SNOWY PLOVER
278. Ægialitis nivosa. 6.5 in.
Very small and very pale colored. Small black patch on either side of the breast, on ear coverts, and on crown. Bill more slender but longer than that of the [Piping Plover].
Notes.—Low, mournful, piping whistles.
Range.—United States chiefly west of the Rockies, east to Kansas and north to Dakota.