290 KEY TO THE WATER BIRDS OF FLORIDA. 
NUPENIUS BOREALIS (ors7.). 
Eskimo Curlew. Dough Bird. 
Adult in summer: Bill curved down- 
a ward, general plumage above mottled black 
and tawny; chin whitish; throat and under 
parts tawny buff, marked on the throat with 
dark brown and on the breast with arrow-like brown mark- 
ings; flanks and sides of the body tawny, the arrow-like 
marks being much heavier and larger; top of the head show- 
ing no central stripe of buffy white. 
Adult in winter: Vacking the tawny color of the summer 
plumage; more whitish on the under parts, otherwise the 
markings being similar. 
Length, 13; Wing, 8.10; Tarsus, 2; Bill, 2.75 to 3.50. 
It ranges from the Arctic regions, where it 
breeds, southward to South America. At one 
time it was a very abundant bird on our coast 
during the migrations, but is becoming less com- 
mon every year. It prefers the fields to the beaches, being often found in 
company with the Golden Plover. It is comparatively rare in Florida, but 
occurs regularly during migrations. The eggs are pale olive gray spotted 
with dark brown, mostly at the larger end. 
Famity CHARADRIIDE.  PLovers.' 
Genus CHARADRIUS Linn. 
Suscenus SQUATAROLA Cvv. 
CHARADRIUS SQUATAROLA (Linn.). 
Black-bellied Plover. Beetle Head. 
Adult male in summer: Upper parts smoky black; feathers edged with dull white; breast 
black except in highest plumage, showing traces of whitish on the feathers ; abdomen and under . 
tail coverts white; forehead white; axillars smoky black. 
Adult in winter: Upper plumage brownish mottled with gray; under parts white; breast 
and sides streaked with ashy brown; bill black. 
Length, 11.25; Wing, 7.45; Tarsus, 1.85; Bill, 1.10. 
