NOISY PLOVER. 
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eyelids red : eyes black : the forehead is white : 
between the eyes, across the head, a bar of black, 
passing on each side to the hind head : the chin 
and fore-part of the neck is white ; at the lower 
part of the neck the white encircles it like a ring, 
and is accompanied by a bar of black all round : 
on the breast is another black bar, and except 
these, all the under parts are white : the hind part 
of the head, neck, and upper part of the body and 
wdngs, are dusky brown : rump rusty orange : the 
feathers very long : some of the feathers which 
fall over the greater cpiills fringed with white ; the 
last black ; a few^ of the outer ones have white 
shafts : tail the colour of the rump, much rounded 
in shape, near the end barred with black, the 
tip white : legs pale yellow : male and female 
much alike.” 
This is a restless noisy species, setting up its 
cry the moment any one approaches : it is confined 
to America, being found at New York, Carolina, 
and Virginia ; at the latter place it remains all 
the year, and is called kill-deer, from its note 
resembling that word: it migrates to New York 
in spring, where it breeds, and lays three or four 
eggs ; returns south in the autumn. 
