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PPwECOCIAL GRALLATORES — LIMICOLiE. 
narrow, the breast by a broader, band of black (or grayish in young and winter dress). 
In summer, band across fore part of crown, auriculars, narrow jugular band, and broad 
pectoral zone black ; pileuni and nape usually rufous, more or less mixed with brown- 
ish gray centrally (sometimes almost wholly grayish, like back). In winter, pileum and 
nape brownish gray, like the back, and all the black markings replaced by grayish. 
Wing, 4.75-5.00; culmen, .65-. 75 ; depth of bill at base, .18-.20; tarsus, 1.25; middle 
toe, .70-. 75. Hah. Southern South America. 
9. 2E. mongolica. In summer, whole breast and nape clear cinnamon-rufous, and top of 
head tinged with the same ; lores, sub-orbital region, and auriculars black, the former bor- 
dered above by a white line, sometimes meeting over the forehead ; chin, throat, fore- 
neck, belly, and crissum pure white ; upper parts brownish gray. In winter, the rufous 
entirely absent ; forehead and lower parts white, the breast crossed by a faint grayish 
brown liar, darkening into a dusky patch on each side ; auriculars and loral streak 
somewhat dusky. Wing, 5.15-5.40. Ilab. Asia in general, breeding northward ; Choris 
Peninsula, Alaska. 
Trvnga hiaticula, Wilson, Am. Orn. VII. 1813, 65, pi. 59, f. 3 (nee Linn). 
Charadrius hiaticula, Okd, ed. Wils. VII. 69. 
Charadrius semipahnatus, BoNap. Comp. List, 1838, 45. 
JEgialites semipalmatus, Caban. .1. f. 0. 1856, 425. — Cassin, in Baird’s B. N. Am. 1858, 694. — 
Baird, Cat. N. Am. B. 1859, no. 507. — Coues, Key, 1872, 244; Check List, 1873, no. 399 ; 
2d cd. 1S82, No. 586. — Rjdgw. Nom. N. Am. B. 1881, no. 517. 
Charadrius brevirostris, Max. Beitr. IV. 769 (Brazil). 
Hab. North America in general, breeding in the Arctic and Sub-arctic districts, migrating 
south in winter throughout the tropical regions, as far as Brazil and Peru. Bermudas ; whole of 
West Indies ; Galapagos. 
Sp. Char. Small ; wings long, toes connected at base, especially the outer to the middle toe. 
Front, throat, ring around the neck, and entire under parts, white ; a band of deep black across 
the breast, extending around the back of the neck below the white ring. Band from the base of 
the bill, under the eye, and wide frontal band above the white band, black. Upper parts ashy 
brown ; cpiills brownish black, with their shafts white in a middle portion, and occasionally a lan- 
ceolate white spot along the shafts of the shorter primaries ; shorter tertiaries edged with white ; 
greater coverts tipped with white. Middle feathers of the tail ashy brown, with a wide cubter- 
minal band of brownish black, and narrowly tipped with white ; two outer tail-feathers white, 
others intermediate, like the middle, but widely tipped with white. Bill orange-yellow at base, 
black terminally ; legs pale flesh-color. Female similar, but rather lighter colored. Young with 
the black replaced by ashy brown, the feathers of the upper parts bordered with paler. Downy 
young : Above, pale grayish brown, mottled with black : a frontal crescent, broad nuchal collar, 
and entire lower parts white. 
Total length, about 7 inches; wing, 4.75; tail, 2.25 inches. 
The “ Ring Plover ” of America is common to the whole of North America, not 
even excepting its more northern portions. It is apparently as abundant on the 
shores of the Pacific as of the Atlantic, and during its migrations is common on 
the margins of the lakes, rivers, and ponds of the interior. It probably breeds in 
the more northern portions of the United States ; but, so far as we are aware, its 
nest has never been taken within our limits. A few pass the summer on the shores 
of Lake Koskonong, in Wisconsin, but they are not known to breed there. Audubon 
is mistaken in saying that they confine themselves in the spring to the sandy beaches 
of our sea-coasts. They are quite as numerous, and perhaps more so, about the 
collections of fresh water, in the interior, wherever they can find suitable food. 
.ZGgialitis semipalmata. 
THE SEMIPALMATED RING PLOVER. 
