KEY TO THE WATER BIRDS OF FLORIDA. 295 
Female and immature birds have the pectoral band brown, and no black on the head, 
Length, 7.45; Wing, 4.60; Tail, 1.90; Tarsus, 1.163; Bill, .go. 
’ This is rather a Southern species, but stragglers have been taken as far 
north as Nova Scotia. 
It.breeds from Virginia southward and is a common bird in Florida. 
The eggs are usually three in number, dull white dotted and spotted with 
chocolate brown. 
/fgialitis wilsonia. Aégialitis montana. 
Suscenus PODASOCYS Cougs. 
AEGIALITIS MONTANA (Zowizs.). 
Mountain Plover. 
Above uniform brownish gray; feathers occasionally edged with tawny brown; under parts 
entirely white with the exception of the breast, which at times shows a tinge of gray; a black 
loral stripe extending from the bill to the eye, and a black superciliary stripe back of the head, 
showing a patch of black; shafts of the first primary white; wing coverts grayish brown, 
some of them tipped with white ; bill black ; legs pale brown. 
Length, 8.75; Wing, 6; Tarsus, 1.60; Bill, .95. 
‘*Temperate North America from the great plains westward; accidental 
in Florida.” (A.0.U.) 
This species has been recorded from Florida, but it is not common in 
the State and must be considered as merely an accidental straggler. 
The eggs are three to four in number, of olive brown color dotted and 
marked with brown. 
