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a black line above the forehead and the sides of the breast with 

 large black patches not connected ; above pale grayish, below pure 



white Snowy Plover. 



6. Bill yellow at base and black at tip, and sides of head not black; 

 sides of breast with black patches, which are connected by a nar- 

 row breast-line; a black crown-line; back- pale grayish. ... 

 Belted Piping Plover. 



270. Squatarola squatarola (Linnaeus) — Black-bellied Plover. 



A regular migrant, but not usually common. However, F. W. Powell 

 records an instance in which he saw thousands on the Platte river, 

 May 21, 1883 (See Cooke's Bird Migr. in Miss.Val., p. 98). Migrating 

 late in April and early in May and in September and October. Sarpy 

 county, Lincoln, Omaha, Alliance, Atkinson, Neligh, Alda, North 

 Platte. Breeds in Arctic regions. 



272. Charadrius dominicus Mueller — Golden Plover. 



Formerly abundant, in flocks of hundreds, still rather common ; not 

 recorded west of Holt county. Found from the middle of April to 

 the middle of May and in September and October. Also breeds in 

 Arctic regions. 



273. *Oxyechus vociferus (Linneaus) — Killdeer. 



An abundant migrant, and also abundant summer resident in the 

 sand-hill region, a common breeder over the rest of the state, especially 

 northward. Arrives early in March and remains till November. 



274. Aegialitis semipalmata Bonaparte — Semipalmated Plover. 



A common migrant. Seen during May and September and the first 

 half of October. Breeds in British America. Not reported west of 

 Neligh. 



277a. *Aegialitis meloda circumcincta Ridgway — Belted Piping Plover. 

 A fairly common migrant; breeds about the lakes in the sand-hill 

 region, along the Niobrara river, in northern Nebraska, on the Loup 

 at Dannebrog, along the Platte, and perhaps on any .of the rivers of 

 ■ the state where are the sand-bars on which it nests. Aughey recorded 

 it breeding in Dakota county in July, 1866, where he found two nests. 

 Arrives in May and departs during the latter part of September. 



278. Aegialitis nivosa Cassin — Snowy Plover. 



This species was included in Bruner's Notes on Nebraska Birds 

 based on the seeing of a flock of what was supposed to be this plover 

 in Holt county in the spring of 1885. But the first definite record, 

 and so far the only one, was established by the taking of two specimens 

 at the lake near Lincoln, May 17, 1903, by Swenk. It must be looked 

 upon as a rare straggler from the west. 



281. Podasocys montanus (Townsend) — Mountain Plover. 



Not uncommon in extreme western Nebraska, where Bruner has 



