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RING PLOVER. 
band from the upper mandible, covering the auriculars, also 
black; back, scapulars, and wing-coverts, of a brownish ash co- 
lour; wing quills dusky black, marked with an oval spot of 
white about the middle of each; tail olive, deepening into black, 
and tipt with white; legs dull yellow; eye dark hazel, eyelids 
yellow. 
This bird is said to make no nest, but to lay four eggs, of a 
pale ash colour, spotted with black, which she deposites on the 
ground. * The eggs of the light-coloured species, formerly de- 
scribed, are of a pale cream colour, marked 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 Green- 
land; migrates thence in autumn. Is common in every part of 
Russia and Siberia. Was found by the navigators as low as 
Owyhee, one of the Sandwich islands, and as light-coloured as 
those of the highest latitudes.! 
“Bewick. t Arct. Zool. p. 485. 
