186 SHORE BIRDS. 



purple; upper and lower tail coverts, rufous; 

 tail, black with basal half and tip, sides of 

 head, neck and belly, white; in winter the 

 throat is black. Active and noisy. Northern 

 parts of Eastern Hemisphere; occasional in 

 Greenland and on Long Inland. 



Fig. 151 



Louisiana Heron. 1-6. 



134. BLACK-BELLIED PLOVER. 

 Our largest Plover, 12. Summer, lower 

 parts and sides of head, black; forehead, 

 sides of breast, upper and under tail coverts, 

 white; above irregularly spotted with dusky 

 and white, fig. 133; bill and feet, black; in 

 winter gray above, white beneath. Young, 

 like last but have the back spotted with 



