wilson’s plover. 
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deposits on the ground.* The eggs of the light coloured 
species, formerly described, are of a pale cream colour, 
marked with small round dots of black, as if done with 
a pen. 
The ring plover, according to Pennant, inhabits 
America down to Jamaica and the Brazils ; is found 
in summer in Greenland ; migrates from thence in 
autumn ; is common in every part of Russia and 
Siberia ; was found by the navigators, as low as 
Owhyhee, one of the Sandwich Islands, and as light 
coloured as those of the highest latitudes, f 
195. CHAEADRIUS WILSONIUS, WILSON. — WILSON’S PLOVER. 
WILSON, PLATE LXXIII. FIG. V. 
Of this neat and prettily marked species I can find 
no account, and have concluded that it has hitherto 
escaped the eye of the naturalist. The bird from which 
this description was taken, was shot the 13th of May, 
1813, on the shore of Cape Island, New Jersey, by my 
ever-regretted friend ; and I have honoured it with his 
name. J It was a male, and was accompanied by another 
of the same sex and a female, all of which ^ere fortu- 
nately obtained. 
This bird very much resembles the ring plover, 
except in the length and colour of the bill, its size, and 
in wanting the yellow eyelids. The males and females 
of this species differ in their markings, but the ring 
plovers nearly agree. We conversed with some sports- 
men of Cape May, who asserted that they were acquainted 
with these birds, and that they sometimes made their 
appearance in flocks of considerable numbers ; others 
had no knowledge of them. That the species is rare 
we were well convinced, as we had diligently explored 
the shore of a considerable part of Cape May, in the 
vicinity of Great Egg Harbour, many times at different 
* Bewick. f Arctic Zoology, p. 485. 
\ This description, from vol. ix. of the original edition, is written 
by Mr Ord. 
