CHABADBIin^ — CHABADSIINJE : PLOVER. 603 



variety ("perhaps only some individuals) with the black neclilace complete. Described from the 

 Headwaters of the Platte, in Nebraska, July ; probably breeding there. 



589. JE. hiati'cula. (Dimin. of Lat. hiatus, a gape ; hiaticida being a translati(jn of x'^poSpios, 

 churadrios, because the bird is found about the mouths Qiiatus) of rivers.) European King 

 Plover. Size of No. ."SSG, or rather larger, and general aspect «fche same; no evident web 

 between inner and middle toe, that between outer and middle only reaching to end of first joint 

 f>f the latter; no colored ring round eye; one description would answer for the head-markings 

 of both, but blacli bars very heavy; white touches on eye-lids. Upper parts hair-brown. 

 Primaries blackish-brown, the outer four or five with white only on the shafts for a space near 

 their ends, the wliite beginning to invade the webs on the fourth or fifth, and enlarging in 

 width with diminishing length on the rest. Secondaries white with A&vk ends of diminishing 

 length inwards, till one or two of the sh(jrt inner ones are almost entirely white ; the long flow- 

 ing innermost ones, however, like the back. Tail as in 2E. semipalmatus. Length about 

 7.50 ; wing 5.00 ; tail 2.45 ; bill 0.60, orange, with black tip ; tarsus 0.95 ; middle toe and claw 

 0.85 ; feet orange ; claws black. Young like that of .ZE. semipalmatus ; no black on vertex; 

 that of side of head and around neck dusky-gray ; whitish front, line over eye, and under eyelid ; 

 primaries quite dark with white spaces on shafts and webs well marked ; feathers of upper parts 

 with pale beady tips ; ends of even middle tail-feathers white. Widely distributed in the Old 

 World; Greenland; Cumberland Sound, N. A. (Description from a N. A. specimen.) 



590. ^E. curo'nicus. (Lat. curonicus, of Courland, on the Baltic.) European Lesser Ring 

 Plover. Closely resembling the last ; smaller ; black bands not so broad ; black of vertex 

 and auriculars bordered behind with white ; shaft of 1st primary alone white ; bill extremely 

 slender, black, yellow only at base of lower mandible ; legs yellowish flesh-color ; a colored 

 ring round eye. Length about 6.00; bill 0.60; wing 4.35 ; tail 2.30 ; tarsus 0.90. Inhabits 

 much of the Old World ; questionably N. Am., on the Pacific side. Young : Differs much as 

 young hiaticida does. Ring around neck dusky-gray; that on side of head chiefly reduced to 

 a loral stripe. No black across vertex ; white of forehead soiled. Upper parts darker than in 

 adult, in an eariy stage with pale or fulvous edgings of the feathers. {A. microrhynchus Ridg.) 



591. JE. cantia'nus nlvo'sus. (Lat. cawtowMs, Kentish ; Lat. «iTOSi(S, snowy (white).) Snowy 

 Ring Plover (J, in breeding dress: Above, pale ashy-gray, little darker than in ^'J. 

 melodus. Top of head with a fulvous tinge. A broad black coronal bar from eye to eye. 

 A narrower black post-ocular stripe, tending to meet its fello^v on nape, and thus encircle 

 the fulvous area. A broad black patch on each side of the breast ; no sign of its completion 

 above or below ; no complete black loral stripe (as in ^. cantianus), but indication of such 

 in a small dark patch on either side of base of upper mandible. Forehead, continuous with 

 line over eye, sides of head excepting the black post-ocular stripe, and whole under parts 

 excepting the black lateral breast-patches, snowy-white. No white ring complete around back 

 of neck. Primaries blackish, especially at bases and ends, the intermediate extent fuscous ; 

 shaft of the 1st white, of others white for a space ; nearly all the primaries bleaching toward 

 bases of inner webs, but only some (jf the inner ones with a white area on outer webs. 

 Primary coverts like the primaries, but whito-tipped. Greater coverts like the back, but 

 white-tipped. Secondaries dark brown, bleaching internally and basally in increasing extent 

 from without inwards, their shafts white along their respective white portions. Tertiaries like 

 back. Several intermediate tail-feathers like back, darkening toward ends ; two or three 

 lateral pairs entirely white ; all the feathers more pointed than usual. Bill slender and acute, 

 black. Legs black. Length 6.50-7.00; extent 13.50-14.00; wing 4.00-4.25; tail 2.00 or 

 less; bill 0.60; tarsus 1.00 ; middle toe and claw 0.75. In winter (young ?) : Upper plumage 

 rather darker than as above said, and less uniform, the individual feathers with pale edges. 

 Whole crown like back ; no black or fulvous on head ; forehead white ; lores .slightly dusky ;' 

 black of si.les of breast replaced by a patch of the color of the back. Bill black; tarsi livid 



