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  YORK 
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  mounted 
  and 
  discovered 
  the 
  eggs. 
  The 
  following 
  day 
  I 
  visited 
  the 
  locality 
  

   to 
  photograph 
  the 
  nest, 
  but 
  although 
  I 
  had 
  received 
  careful 
  directions 
  no 
  

   bird 
  or 
  eggs 
  could 
  be 
  found. 
  The 
  next 
  day 
  I 
  returned 
  with 
  more 
  explicit 
  

   directions 
  and 
  walked 
  directly 
  to 
  the 
  eggs, 
  but 
  although 
  they 
  were 
  quite 
  

   warm 
  no 
  bird 
  was 
  seen. 
  The 
  few 
  nests 
  which 
  I 
  have 
  found 
  were 
  discovered 
  

   b}^ 
  coming 
  suddenly 
  over 
  a 
  rise 
  of 
  ground 
  and 
  starting 
  the 
  old 
  bird 
  before 
  

   she 
  had 
  had 
  time 
  to 
  steal 
  away. 
  The 
  eggs 
  are 
  four 
  in 
  number, 
  pyriform 
  in 
  

   shape, 
  of 
  a 
  dull 
  creamy 
  buff, 
  thickly 
  speckled 
  and 
  blotched 
  with 
  black 
  and 
  

   blackish 
  brown, 
  the 
  dimensions 
  averaging 
  1.5 
  x 
  1.05 
  inches 
  . 
  

  

  Aegialitis 
  semipalmata 
  (Bonaparte) 
  

  

  Semipalmated 
  Plover 
  : 
  

  

  Plate 
  30 
  

  

  Charadrius 
  semipalmatus 
  Bonaparte. 
  Nat. 
  Sci. 
  Jour. 
  Phila. 
  -1&25V-, 
  5; 
  98 
  

  

  DeKay. 
  Zool. 
  N. 
  Y. 
  1844. 
  pt 
  2, 
  p. 
  208, 
  fig. 
  179 
  

   Aegialitis 
  semipalmata 
  A. 
  O. 
  U. 
  Check 
  List. 
  Ed. 
  2. 
  1895. 
  No. 
  274 
  

  

  aegiall'tis, 
  Gr. 
  aiytaAtVts, 
  long-shoreman, 
  worker 
  by 
  the 
  beach; 
  semi- 
  

  

  palmd'ta, 
  Lat., 
  partly 
  webbed 
  : 
  

  

  Description. 
  Bill 
  short; 
  outer 
  and 
  middle 
  toes 
  webbed 
  to 
  the 
  second 
  joint; 
  

   tail 
  shorter 
  than 
  the 
  Killdeer's, 
  less 
  rounded; 
  upper 
  parts, 
  including 
  center 
  of 
  

   tail 
  coverts 
  and 
  tail 
  feathers 
  brownish 
  gray; 
  outermost 
  tail 
  feathers 
  white; 
  

   other 
  tail 
  feathers 
  with 
  subterminal 
  zone 
  of 
  blackish; 
  a 
  black 
  ring 
  around 
  

   the 
  base 
  of 
  the 
  neck; 
  throat 
  white 
  extending 
  in 
  a 
  collar 
  around 
  the 
  neck 
  in 
  

   front 
  of 
  the 
  black 
  ring; 
  a 
  white 
  frontlet 
  surrounded 
  by 
  the 
  black 
  band 
  

   extending 
  over 
  the 
  forecrown 
  from 
  eye 
  to 
  eye, 
  and 
  a 
  black 
  stripe 
  extending 
  

   over 
  the 
  base 
  of 
  the 
  bill 
  and 
  underneath 
  the 
  eyes; 
  under 
  parts 
  white; 
  white 
  

   wing 
  stripe 
  less 
  pronounced 
  than 
  the 
  Killdeer's; 
  bill 
  black 
  at 
  tip, 
  orange 
  at 
  

   base; 
  eyehds 
  bright 
  orange; 
  legs 
  pale 
  flesh 
  color. 
  Winter 
  and 
  young: 
  

   Have 
  the 
  black 
  mostly 
  replaced 
  by 
  brownish 
  gray, 
  the 
  latter 
  with 
  buffv 
  

   white 
  edgings 
  above. 
  

  

  Length 
  6.5-7.8 
  inches; 
  extent 
  15-16; 
  wing 
  4.7-5; 
  tail 
  2.25; 
  tarsus 
  

   .9-. 
  95; 
  middle 
  toe 
  and 
  claw 
  .9; 
  bill 
  .5. 
  

  

  Range 
  and 
  migration. 
  This 
  species 
  breeds 
  from 
  Labrador 
  to 
  the 
  

   arctic 
  coasts 
  of 
  America 
  and 
  winters 
  from 
  the 
  West 
  Indies 
  and 
  Gulf 
  States 
  

   to 
  South 
  America. 
  In 
  New 
  York 
  it 
  is 
  a 
  common 
  transient 
  visitant, 
  arriving 
  

  

  