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parts white. Front with a second band of black above the white band ; stripe from the base of the bill to the eye and wide 
transverse band on the breast, brownish black. Upper parts of head and body light ashy brown, with the feathers frequently 
edged and tipped with pale ashy. Back of the neck encircled with a ring of white, edged above with fine light reddish. Quills 
brown, with white shafts ; shorter coverts tipped with white ; outer feathers of the tail white, middle feathers dark brown. 
Bill black, legs yellow. Female. Without the band of black in front, and with the pectoral band dull reddish and light 
ashy brown. 
Total length, 7J inches ; wing, 4| ; tail, 2 inches. 
Hab .—Middle and Southern States on the Atlantic, and the same coast of South America. 
This plover is of frequent occurrence on the shores of the Atlantic, and is easily recognized 
by its stout and rather long bill and short tail. It migrates apparently into the southern 
division of this continent in the winter, and is undoubtedly the species described and figured 
by Spix as a bird of Brazil, as above cited. 
List of specimens. 
Catal. 
No. 
Sex. 
Locality. 
When collected. 
Whence obtained. 
Collected by— 
L’gth. 
Stretch 
of wings. 
Wing. 
1144 
1145 
<? 
9 
Cape May, N. J_ 
_do_ 
July 15,1843 
July 17,1843 
S. F. Baird_ 
------do__ 
W. M. Baird. 
_do_ 
7. 50 
7. 50 
14. 50 
15. 50 
4.80 
4. 80 
Aeg’ialeus, Reichenbach. 1 
AEG-IALITIS SEMIPALMATUS, (Bon.) Cab. 
King Plover; Semipalmated Plover. 
Charadrius semipalmatus, Bon. Obs. Wils. 1825, No. 219 .—Ib. Syn. 1828, 296 .—Ib. Am. Orn. IV, 1832, 92; 
pi. xxv.— Kaup, Isis, 1825, 1375 ; pi. xiv, (head and foot.)— Wagler, Syst. Av. 1827, 
No. 23.— Nuttall, Man. II, 24.—Sw. F. B. Am. II, 1831, 367.— Aud. Orn. Biog. IV, 
1838, 256 ; V, 579 ; pi. 330.— Ib. Syn. 224.— Ib. Birds Am. V, 1842, 218 ; pi. 320. 
Jlegialtes semipalmata, Bon. List, 1838. 
dlegialitis semipalmatus, Cab. Cab. Journ. 1856,425. 
Jlegialeus semipalmatus, Reich. Syst. Av. 1853, pi. xviii. 
Tringa hialicula, Wilson, Am. Orn. VII, 1813, 65 ; pi. lix. 
Charadrius hiaticula, Ord, ed. Wils VII, 69. 
Figures. — Wilson, Am. Orn. VII, pi. 59, fig. 3.— Aud. B. of Am. pi. 330 ; oct. ed. V, pi. 320.— Bonap. Am. Orn. IV, pi. 
25, fig. 4. 0 
Sp. Ch. —Small, wings long, toes connected at base, especially the outer to the middle toe. Front, throat, ring around the 
neck, and entire under parts, white, a band of deep black across the breast,- extending around the back of the neck below the 
white ring. Band from the base of the bill, under the eye, and wide frontal band above the white'band, black. Upper parts 
light ashy brown, with a tinge of olive ; quills brownish black, with their shafts white in a middle portion, and occasionally 
a lanceolate white spot along the shafts of the shorter primaries ; shorter tertiaries edged with white ; lesser coverts tipped - 
with white. Middle feathers of the tail ashy olive brown, with a wide subterminal band of brownish black, and narrowly 
tipped with white ; two outer tail feathers white, others intermediate, like the middle, but widely tipped with white. Bill 
orange yellow, tipped with black ; legs yellow. Female similar, but rather lighter colored. Young without the black band 
in front, and with the band across the breast ashy brown. 
Total length, about 7 inches ; wing, 4^ ; tail, 2j inches. 
Hab. —The whole of temperate North America. Common on the Atlantic. 
1 Aegialeus, Reich. Syst. Av. 185, p. xviii. Type Charadrius semipalmatus, Bon. Small, bill rather short. Tail 
and wings rather long. 
