YOUNG SEMIPALMATED PLOVER.
CHJWJimtlUS SEMIPJtLMkrUS.
' Plate XXY. Fig. 4.
See W ilson’s American Ornithology, R in g -P lo v e r, Charadrim ( T rin g a , b y a typographical
error,) H ia ticu la , vol. V II, p ^ 6 5 , (Obd’s ed. p. 69,) pf. 59, figaS, for th e A d u lt
in sp n u g d re ss;a n d th e h is to ïy f f l|j
Charadrius semipalmatus, N ob. Obs. Nam . W ils. sp. 2 1 9 . I d . Cat. im d S yn . birds Ik S .
"sp. 216. I d .Speech, comp. sp. P h ila d : C aup, Is is , X II, 1825, M ^ 8 3 |5, t. 14, (ÜSÈ:
head and f o o t) W asdbr, S y s t A v. I , Charadriu£ s p ': ^ .
Philadelphia Museum.
V p credit Ilf? fl®st pointing put the curious though4®hs,cure»
^ïaracter which distinguishes thepresent. bird from itsivefy near
relative the Ch. hiaticula oiPBurope, is.due to Mr. OrcL and after
verifying it in all our American specimens, we feel saSisfied that
the true hiaticula-èöes not, Inhabit this continent, and those authors
who have re ced ed it as American, must have mistaken the pre-
sept species for iff we might therefore have swelled our limited lis|g
of synonyms with quotations of all their American specjÉ|fflg|
described under this im e . Thé apeeiet was first estaMisheH in
our ■ “ phservations on^pe Nomenclature of Wiilsoh/^frid Sn our
Synopsis,’’ and neafty at A e same time by Mr. Caup also, on a
j^gngje specimen m the Muséum of Darmstadt, whffee origin was
^Bouhtful, h ti the real||n e susfracted. By aÜQrtunate coHbidence,
Mr, Caup and mysdlf wegg^ed to selecPuheissame appropriate
name foiao a ^ hird. which is the le^fetraoBdinary, as being suggested
by^p^ material .an anomaly'in the characters; Natural
History colraSleting us in this instance tajfra result of one of the
X most exact sciences;*^
The- distinctions between the three. European species of Ring-
Plovers having been until lately but little understood;!! is not to .
be wondered at if those inhabiting these Stupes Were Pot at once
well established: North America'
of the 'Kilrdeer, arid. several' others not yet pfoperly determined
inhabit othdr parts of the world.' ,
Being now regarded as a new and *very distinct species, we
have not hesitated to reproduce of its natural size a bird-that
Wilson has already represented rediffllNfAnfe half; but-his figure
of th fe d u lt being remarkably good, we ha&e thought'.itvbestf'to
give^lie young, with Hie subjoined- description, rtef^rfing thfe ;
» a d e r f o i^ h e r partiic&Vs to the accurate account'of ©urprede-
Ipessor.
l e Young Semipalmated Plover is seven inches Migi and
fom^eniin extent :> the bill is* almost entirely Mack;* being destitute
of orang^tand with ■ no more than ■
colour at the’baSe of the waiter m a t « . The frdhtlfety cohtitoued
into the lora, and dilating broadly on the auriculars, is-of a
darkish gray colour, somewhat tinged with brown: a frontal band
obscurely continued over the eyes is white ; there is no siMeipkal
black ban d : the top of the head k graykh .-h^wn dnWu to the
n e c^ which Colour u n ite s a n d fo r tn s 'a single mass ;with the
auricular||||lready dwcvibed : the throat t^ the very origin of the
bill, an<#afi.the under parts, al-e pure white,-with the exception
©f a collar on the breast, which, as a continuation of the colour dE
the back, is of a brownish gray : 'the white encroaches somewhat
upon the middle ojL thjis collar on the lower* side; ana extendi .in
a broad ring all r^ixd the neck: after this collar, the whole upper
parts of the body are brownish gray, precisely of thCj|&me hue as
the top of the head, and like it have , each featherl slightly edged,
with pale. The Wings .are I four and three quarter-inches long,
exactly reachSxg the tip of the tail, the smaller and middle coverts
von. iv.—A a