BLACK-BELLIED PLOVER. 
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tipt with white; tail white, broadly barred with black; no golden 
spots. 
An adult female, shot at Egg-Harbour, on the 26th May, was 
twelve inches in length; upper parts olive brown, spotted with 
black and white, the long feathers of the sides, at the junction 
of the wings, black; wings crossed with a broad band of white, 
immediately under their coverts, spreading over their shafts; 
secondaries pale olive, edged and tipt with white; primaries, 
and their coverts, black; throat and sides of the neck white, 
spotted with dark olive; breast and belly, as far as the thighs, 
black, intermixed with white; legs and feet deep purplish slate. 
The black of the lower parts was not so deep as that of the 
foregoing male. Her eggs were small. 
A young male, shot at Egg-Harbour, in the month of October, 
had whitish spots on a brownish black ground; crown nearly 
black, spotted with brownish yellow; breast, throat and eye- 
brows, pure white; the long feathers of the sides, at the junction 
of the wings, black; legs and feet lead-coloured. 
A young bird in Peale’s collection, supposed to be a male of 
the first year, has its head, neck, and whole upper parts, brown 
ash or dark gray, spotted with white; breast white, with pale 
brown ash intermixed; lower part of the abdomen, and under 
tail-coverts, white; tail white, with large bars of ashy brown; 
lining of the wings white; the long feathers of the sides, at the 
junction of the wings, dusky; primaries paler than in the adult, 
but similarly marked with white. It has no golden or orange 
coloured spots. 
I have little doubt that the Black-bellied Plover described by 
Pennant as common at Hudson’s bay, and called there Hawk’s- 
eye, is this speces, although authors record it among the syno- 
nymes of the Golden Plover, in its spring dress. The hind toe 
of this species is very small and slender; and in dried specimens 
it adheres so closely to the tarsus that it is frequently overlooked. 
It likewise is liable to be rubbed off; this accident probably oc- 
curred to the specimen figured and described by Edwards, under 
the name of Spotted Plover; for I have no hesitation in pro- 
