208 
NEW-YORK FAUNA-BIRDS. 
ORDER IV. GRALLiE. 
Bill various, but mostly straight and elongated, cylindrical or compressed, rarely 
flattened. Neck usually long. Legs and feet long and slender ; the former 
more or less naked above the knees. Toes usually three before and one 
behind; the posterior toe on a level with or more elevated than the rest. 
Tail short, of from ten to twenty feathers. 
FAMILY CJIA RA DR IDF. 
Bill short or moderate, compressed. Neck moderate. Eyes large. Feet rather short: nails 
small. Toes three or four; when the hind toe is present, it is very short, and articulated 
above the others. Wings moderate or long. Tail moderate. 
GENUS CHARADRIUS. Linnaeus. 
Bill shorter than the head, rather slender, straight, cylindrical, depressed at the base, some¬ 
what turgid at the tip. Head and eyes large. Feet three-toed, connected at the base by 
a membrane : naked part of the tarsus moderate. Wings long. Tail more or less rounded, 
of twelve feathers. 
AMERICAN RING PLOVER. 
Charadrius semipalmatus. 
PLATE LXXIX. FIG. 1T9. 
(STATE COLLECTION.) 
Tringa hialicula. Wilson, Am. Orn. Vol. 7, p. G5, pi. 59, fig. 3 (adult in spring). 
C. semipalmatus. Bonaparte, Ann. Lyc. N. Y. Vol. 2, p. 296- Id. Am. Orn. Vol. 4, p. 92, pi. 25, fig. 4 (young). 
C. id.. Seinipalmated Ring Plover. Nuttall, Man. Orn. Vol. 2, p. 24. 
C. id. Richardson, F. B A. Vol. 2, p. 367. Audobon, B. of A. Vol. 5, p. 218, pi. 320. 
Egialitcs id. Bonaparte, Geog. and Comp. List, p. 45. 
C. id. Giraud, Birds of Long island, p. 215. 
Characteristics. Toes connected at the base by a membrane. Brownish ash above. Front, 
collar, ancLbeneath white : frontlet and ring over the breast black. Bill 
and feet orange; the former black at tip. Sincipital band and auri- 
culars black. Length, 7'5. 
