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BLACK-BELLIED PLOVER. 
bill, legs and feet, of a shining black ; no golden or orange color- 
ed spots. The parts not mentioned agreeing with those of the 
foregoing. 
Another adult male, shot at Egg-Harbor, on the 10th of May, 
was twelve inches in length, and had its cheeks, lores, throat, mid- 
dle of the breast and belly, as far as the thighs, black ; the long 
feathers of the sides, at the junction of the wings, also black ; fea- 
thers of the crown ash, centred with black, and tipt with white ; 
back brownish black, plumage broadly tipt with white ; wing-co- 
verts brown ash and black, broadly spotted and tipt with white ; 
tail white, broadly barred with black ; no golden spots. 
An adult female, shot at Egg-Harbor, 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, imme- 
diately under their coverts, spreading over their shafts ; seconda- 
ries 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-Harbor, in the month of October, 
had whitish spots on a brownish black ground ; crown nearly 
black, spotted with brownish yellow ; bi-east, throat and eye-brows, 
pure white ; the long feathers of the sides, at the junction of the 
wings, black ; legs and feet lead-colored. 
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 while ; 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 ; 
