Plate CCXXIII. Male.
Bill vermilion, feet very pale flesh-colour; head and neck dull black
tinged with bluish-grey; upper parts light greyish-brown, tinged with
olive, and faintly glossed with reddish-purple; lower eyelid, edge of
wing, tips of secondary coverts, secondary quills except the inner,
pure white; as are the lower parts generally, the rump, and basal half
of the tail; primaries and terminal part of tail brownish-black.
_Male_, 18-1/2, 32-1/2, bill 3-5/8. _Female_, 21, 36.
Breeds from Texas along the coast to New York, again from Maine to
Labrador. Returns south in autumn, spending the winter from Maryland
to West Florida. Rather common.
Hæmatopus palliatus, Temm. Man. d'Orn. v. ii. p. 532.
Mantled Oyster-catcher, Hæmatopus palliatus, Nutt. Man. v. ii.
p. 15.
American Oyster-catcher, Hæmatopus palliatus, Aud. Orn. Biog.
v. iii. p. 181; v. v. p. 580.