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PRiECOCIAL GRALLATORES — LIMICOLiE. 
jugulum merely shaded with light grayisli brown ; but coloration in this group is of little value 
compared with deviations of structure, the species of AEgialitis being a case in point. 
Eudromias, the type of which is Charadrius morinellus, Linn., differs from Podasocys in being of 
much stouter build, the culmen shorter than the middle toe, the latter nearly half as long as the 
tarsus, the web between the outer and middle toe much larger, the tertials extending to the ends 
of the primaries, etc. No American Plover is referable to Eudromias, as properly restricted. 
Podasocys montanus. 
THE MOUNTAIN PLOVER. 
Charadrius montanus, Towns. Journ. Ac. Nat. Sci. Philad. VII. 1837, 192. — Aud. Orn. Biog. IV. 
1838, 362, pi. 350 ; Synop. 1839, 223 ; B. Am. V. 1812, 213, pi. 318. 
JEgialitis montanus, Cassin, in Baird’s B. N. Am. 1858, 693. — Baikd, Cat. N. Am. B. 1859, no. 
505. 
Podasocys montanus, Coues, Pr. Ac. Nat. Sci. Philad. 1866, 96 ; Check List, 2d ed. 1882, no. 592. - — 
Elliot, Illustr. Am. B. II. 1869, pi, 39. — Rid gw. Norn. N. Am. B. 1881, no. 523. 
JEgialitis asiaticus, var. montanus, Coues, Key, 1872, 245 ; Check List, 1873, no. 402. 
Eudromias montanus, Coues, Check List, 1873, App. p. 135, no. 402 ; Birds N. W. 1874, 456. 
Hab. Western Province of North America ; accidental in Florida ; no extralimital record. 
Sp. Char. Adult, breeding 'plumage: Wide frontal crescent, superciliary stripe, and entire 
lower parts white, purest on the' forehead, of a more or less soiled tint beneath, the jugulum 
shaded with light grayish brown, most distinct laterally where insensibly merging into the color 
of the upper parts. Fore part of the crown, and stripe from the rictus to the eye (across lores), 
Winter plumage. 
black. Rest of upper parts, uniform light grayish brown, the remiges and tail dusky ; shafts of 
primaries, white. Adult in spring : Similar to the above, but upper parts and jugulum tinged with 
light buffy ochraceous. Adult and young in winter : More strongly tinged with buff, both above 
