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154                   lRUNG' PLOVER.
band from the upper mandible, covering the auriculars, also
black; back, scapulars, and wing-coverts, of a brownish ash co-
lour; wing quills dusky black, marked with an oval spot of
white about the middle of each; tail olive, deepening into black,
and tipt with white; legs dull yellow; eye dark hazel, eyelids
yellow.
  This bird is said to make no nest, but to lay four eggs, of a
pale ash colour, spotted with black, which she deposites on the
ground.e The eggs of the light-coloured species, formerly de-
scribed, are of a pale cream colour, marked with small round
dots of black, as if done with a pen.
  The Ring Plover, according to Pennant, inhabits America,
down to Jamaica and the Brazils. Is found in summer in Green-
land; migrates thence in autumn. Is common in every part of
Russia and Siberia. Was found by the navigators as low as
Owyhee, one of the Sandwich islands, and as light-coloured as
those of the highest latitudes. t
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f Arct. Zoo]. p. 485.
* BewEick.