212 THE KILDEER PLOVER. 



tips and those of most of the primaries white, as are those of the primary and 

 secondary coverts. Rump and upper tail-coverts bright yellowish-red. Tail- 

 feathers of the same colour at the base, the middle feathers brown, all with a 

 broad subterminal band of black, the tips white, those of the four middle 

 feathers pale reddish; the outer feather on each side white, with three black 

 bands on the inner web. 



Length to end of tail 10 inches, to end of wings 9, to end of claws 9|; 

 extent of wings 20; wing from flexure 6^; tail 4; bill along the back |§, 

 along the edge \^l tarsus 1 T 5 2; middle toe \\, its claw T 3 2. Weight 5§ oz. 



Adult Female in summer. 



The female resembles the male. 



The mouth is exceedingly narrow, its width being only 2 twelfths. The 

 palate has two longitudinal ridges, and anteriorly a few very prominent pa- 

 pillae. The tongue 7 twelfths long, very narrow, deeply channelled above, 

 with involute edges. The oesophagus is 3 inches 10 twelfths long, 2 twelfths 

 in width; the proventriculus 5J twelfths. The stomach is broadly elliptical, 

 10 twelfths long, 8^ twelfths in breadth; its lateral muscles very large; the 

 epithelium thick, with prominent longitudinal rugae. The proventricular 

 glands form a belt 6^ twelfths in breadth. The intestine is 14^ inches long, 

 its width 2 twelfths. Cceca 1 inch 9 twelfths long, their greatest width 1 J 

 twelfths; their distance from the extremity lj inches. The trachea is 2 

 inches 9 twelfths long, from 2 twelfths to 1-| twelfths in breadth, flattened; 

 the rings feeble, about 90 in number. Bronchi of moderate width and about 

 15 half rings. The lateral muscles thin, the sterno-tracheal slender. There 

 is a single pair of inferior laryngeal muscles, or a prolongation of the lateral 

 muscles, going to the first bronchial ring. The individual examined is a 

 male. 



