Plate CCLXXXIV. Male. Plate CCIX. Female.
Bill very large, nearly as long as the head, black; feet
flesh-coloured; upper parts light greyish-brown, lower white; lower
part of forehead, a broad band over the eyes, throat, and a ring round
the neck, white; a band between the eyes, and one on the fore neck,
brownish-black; quills dusky brown, outer webs of inner primaries
white toward the base, most of the quills tipped with white; tail
brown, darker toward the end, the lateral feathers becoming white.
Female similar, but without the black band on the forehead, and having
that on the neck light brown.
_Male_, 7-8/12, 14-1/4.
Common, and breeds from Texas along the coast to Long Island. Resident
in the Southern States.
Wilson's Plover, Charadrius Wilsonius, Ord. Amer. Orn. v. ix.
p. 77.
Charadrius Wilsonius, Bonap. Syn. p. 296.
Wilson's Plover, Nutt. Man. v. ii. p. 21.
Wilson's Plover, Charadrius Wilsonius, Aud. Orn. Biog. v. iii.
p. 73; v. v. p. 577.