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Wilson’s plover. 
deposits on the ground. * The eggs of the light coloured 
species, formerly described, are of a pale cream colour, 
tnarked with small round dots of black, as if done with 
a pen. 
The ring plover, according to Pennant, inhabits 
America down to Jamaica and the Brazils ; is found 
in summer in Greenland; migrates from thence in 
autumn ; is common in evei'y part of Russia and 
Siberia ; was found by the navigators, as low as 
Owbyhee, one of the Sandwich Islands, and as light 
coloured as those of the highest latitudes.']' 
195 . CUASAT)ltlUS WJZSONIiTS, WILSON. WILSON’S PLOVER. 
WILSON, PLATE LXXIII. PIG. V. 
Oi this neat and prettily marked species I can find 
no account, and have concluded that it has hitherto 
escaped tlie eye of the natiu-alist. The bird from which 
WHS description was taken, was shot the 13th of May, 
1813, on the shore of Cape Island, New Jersey, by my 
ever-regretted triend ; and I have honoured it with his 
I*- ® male, and ivas accompanied by another 
c the same sex and a female, all of which were fortu- 
nately obtained. 
This bird very much resembles the ring plover, 
in ™ length and colour of the bill, its size, and 
of yellow eyelids. The males and females 
species ditfer in their markings, but the ring 
men ®gi’eo. We conversed with some sports- 
witb tl asserted that they were acquainted 
aimenrnf*^ ^wds, and that they sometimes made their 
liifl '..r. flocks of considerable numbers ; others 
we wore '*®?} ^®dge of them. That the species is rare 
tLe cl " p ®®'"’inced, as we had diligently explored 
vh in’t f ^ considerable part of Cape May, in the 
1 y 0 Gre.at Egg Harbour, many times at dift'erent 
+ ■ .. . t Arctic Zoology^ i>. -ISb. 
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