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  NEW 
  YORK 
  STATE 
  MUSEUM 
  

  

  Ochthodromus 
  wilsonius 
  (Ord) 
  

   Wilson 
  Plover 
  

  

  Charadrius 
  wilsonia 
  Ord. 
  Wilson's 
  Ornithology. 
  1814. 
  9: 
  77. 
  pl- 
  73. 
  %• 
  5 
  

  

  DeKay. 
  Zool. 
  N. 
  Y. 
  1844. 
  pt 
  2, 
  p. 
  211, 
  fig. 
  176 
  

   A 
  e 
  g 
  i 
  a 
  1 
  i 
  t 
  i 
  s 
  wilsonia 
  A. 
  O. 
  U. 
  Check 
  List. 
  Ed. 
  2. 
  1895. 
  No. 
  280 
  

  

  ochiho' 
  dromus 
  , 
  Gr. 
  ox^o<i, 
  bank, 
  Bp6fjL<y:, 
  running; 
  wilson'ius, 
  in 
  honor 
  of 
  

  

  Alexander 
  Wilson 
  

  

  Description. 
  Bill 
  rather 
  long, 
  stout; 
  tail 
  nearly 
  square; 
  upper 
  parts 
  

   pale 
  brownish 
  gray; 
  band 
  on 
  the 
  forecrown 
  and 
  belt 
  across 
  the 
  forebreast 
  

  

  black 
  ; 
  loral 
  stripe 
  blackish 
  ; 
  pri- 
  

   iTiaries 
  and 
  central 
  tail 
  feathers 
  

   blackish; 
  frontlet, 
  line 
  over 
  the 
  

   eye, 
  throat, 
  collar 
  around 
  the 
  

   neck, 
  entire 
  under 
  parts, 
  and 
  

   outer 
  tail 
  feathers 
  white; 
  the 
  

   latter 
  marked 
  with 
  dusky 
  toward 
  

   the 
  ends 
  ; 
  nape 
  and 
  sides 
  of 
  occi- 
  

   put 
  tinged 
  with 
  ocherous 
  next 
  the 
  

   white 
  collar; 
  legs 
  flesh-colored; 
  

   eyelids 
  uncolored; 
  bill 
  black. 
  

  

  Length 
  7.25-8 
  inches; 
  wing 
  

   4.5-5 
  ; 
  tail 
  2; 
  tarsus 
  1.1-1.2; 
  mid- 
  

   dle 
  toe 
  and 
  claw 
  .9 
  ; 
  bill 
  .8-. 
  9. 
  

  

  The 
  Wilson 
  plover 
  was 
  never 
  

   common 
  on 
  the 
  coast 
  of 
  this 
  

   Fromspeci- 
  State 
  aud 
  although 
  DeKay 
  

   speaks 
  of 
  it 
  as 
  breeding, 
  there 
  

   seems 
  to 
  be 
  no 
  definite 
  record 
  of 
  its 
  nest 
  and 
  eggs 
  ever 
  having 
  been 
  found 
  in 
  

   New 
  York. 
  The 
  following 
  are 
  the 
  records 
  of 
  its 
  occurrence 
  for 
  the 
  last 
  60 
  3'ears 
  : 
  

  

  Flatlands, 
  L. 
  I. 
  Collection 
  of 
  L. 
  I. 
  Hist. 
  Soc. 
  

  

  Penn 
  Van, 
  N. 
  Y. 
  Spring 
  1868. 
  Birds 
  Cen. 
  N. 
  Y. 
  p. 
  30 
  

  

  Rockaway, 
  L. 
  I. 
  July 
  i, 
  1872. 
  Lawrence, 
  Forest 
  and 
  Stream, 
  10: 
  235 
  

  

  Buffalo, 
  N. 
  Y. 
  Rare 
  migrant. 
  Bergtold, 
  Birds 
  of 
  Buffalo, 
  1889. 
  p. 
  9 
  

  

  Far 
  Rockaway, 
  L. 
  L 
  May 
  17, 
  1879. 
  (9). 
  Lawrence, 
  Auk, 
  2: 
  273; 
  Forest 
  and 
  Stream, 
  

  

  12: 
  348 
  

   Good 
  Ground, 
  L. 
  L 
  May 
  28, 
  1879. 
  (9). 
  Dvitcher, 
  N. 
  O. 
  C. 
  Bui. 
  4: 
  242 
  ; 
  5: 
  186 
  

   Oneida 
  Lake, 
  N. 
  Y. 
  1880. 
  Ralph 
  & 
  Bagg, 
  Birds 
  of 
  Oneida 
  County, 
  p. 
  115 
  

   Shinnccock 
  bay, 
  L. 
  1. 
  May 
  15, 
  1884. 
  (9). 
  Dutch-er, 
  Auk, 
  3: 
  438 
  

  

  Wilson 
  plover. 
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  c 
  h 
  t 
  li 
  o 
  il 
  r 
  o 
  m 
  u 
  s 
  wilsonius 
  (Ord) 
  

   men 
  in 
  State 
  Museum. 
  ? 
  nat. 
  size 
  

  

  