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YOUNG SEMIPALMATED PLOVER. 
and tertials are of the colour of the body; the larger are darker, 
white at the tips, and they form a conspicuous band across; the 
spurious wing and under wing-coverts are white, somewhat mixed 
with dingy: the quill-feathers are dark gray, blackish at their 
point, and on their outer web : the shaft of all is white towards 
the middle, and the secondaries have moreover a white spot along 
it. The tail is two and a half inches long, slightly rounded : the 
outer and shortest feather is white, with a small elongated spot 
towards the middle of its inner web; the second each side has a 
much broader and darker one extending on both webs, dingy at 
base and pure white on the shaft and at tip only: all the remaining 
ones are dusky at base, with a broad black space towards the 
point, and are terminated with white, less pure and less extended 
according as they are nearer to the true middle ones, which are 
merely edged with whitish. The feet are yellowish; the tarsus 
is almost an inch long, and the middle toe three quarters; the 
outer is connected to the second joint with the middle one by a 
membrane; and the inner is also connected with the middle, but 
no farther than the first joint. 
In the adult, well described by Wilson, the bill is orange 
beyond the middle, black at the point: the margins of the eyelids 
are orange : the irides are brown: the front, throat, neck broadly 
round, and all beneath pure white : the head is of a gray colour, 
somewhat tinged with reddish: a broad sincipital band, and a 
broad ring round the base of the neck jet black: lora, continued 
through the eye into a broad patch dilating on the auriculars, 
blackish: the back and wing-coverts are rufo-cinereous: the quills 
are blackish, the fifth, sixth, seventh and eighth being white along 
the shaft: the secondaries are rufo-cinereous, white at their tips : 
the tail is blackish, and quite black towards the point; the outer 
tail-feather is white, the second, third and fourth being also white 
at their tips. 
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