196 KILDEER PLOVER. 



primaries. Tail rather long, much rounded or graduated, of twelve rather 

 broad rounded feathers. 



Bill black. Edges of eyelids bright red ; iris dark brown. Feet 

 light greyish-blue, the hind part of the tarsus pale flesh colour. Upper 

 part of the head, the back, the smaller wing-coverts, and the secondary 

 quills, yellowish-brown. Lower parts white. A brown bar over the 

 lower part of the forehead, and passing under the eye to the occiput ; 

 over this a white band on the forehead, surmounted by a brownish-black 

 band between the eyes ; behind the eyes also a short white band, ending 

 in light red. The middle of the neck is encircled with a broad brownish- 

 black collar, and on its lower pai't anteriorly between the wings is a nar- 

 rower band of the same colour. Primaries brownish-black, each with a 

 white mark, linear on the outer, enlarging on the inner quills. Seconda- 

 ries, excepting the inner, white, but most of them with a large patch of 

 blackish-brown towards the end ; their tips and those of most of the pri- 

 maries white, as are those of the primary and secondary coverts. Rump 

 and upper tail-coverts bright yellowish-red. Tail-feathers of the same 

 colour at the base, the middle feathers brown, all with a broad subtermi- 

 nal band of black, the tips white, those of the four middle feathers pale 

 reddish ; the outer feather on each side white, with three black bands on 

 the inner web. 



Length to end of tail 10 inches, to end of wings 9, to end of claws 9 2 i 

 extent of wings 20 ; wing from flexure 8| ; tail 4 ; bill along the back { §, 

 along the edge ^|*; tarsus 1/g ; middle toe \l, its claw ^'g. Weight 

 5| ounces. 



Adult Female in summer. Plate CCXXV. Fig. 2. 

 The Female resembles the Male. 



