DIRECTORY TO BIRDS OF EASTERN NORTH AMERICA. 95 



1. WILSON'S PLOVER, C. WILSONINUS. 8.00; bill/ 

 .90; male, forehead, superciliary stripe, and beneath, white; 

 fore part of crown, streak from bill to eye and continuous 

 band on breast, black ; light ashy-brown above ; wings and 

 tail, much as in d, 3. Female, differs in having the black re- 

 placed by brownish-gray with more or less light rusty on 

 breast ring. Young, differs from female in having the feath- 

 ers above bordered with lighter. Downy young, pale gray- 

 ish buff above spotted with black, forehead, sides of head, 

 collar on hind neck, hand of wing, and beneath, white; spot 

 behind eye, black, plate 11, B. Breeds from Long Island 

 southward through the Bahamas and West Indies, and along 

 the Gulf Coast in May ; migrates south in Sep. ; winters from 

 the Fla. Keys and the Bahamas south through the We-st In- 

 dies to S. A. ; casual as far north as Nova Scotia in summer. 

 Associate together in small flocks or with other small plovers 

 and shore birds. Flight, rather heavy. Call note, a single 

 short but loud whistle; during the breeding season a rattling 

 cry is given. Very common. 



f. Ringless Plovers. Podasocys. 



Larger than e; bill, a little shorter and much more slen- 

 der; legs, much longer; no black band on breast; sexes simi- 

 lar. 



1. MOUNTAIN PLOVER, P. MONTANA. 8.50; bill, .85; 

 similar in general color to e, 1, but the black on breast is re- 

 placed by a more or less continuous tingeing of slaty-brown ; 

 in winter the black markings of head are replaced by slaty- 

 brown. Breeds on the Western Plains from Kansas north- 

 ward to the British boundary in May; occurs on dry plains 

 and feeds largely on insects; migrates south in late fall to 

 winter in central and southern Cal., Lower Cal., Texas, and 

 northern Mexico; accidental on Key West, Fla. Note, alow, 

 pleasing whistle. 



F. TURNSTONES. Arenariidae. 



Medium sized birds with short bills, pointed and hard at 

 tip; wings long, folding beyond tip of short, slightly rounded 



