366 BLACK-BELLIED PLOVER. 
greenish reflections ; lower part of abdomen, thighs, vent, lining of the 
wings, and under tail-coverts, pure white, the exterior vanes of the last 
spotted with brown black ; sides under the wings very pale ash, with 
faint ashy brown bars ; upper tail-coverts white, with narrow ashy 
brown bars, which increase in size, and become darker, up the rump ; 
the upper part of the inner webs of the primaries white ; bill, legs and 
feet, of a. shining black ; no golden or orange colored spots. The parts 
not mentioned a<rreein"; with those of the foregoing. 
Another adult male, shot at Egg Harbor, on the 10th of May, was 
twelve inches in length, and had its cheeks, lores, throat, middle of the 
breast and belly, as far as the thighs, black ; the long feather's of the 
sides, at the junction of the wings, also black ; feathers of the crown 
ash, centered with black, and tipped with white ; back brownish black, 
plumage broadly tipped with white ; wing-coverts brown ash and black, 
broadly spotted and tipped with white ; tail white, broadly barred with 
black ; no golden spots. 
An adult female, shot at Egg Harbor, on the 26th of May, was 
twelve inches in length ; upper parts olive brown, spotted with black 
and white, the long feathers of the sides, at the junction of the Avings, 
black ; Avings crossed with a broad band of white, immediately under 
their coverts, spreading over their shafts ; secondaries pale olive, edged 
and tipped with white ; primaries and their coverts, black ; throat and 
sides of the neck white, spotted with dark olive ; breast and belly, as 
far as the thighs, black, intermixed Avith white ; legs and feet deep 
purplish slate. The black of the lower parts was not so deep as that 
of the foregoing male. Her eggs were small. 
A young male, shot at Egg Harbor, in the month of October, had 
whitish spots on a broAvnish black ground ; crown nearly black, spotted 
with broAvnish yellow ; breast, throat and eyebroAvs, pure white ; the 
long feathers of the sides, at the junction of the wings, black ; legs and 
feet lead-colored. 
A young bird in Peale's collection, supposed to be a male of the first 
year, had its head, neck, and whole upper parts, brown ash or dark 
gray, spotted with white ; breast white, with pale brown ash inter- 
mixed ; loAver part of the abdomen, and under tail-coverts, white ; tail 
white, with large bars of ashy broAvn ; lining of the wings white ; the 
long feathers of the sides, at the junction of the wings, dusky ; prima- 
ries paler than in the adult, but similarly marked with white. It had 
no golden or orange colored spots. 
I have little doubt that the Black-bellied Plover described by Pen- 
nant as common at Hudson's Bay, and called there Hawk's-eye, is this 
species, although authors record it among the synonymes of the Golden 
Plover, in its spring dress. The hind toe of this species is very small 
and slender ; and in dried specimens it adheres so closely to the tarsus 
