SHORE BIRDS 161 



Bird," " Bead Bird," " Horse-foot Snipe," " Sand-runner," 

 " Calico-back," " Cliicaric," and " Chickling." The two lat- 

 ter names have reference to its rasping notes, "calico- 

 back" to the variegated plumage of the ujjper parts. 



In summer the adults are oddly pied above with black, 

 white, brown, and chestnut-red, but the red is totally want- 

 ing in winter. They differ from the true plovers in the 

 well developed hind toe and the strong claws, but chiefly 

 in the more robust feet, without the trace of web between 

 the toes. 



The eggs are greenish-drab in color, spotted, blotched, 

 and dotted irregularly and thickly with yellowish and 

 umber bro^^^l. The eggs are two or four, abruptly pyri- 

 form in shape. 



