SHORE BIRDS 
278. Snowy Plover. Mgialitis nivosa. 
Range. — Breeds along the Pacific coast of the United States, and from Texas 
to Manitoba in the interior. Winters on the California coast and south to Chili. 
Snowy Plovers are very much like the Piping, but 
are smaller (length 6.5 inches), have a longer and 
more slender bill, and have a small black patch on 
the side of head. It is the palest colored of the 
Plovers. Large numbers of them nest along the 
Pacific coast and in Texas; north of Texas, in the 
interior, they are locally distributed. The eggs are 
pale clay color, marked with small scratchy dots of 
black. Size 1.20 x .90. Data.- — Newport Beach, Cali- 
fornia, May 1, 1897. Nest a hollow in the sand, a 
short distance above high water; lined with broken p a ie buff, 
shell. Collector, Evan Davis. 
[279-] Mongolian Plover. /Egialitis mongola. 
An inhabitant of the Old World, awarded a place in our avifauna because of 
its accidental occurrence at Alaska. 
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