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WILSON’S PLOVER, 
in extent; the bill is black, stout, and an inch long, the upper 
mandible projecting considerably over the lower; front white, 
passing on each side to the middle of the eye above, and bounded 
by a band of black of equal breadth; lores black; eyelids white; 
eye large and dark; from the middle of the eye, backwards, 
the stripe of white becomes duller, and extends for half an inch; 
the crown, hind-head and auriculars, are drab olive; the chin, 
throat, and sides of the neck for an inch, pure white, passing 
quite round the neck, and narrowing to a point behind; the 
upper breast below this is marked with a broad band of jet 
black; the rest of the lower parts pure white; upper parts pale 
olive drab; along the edges of the auriculars, and hind-head, 
the plumage, where it joins the white, is stained with raw terra 
sienna; all the plumage is darkest in the centre; the tertials are 
fully longer than the primaries, the latter brownish black, the 
shafts and edges of some of the middle ones white; secondaries, 
and greater coverts, slightly tipped with white; the legs are of 
a pale flesh colour; toes bordered with a narrow edge; claws 
and ends of the toes black; the tail is even, a very little longer 
than the wings, and of a blackish olive colour, with the excep- 
tion of the two exterior feathers, which are whitish, but gene- 
rally only the two middle ones are seen. 
The female differs in having no black on the forehead, lores, 
or breast, these parts being pale olive.* 
Since publishing the foregoing, Mr. T. R. Peale and myself, 
in an excursion, in the month of May, on the coast of New 
.lersey, found this species to be pretty common, in the vicinity 
of Brigantine beach. We also observed them in various places 
between Great Egg-harbour and Long-beach. G. Ord. 
From Mr. Ord’s supplementary volume. 
