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usually glided from her nest and ran a short distance before Hying ; sometimes she 
drooped her wings, and pretended lameness. The nests were near the edge of the 
sea, near the water of small lakes, and on islands in rivers. Mr. MacFarlane speaks 
of them as tolerably numerous in that quarter, as well as in the country betwixt 
the Arctic coast and Fort Good Hope. On his annual July journey to that post, en 
route for Fort Simpson, he has noticed Plovers of this species, together with their 
young of the season, occupied in feeding and diverting themselves on the shores of 
the different lakes. 
Mr. Ludwig Kumlien mentions the arrival of this bird in the Cumberland waters 
about the middle of June, and says that it is by no means rare there, breeding on 
the mossy banks of fresh-water ponds. It migrates southward as soon as the fresh- 
water ponds are frozen over. 
An egg of this species (Ho. Ill) collected in Labrador by Thienemann is of oblong- 
oval shape, tapering at one end and rounded at the other. The ground-color is a nearly 
pure drab, and the markings are scattered, isolated, rounded, occasionally irregularly 
shaped blotches of dark bistre, hardly distinguishable from black. Some are diluted 
with the ground-color, and are more obscure, having a shading of purplish slate ; 
another (Ho. 172), also from Labrador, collected by Dr. Trudeau, is more rounded 
in shape, the blotches being larger, and the deep bistre, in a strong light, shaded with 
wine-color. Three others (Ho. 1882) from St. George’s Bay, collected by Mr. Drexler, 
June 26, 1860, correspond with Ho. 111. These eggs have the following measure- 
ments: Ho. Ill, 1.35 inches by .99; Ho. 172, 1.20 by .98; Ho. 1882, 1.25 by 1.00, 
1.30 by .96, and 1.35 by .99. 
iEgialitis hiaticula. 
THE EUROPEAN RING PLOVER. 
Charadrius hiaticula, Linn. S. N. eel. 10, I. 1758, 150; eel. 12, I. 1766, 253. — -Naum. Vog. 
Deutschl. VII. 1833, 291, pi. 175. — Macgill. Man. II. 52. — Schleg. Rev. Grit. 83. — 
Guay, Gen. III. 544 ; Cat. Brit. B. 1863, 140. 
JEgialitis hiaticula, It he, Isis, 1822, 558. — Keys. & Blas. Wirb. Eur. 71. — Ridgw. Nom. N. 
Am. B. 1881, No. 518. — Coues, Check List, 2el eel. 1882, No. 589. 
Charadrius torquatus, Leach, Syst. Cat. 1816, 28. 
JEgialitis septentrional is, Biiehm, Vog. Deutschl. 548. 
Hiaticula annulata, Gray, List Gen. B. 1840, 65. 
The Pang Dotterel, Bewick, Brit. B. I. 1797, 334, fig. 
Panged Plover, Yaur. Brit. B. ed. 2, II. 465, fig. eel. 3, II. 494, fig. et Auer. 
Hab. The Palsearctic Region, and portions of Arctic America, breeding on western shores of 
Cumberland Gulf (Kumlien). 
Sp. Char. Adult: A narrow frontlet, band across fore part of the crown, auriculars, lores, and 
sub-orbital region, black, all these areas confluent ; collar across lower part of the nape, continuous 
with a broad jugular band, also black. Forehead, postocular patch, nuchal collar, chin, throat, 
malar region, and lower parts (except as described) pure white. Pileum and upper parts generally, 
deep brownish gray or grayish brown. Basal half of bill orange-red in life, yellowish or otherwise 
light colored in the skin ; legs and feet orange ; iris dark brown ; terminal half of bill black. 
Young: The black markings obsolete (replaced by dull grayish) and the feathers of the upper 
surface bordered with pale huffy. Bill wholly dusky. 
Wing, about 5.00 ; culmen, .50-55 ; tarsus, about 1.00 ; middle toe, .60- 65. 
With a close general resemblance to Ai. semipcilmata, this species may be immediately dis- 
tinguished by the entire absence of a web between the inner and middle toes, the smaller size of 
that between the outer and middle toes, the much greater width of the black beneath the eye, 
and of that across the jugulum. It is also decidedly larger; while there are other differences of 
coloration. 
