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great numbers to the small fresh water ponds in the vicinity of Fort Steilacoom, where they 

 remain during the summer and rear their young. This proverbially noisy, restless bird retains 

 all the peculiar habits on the Pacific that so distinguish it in other localities. S. 



The killdeer plover is a common summer resident in the interior of the Territory, arriving 

 at Puget Sound early in May, and remaining until October, raising its young during the season. 

 I have never seen this species on the coast. C. 



AEGIALITIS MONTANUS, (Towns.) C as sin. 



Rocky Mountain Plover. 



Charadrius montanus, TOWNS. J. A. N. Sc. VII, 1837, 192. IB. Narr. 1839, 349. AUD. Orn. Biog. IV, 1838, 362 ; 



pi. 350. IB. Syn. 223. IB. Birds Am. V, 1842, 213 ; pi. 318. 

 Aegialtes montanus, BON. List. 1838. 



Aegiditis montanus. BAIRD and CASSIN, Gen. Hep. Birds, 693. 



SP. CH. Forehead, stripe over the eye, and entire under parts, white, generally tinged with dull yellowish and ashy on the 

 breast. Another band of black in front above the white band ; back of the neck and sides dull brownish fulvous ; other 

 upper parts ashy brown, usually with many feathers edged and tipped with fulvous or rufous ; upper tail coverts lighter. 

 Quills dark brown, with their shafts white, tail brown with a wide subterminal band of brownish black and tipped with white. 

 Shorter primaries with a white space on their outer webs, forming a patch of white on the wing ; under wing coverts and 

 axillary feathers pure silky white. Bill black, legs yellow. Younger, without the black band in front, and with the white 

 band tinged with dull yellow, entire upper parts with the feather edged and tipped with dull ashy rufous Total length, 

 about 9 inches ; wing, 6 ; tail, 3 inches. 

 Sab Western North America. 



I obtained a specimen of this bird, shot in a &quot;prairie dog town&quot; on Milk river, Nebraska, and 

 have reason to believe that it is found in southern California and New Mexico. Not observed 

 by me in Washington or Oregon. Perhaps it may be found in summer in the interior of 

 southern Oregon towards Utah. The habits of the bird I obtained in Nebraska seem somewhat 

 to resemble those of the golden plover in apparently preferring dry open ground. 



I also saw a stuffed specimen in the collection of F. Gruber, San Francisco. S. 



AEGIALITIS SEMIPALMATUS, (Bon.) Cab. 



Ring Plover; Semi-palmatcd Plover. 



Charadrius semipalmatus, BON. Obs. Wils. 1825, No. 219. IB. Syn. 1828, 296. IB. Am. Orn. IV, 1832, 92 ; pi. 

 xxv. NUTTALL, Mann. II, 24 Sw. F. B. Am. II, 1831, 367. -Aco. Orn. Biog. IV, 

 1838, 256 : V, 579 ; pi. 330. IB. Syn. 224. 



Aegialitis semipalmatus, CAB. Cab. Journ. 1856, 425. BAIRD and CASSIN, Gen. Eep. Birds, 694. 

 Tringa hiaticula, WILSON, Am. Orn. VII, 1813, 65 ; pi. lix. 



FIGUKES. Wilson, Am. Orn. VII, pi. 59, fig. 3. And. B. of Am. pi. 330 ; oct. ed. V, pi. 320. Bonap. Am. Orn. IV, pi. 

 25, fig. 4. 



SP. CH. Small, -wings long, toes connected at base, especially the outer to the middle toe. Front, throat, ring around the 

 neck, and the upper parts, white, a band of deep black across the breast, extending around the back of the neck below the 

 white ring. Band from the base of the bill, under the eye, and wide frontal band above the white band, black. Upper parts 

 light ashy brown, with a tinge of olive ; quills brownish black, with their shafts white in the middle portion, and occasionally 

 a lanceolate white spot along the shafts of the shorter primaries ; shorter tertiaries edged with white ; lesser coverts tipped 

 with white. Middle feathers of the tail ashy olive brown, with a wide subterminal band of brownish black, and narrowly 

 tipped with white ; two outer tail feathers white, others intermediate, like the middle, but widely tipped with white. Bill 

 orange yellow, tipped with black ; legs yellow. Female similar, but rather lighter colored. Young without the black band 

 in front, and with the band across the breast ashy brown. 



Total length, about 7 inches ; extent, 15J ; wing, 4| ; tail, 2J inches ; iris brown ; bill orange and black ; feet black. 

 Hob. The whole of temperate North America. Common on the Atlantic. 



The ring plover passes through along the sea-coast of the Territory when migrating in the 



