Plate CCXXV. Male and Female.
Tail rather long, much rounded; bill black, feet light greyish-blue,
hind part of tarsus pale flesh-colour; upper part of head, fore part
of back, smaller wing-coverts, and inner secondary quills
brownish-olive; rump orange-red; lower parts white; a brown band from
the base of the bill, under the eye, to the occiput; over this a white
band on the forehead, and extending behind the eye, where it is tinged
with light red; surmounted by a brownish-black band between the eyes;
on the neck two broad rings, the upper white, the lower black,
succeeded by a band of white, and another of black in front;
primaries brownish-black, each with a white mark, linear on the outer,
enlarging on the inner quills; secondaries, excepting the inner,
white, but most of them with a large patch of blackish-brown toward
the end, their tips and most of those of the primaries white, as are
those of the larger coverts. Tail-feathers white at the base,
succeeded by orange, the four middle brown, all with a broad
subterminal band of black, the tips white, those of the middle
feathers pale reddish, the outer on each side white, with three bands
of black on the inner web.
_Male_, 10, 20.
Common. Breeds from Texas to the eastern base of the Rocky Mountains,
and in all the central and Atlantic districts, to Massachusetts. Fur
Countries.
Kildeer Plover, Charadrius vociferus, Wils. Amer. Orn. v. vii.
p. 73.
Charadrius vociferus, Bonap. Syn. p. 297.
Charadrius vociferus, Kildeer Plover, Swains. & Rich. F. Bor.
Amer. v. ii. p. 368.
Kildeer Plover, Nutt. Man. v. ii. p. 22.
Kildeer Plover, Charadrius vociferus, Aud. Orn. Biog. v. iii.
p. 191; v. v. p. 577.