Only three toes, there being no sign of a hind toe, which almost all Plovers also lack.

Bill shaped like a Pigeon's.
In winter: Without any pure black on the under parts, which are muddy whitish mixed and marbled with gray.
A Citizen of North America, whose summer home is with the Turnstone in the far North, and who travels to South America every fall and back again in the spring.

We mostly see it in flocks on these journeys.
A member of the guild of Ground Gleaners, and a fine game bird, whose delicately flavored meat is a great luxury for invalids; it is therefore right for sportsmen to shoot Golden Plovers in the fall.
"Do tell us some more about paddling and wading birds," said Dodo, forgetting that she was in her sopping-wet bathing-dress.
"Break--fast! Break--fast! Come in--come in--come in!" called the big bell that Rap's mother was ringing at the cabin door.

And the morning itself was hardly brighter than the smile on her face at the sight of her lame boy's happiness.

"Hurry along and dress, you little Sandpipers, for by and by we are going up the river," said the Doctor.
"Why do you call us Sandpipers, Uncle Roy ?" asked Nat.
"Because Sandpipers are long-legged little birds that run along the water's edge, where they patter about and whistle, but can't swim." And they all raced laughing up to the cabin, Rap saying cheerfully, "Then I'm not a Sandpiper, for I hop like a Robin instead of running." In the afternoon, Olaf had the sharpie (which is a flat sharp-nosed boat with two masts) ready with a little dingey tied on behind, and when the tide rose the party went aboard.