BLACK-BELLIED PLOVER. 
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along the coast the Black-bellied Kildeer. They continue about 
the coast until early in November, when they move oil’ to the 
south. 
This species is twelve inches long, and twenty-four inches in 
extent ; the bill is thick, deeply grooved on the upper mandible, 
nearly an inch and a half in length, and of a black color ; the head 
and globe of the eye are both remarkably large, the latter deep 
bluish black ; forehead white ; crown and hind-head black, spotted 
with golden yellow ; back and scapulars dusky, sprinkled with the 
same golden or orange colored spots, mixed with others of white ; 
throat, and thence down the breast and belly, as far as tbe thighs 
black ; sides of the breast whitish ; wing quills black, middle of 
the shafts white ; greater coverts black, tipt with white ; lining of 
the wing black; tail regularly barred with blackish and pure white; 
tail-coverts, vent and thighs, pure white ; legs and feet a dusky lead 
color ; the exterior toe joined to the middle by a broad membrane ; 
hind toe very small. 
An adult male, shot the 26th April, near Philadelphia, mea- 
sured eleven inches in length ; space between the eye and bill, and 
cheeks, black ; throat, and thence down the breast and belly, as 
far as the thighs, black, with white intermixed ; front pure wliite, 
which extends in a narrow line over the eyes, bordering the black 
of the neck, as far as the breast ; crown, and thence down the 
back part of the neck, brown and white ; upper parts, with wing- 
coverts, banded with white and black, with some ashy brown fea- 
thers interspersed, the whole presenting an irregularly spotted ap- 
pearance — the back, scapulars and tertials with greenish reflec- 
tions ; lower part of abdomen, thighs, vent, lining of the wings, 
and under tail-coverts, pure white, the exterior vanes of the last 
spotted with brown black ; sides under the wings very pale ash, 
with faint ashy brown bars ; upper tail-coverts white, with narrow 
ashy brown bars, which increase in size, and become darker, up 
the rump ; the upper part of the inner webs of the primaries white ; 
