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, 181/2, 321/2, bill 35/8. 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.
326. 2. Hæmatopus Bachmanii, Aud. Bachman's Oyster-catcher.
Plate CCCCXXVII. Fig. 1. Male.
Bill vermilion, fading to yellow on the worn parts towards the end; feet white, slightly tinged with flesh-colour; plumage chocolate-brown, darker and tinged with bluish-grey on the head and neck; the under surface of the quills lighter.
Male, 171/2, wing 10; bill 23/4.
North-west coast, Regent's Sound, and about the mouth of the Columbia River. Rather common. Migratory.