1,-,r, WILSON'S PLOVER. 



in extent; the bill is black, stout, and an inch long, the upper 

 mandible projecting considerably over the lower; front white, 

 passing on each side to the middle of the eye above, and bounded 

 by a band of black of equal breadth; lores black; eyelids white; 

 eye large and dark; from the middle of the eye, backwards, 

 the stripe of white becomes duller, and extends for half an inch; 

 the crown, hind-head and auriculars, are drab olive; the chin, 

 throat, and sides of the neck for an inch, pure white, passing 

 quite round the neck, and narrowing to a point behind; the 

 upper breast below this is marked with a broad band of jet 

 black; the rest of the lower parts pure white; upper parts pale 

 olive drab; along the edges of the auriculars, and hind-head, 

 the plumage, where it joins the white, is stained with raw terra 

 sienna; all the plumage is darkest in the centre; the tertials are 

 fully longer than the primaries, the latter brownish black, the 

 shafts and edges of some of the middle ones white; secondaries, 

 and greater coverts, slightly tipped with white; the legs are of 

 a pale flesh colour; toes bordered with a narrow edge; claws 

 and ends of the toes black; the tail is even, a very little longer 

 than the wings, and of a blackish olive colour, with the excep- 

 tion of the two exterior feathers, which are whitish, but gene- 

 rally only the two middle ones are seen. 



The female differs in having no black on the forehead, lores, 

 or breast, these parts being pale olive. * 



Since publishing the foregoing, Mr. T. R. Peale and myself, 

 in an excursion, in the month of May, on the coast of New 

 Jersey, found this species to be pretty common, in the vicinity 

 of Brigantine beach. We also observed them in various places 

 between Great Egg-harbour and Long-beach. G. Ord. 



* From Mr. Ord's supplementary volume. 



