SPECIES 2. C. HMTICULA.* 

 RING PLOVER. 



[Plate LIX. Fig. 3.] 



Arct. Zool. p. 485, JVo. 401. La petit Pluvier a collier, BUFF. 

 vin, 90. BEWICK, i, 326. PEALE'S Museum, JVo. 4150.t 



IN a preceding part of this workj a bird by this name has 

 been figured and described, under the supposition that it was 

 the Ring Plover, then in its summer dress; but which, not- 

 withstanding its great resemblance to the present, I now sus- 

 pect to be a different species. Fearful of perpetuating error, and 

 anxious to retract, where this may inadvertently have been the 

 case, I shall submit to the consideration of the reader the rea- 

 sons on which my present suspicions are founded. 



The present species, or true Ring Plover, and also the for- 

 mer, or light coloured bird, both arrive on the seacoast of New 

 Jersey late in April. The present kind continues to be seen in 

 flocks until late in May, when they disappear on their way far- 

 ther north; the light-coloured bird remains during the summer, 

 forms its nest in the sand, and generally produces two broods 

 in the season. Early in September the present species returns 

 in flocks as before; soon after this, the light-coloured kind go 

 off to the south, but the other remain a full month later. Eu- 

 ropean writers inform us, that the Ring Plover has a sharp 

 twittering note, and this account agrees exactly with that of 

 the present; the light coloured species, on the contrary, has a 

 peculiarly soft and musical note, similar to the tone of a German 



* Tringa hiaticula, in the original edition, which with Prince Musignano, 

 we consider as a typographical error. 



t Charadrius semtpa/mafw, BONAPARTE, Ann. Lye, Nat Hist. N. Y. Vol. u, 

 p.296. 



| See preceding species. 



