Plate CCCXXX. Male and Female.
Anterior toes connected by webs of considerable extent; bill small,
half the length of the head, reddish-orange, tipped with black; upper
parts greyish-brown tinged with olive, lower white; forehead, loral
space, a band passing below the eye, and a broad ring on the neck,
black; a band between the eyes, throat, and a ring on the neck, white;
quills dusky, darker towards the end, an elongated white spot on the
inner primaries; tips of the secondary coverts, and two or three of
the inner secondaries, with the tips of the rest white; tail-feathers
brown, darker toward the end, tipped with white, enlarging toward the
outer, which is entirely of that colour. Female similar, with the
black bands lighter. Young with the upper parts paler, the feathers
narrowly margined with dusky and dull yellow, the black bands on the
head wanting, that on the fore neck brown.
_Male_, 7-1/4, 14.
From Texas to the Arctic Regions, after passing through the interior,
as well as along the Atlantic shores. Breeds in Labrador and the Fur
Countries. Many spend the winter in the Floridas.
Ring Plover, Tringa Hiaticula, Wils. Amer. Orn. v. vii. p. 65.
Charadrius semipalmatus, Bonap. Syn. p. 296.
American Ring Plover, Charadrius semipalmatus, Swains. & Rich.
F. Bor. Amer. v. ii. p. 367.
Semipalmated Ringed Plover, Nutt. Man. v. ii. p. 21.
American Ringed Plover, Charadrius semipalmatus, Aud. Orn.
Biog. v. iv. p. 256; v. v. p. 579.