Capture op AUgialitis meloda yar. circumcincta, Eidg., on Long 
Island. — While collecting April 30, 1873, on the outer beach, near 
Eockaway, Long Island, I shot several specimens of the Piping Plover. 
One, an adult male, had the pectoral band complete across the jugulum, a 
peculiarity I could not discover in any others. The band is unusually 
broad, curving anteriorly somewhat, and is slightly enlarged in the mid- 
dle toward the throat, giving it the outline of a top of a shield, whereas 
in those specimens which have the markings on the neck nearly meeting, 
the lines converge to a point in an hour-glass shape. The dimensions are, 
6.77 x 14.25 x 4.65 ; tail, 2.10 ; bill, .55 ; tarsus, .90, male adult, agreeing in 
the main with Mr. Eidgway’s type (breeding plumage, male adult, July 8, 
Loup Fork of the Platte, Am. Nat., VIII, 1874, 109) excepting length, 
which he gives as 6^ inches, which is much below the average. The 
same day I shot a female with just a faint line of dusky uniting the dark 
patches of the neck, formed by the edgings only of two or three feathers, 
all the way across. I doubt whether this should be regarded as the fe- 
male of var. circumcincta, however. — C. H. Eagle. 
Bull. N. O.O. 8, April, 1878, p.94 
