SPECIES 2. C. HMTICULJi. 
RING PLOVER. 
[Plate LIX. — Fig. 3.] 
Arct. Zuol. p. 4S5, JS/‘o. 401 . — La petit Pluvier a collier, Buff. 
VIII, 90. — Bewick, i, 326. — Peale’s Museum, JVo. 4150.t 
In a preceding part of this workj a bird by this name has 
been figured and described, under the supposition that it was 
the Ring Plover, then in its summer dress; but which, not- 
withstanding its great resemblance to the present, I now sus- 
pect to be a different species. F earful of perpetuating error, and 
anxious to retract, where this may inadvertently have been the 
case, I shall submit to the consideration of the reader the rea- 
sons on which my present suspicions are founded. 
The present species, or true Ring Plover, and also the for- 
mer, or light coloured bird, both arrive on the seacoast of New 
Jersey late in April. The present kind continues to be seen in 
flocks until late in May, when they disappear on their way far- 
ther north; the light-coloured bird remains during the summer, 
forms its nest in the sand, and generally produces two broods 
in the season. Early in September the present species returns 
in flocks as before; soon after this, the light-coloured kind go 
off to the south, but the other remain a full month later. Eu- 
ropean writers inform us, that the Ring Plover has a sharp 
twittering note, and this account agrees exactly with that of 
the present; the light coloured species, on the contrary, has a 
peculiarly soft and musical note, similar to the tone of a German 
* Tringa liiaticula, in the original edifion, which with Prince Musignano, 
we consider as a typographical eiror. 
t Charadrms semipalmatus, Bonaparte, Ann. Lyc, Nat. Hist. N. Y. Vol. ii, 
p.296. 
fSee preceding species. 
