RING PLOVER 



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the lower parts pure white ; fore part of the crown black; band from 

 the upper mandible covering the auriculars, also black; back, sca^ 

 pulars and wing coverts of a brownish ash color; wing quills dusky 

 black, marked with an oval spot of white about the middle of each; 

 tail olive, deepening into black, and tipt with white ; legs dull yel- 

 low ; eye dark hazel, eyelids yellow. 



This bird is said to make no nest, but to lay four eggs of a 

 pale ash color spotted with black, which she deposits on the 

 ground.^ The eggs of the light-colored species, formerly de- 

 scribed, are of a pale cream color, marked with small round dots 

 of black, as if done with a pen. 



The Ring Plover, according to Pennant, inhabits America 

 down to Jamaica and the Brasils. Is found in summer in Green- 

 land; migrates from thence in autumn. Is common in every part 

 of Russia and Siberia. Was found by the navigators as low as 

 Owyhee, one of the Sandwich islands, and as light-colored as those 

 of the highest latitudes.! 



* Bewick. 



t Aret. Zool. p. 48|>, 



