on both vanes, and dusted or shaded slightly on the outer vanes 

 with smoky brown. 



Wings : Coverts like the back, greyish dove color, the greater series 

 tipped with white forming a wing bar. Bastard wing and primary coverts 

 blackish brown, the inner primary coverts being tipped with white. Pri- 

 mary quills blackish brown on their exposed surfaces, shading into pale 

 greyish on their inner webs. The inner primaries shading into whitish on 

 a portion of their outer webs. All the primary quills with subterminal 

 white shafts, which extend well down on the feathers. Secondaries white 

 at their bases, becoming brown near the terminal portion of the outer webs, 

 this shading decreasing in area on each feather, till inner ones are quite 

 white. The innermost long secondaries concolor with the back. 



Lower parts : Chiefly white ; a broad light smoky brown band occupy- 

 ing the region of the lower fore-neck and breast. Under wing coverts 

 and axillaries white. Under tail coverts white, shaded irregularly with 

 smoky brown. 



Bill, black (Hatcher). 



Feet and legs, pale orange yellow. 



Iris, "pink" (J. Young). 



Geographical Range. — Patagonia. 



The naturalists of the Princeton Expeditions procured a single individ- 

 ual of this apparently rare plover, which is cited in detail below. But 

 one other individual, the skin of an adult, without sex data, is in the 

 collections of the British Museum of Natural History. It is not diff"er- 

 ent from the one here described, save that it measures a little smaller in 

 size. Little seems to have been observed or recorded of the life his- 



