RING PLOVER. 
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ferruginous, the latter with white ; tertials, black, bordered 
with white ; primaries, plain black ; shaft of the exterior quill, 
snowy, its inner vane elegantly pectinated with white ; 
secondaries, pale brown, spotted on their outer vanes with 
black, and tipt with white ; greater coverts, dusky, edged 
with pale ferruginous, and spotted with black ; lesser coverts, 
pale ferruginous, each feather broadly bordered with white, 
within which is a concentric semicircle of black ; rump and 
tail-coverts, deep brown black, slightly bordered with white ; 
tail, tapering, of a pale brown orange colour, beautifully 
spotted with black, the middle feathers centred with dusky ; 
legs, yellow, tinged with green ; the outer toe joined to the 
middle by a membrane ; lining of the wings, elegantly barred 
with black and white ; iris of the eye, dark, or blue black, 
eye, very large. The male and female are nearly alike. 
RING PLOVER TRINGA HIATICULA Plate LI X. Fig. 3. 
Arct. Zool. p. 483, No. 401. — Le petit pluvier a collier, Buff. viii. 90. — Bewick, 
i. 326. — Beale's Museum, No. 4150. 
CHARADRIUS SEM1P ALMATUS. — Bonaparte.* 
Charadrius semipalmatus, Bonap. Synop. p. 296 American Ring Plover, North. 
Zool. ii. p. 367 — Charadrius semipalmatus? Wagl. Syst. Av. No. 23. 
In a preceding part of this work, (see Plate xxxvii. Fig. 3.) 
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, notwithstanding its great resemblance to the 
* The smaller Charadriachs of America have been much confused, owing 
to their close alliance to each other, and to those of Europe, with some of 
which they were thought to be identical. The Prince of Musignano has 
clearly pointed out the differences which exist between this and the species 
figured at Plate XXXVII, and which bears a more close resemblance to the 
little African C. pecuarius than either the present species or the ldalicula of 
Europe, (see also our note on that species ;) and, although he has not been 
