318. 3. Charadrius vociferus, Linn. Kildeer Plover.
Plate CCXXV. Male and Female.
Tail rather long, much rounded; bill black, feet light greyish-blue, hind part of tarsus pale flesh-colour; upper part of head, fore part of back, smaller wing-coverts, and inner secondary quills brownish-olive; rump orange-red; lower parts white; a brown band from the base of the bill, under the eye, to the occiput; over this a white band on the forehead, and extending behind the eye, where it is tinged with light red; surmounted by a brownish-black band between the eyes; on the neck two broad rings, the upper white, the lower black, succeeded by a band of white, and another of black in front; primaries brownish-black, each with a white mark, linear on the outer, enlarging on the inner quills; secondaries, excepting the inner, white, but most of them with a large patch of blackish-brown toward the end, their tips and most of those of the primaries white, as are those of the larger coverts. Tail-feathers white at the base, succeeded by orange, the four middle brown, all with a broad subterminal band of black, the tips white, those of the middle feathers pale reddish, the outer on each side white, with three bands of black on the inner web.
Male, 10, 20.
Common. Breeds from Texas to the eastern base of the Rocky Mountains, and in all the central and Atlantic districts, to Massachusetts. Fur Countries.
Kildeer Plover, Charadrius vociferus, Wils. Amer. Orn. v. vii. p. 73.
Charadrius vociferus, Bonap. Syn. p. 297.
Charadrius vociferus, Kildeer Plover, Swains. & Rich. F. Bor. Amer. v. ii. p. 368.
Kildeer Plover, Nutt. Man. v. ii. p. 22.
Kildeer Plover, Charadrius vociferus, Aud. Orn. Biog. v. iii. p. 191; v. v. p. 577.
319. 4. Charadrius montanus, Townsend. Rocky-mountain Plover.
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, 81/4, wing 61/8.