154 RING PLOVKH. 



band from the upper mandible, covering the auriculars, also 

 black; back ?> scapulars, and wing-coverts, of a brownish ash co- 

 lour; wing quills dusky black, marked with an oval spot of 

 white about the middle of each; tail olive, deepening into black, 

 and tipt with white; legs dull yellow; eye dark hazel, eyelids 

 yellow. 



This bird is said to make no nest, but to lay four eggs, of a 

 pale ash colour, spotted with black, which she deposites on the 

 ground.* The eggs of the light-coloured species, formerly de- 

 scribed, are of a pale cream colour, marked with small round 

 dots of black, as if done with a pen. 



The Ring Plover, according to Pennant, inhabits America, 

 down to Jamaica and the Brazils. Is found in summer in Green- 

 land ; migrates thence in autumn. Is common in every part of 

 Russia and Siberia. Was found by the navigators as low as 

 Owyhee, one of the Sandwich islands, and as light-coloured as 

 those of the highest latitudes, t 



* Bewick. tArct. Zool. p. 485. 



