KEY TO TlIK WATER BIRDS OF FLORIDA. 



295 



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

 Length, 7.45; Wing, 4.60; Tail, i.go; Tarsus, 1.16; Bill, .90. 



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. 



/Kiiialitis wilsonia. 



/Egialitis moiitaiia. 



Subgenus PODASOCVS Coues. 



>EQIALITI5 MONTANA {Toions.). 

 Mountain Plover. 



Above uniform Inownish gray ; feathers occasionally edged with tawny Ijrown ; 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 brown, 

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



Length, S.75 ; Wing, 6; Tarsus. 1.60; Bill. .95. 

 " Temperate North America from the great plains westward : accidental 

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



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

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



The eggs are thi-ee to four in number, of oli\e brown color dotted and 

 marked with brown. 



