Plate CCCL. Female. Male unknown.
Bill black, feet dull yellow. Forehead, a band over the eye, fore part
of neck, and all the rest of the lower surface, white; crown of the
head and nape dark yellowish-brown, sides and hind part of the neck
dull ochre-yellow, which is the prevailing colour on the upper parts,
the feathers being broadly margined with it while their central
portion is greyish-brown; wing-coverts lighter; primary coverts and
quills dusky, their shafts and margins white, that colour becoming
more extended on the inner and on some of the secondaries, so as to
form a conspicuous patch on the wing; inner secondaries like the back;
tail yellowish-brown, tipped with yellowish-white, the two outer
feathers margined with the same.
_Female_, 8-1/4, wing 6-1/8.
Rocky Mountains.
Charadrius montanus, Towns. Journ. Acad. Nat. Sc.
Philadelphia, v. vii. p. 192.
Rocky Mountain Plover, Charadrius montanus, Aud. Orn. Biog. v.
iv. p. 362.