lURDS OF ONTARIO. 33 



Genus ^GIALITIS. 



(274) Semipalmated Plover. (Ring Plover.) 

 (.4igialitls semipalmata.) 

 Common in spring from about the middle of IVIay to the end of the 

 first week in June, when it goes north to breed. In July they re'turn and 

 are again abundant until the end of September, sometimes remaining 

 even later. It has occasionally been found nesting in this Province. 



i2'^7) Piping Plover. 



-(^gialitis meloda.) 



A regular but not a common summer resident. 



They arrive early in May and probably leave as soon as the young 

 can fly, for I have never found them in the autumn. 



A somewhat doubtful variety of this species, Al. m. circumcincta, 

 has been taken in Toronto occasionally. 



(*) (278J Snowy Plover. 



(^gialitis nivosa.) 

 Only two specimens have been taken in the Province to my know- 

 ledge. One mentioned by Mr. Mcllwraith and the other now in the 

 possession of Mr. J. H. Ames, of Toronto. 



Family APHRIZID^^. (The Turnstones.) 



Toes four, not webbed, the hinder short, well developed ; tarsus 

 scutellate in front ; legs rather long ; wings long and pointed ; tail short ; 

 bill rather short. 



Genus ARENARIA. 



(283) Turnstone. (Redshank.) 

 (Arenaria interpres.) 



Very abundant at some points along the lake shores in spring; par- 

 ticularly so in some seasons on the sandbar near Toronto and on Bur- 

 lingtort Beach near Hamilton. 



Arrives about the twenty-fifth of May and remains until the middle 

 of June. In the autumn they are never common. A few in immature 

 plumage return this way about the first of August and remain until the 

 middle of September. Breeds on the Arctic coast from Hudson's Bay 

 westward. 



Order GALLIN^E. (The Gallinaceous Birds.) 



Bill short, stout, convex, horny, not constricted, nostrils scaled or 

 feathered ; cutting edge of upper mandible overlapping the lower. Head 

 often partly or wholly naked, sometimes with fleshy processes. Legs 



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