356 CHARADRIIDA. 
A. O. U. Check-l. N. Amer. Birds, 2nd ed. p. 100"; Elliot, N. Amer. Shore-Birds, p. 175 ; 
Underwood, Ibis, 1896, p. 449 **. 
Oxyechus vociferus, Boucard, P. Z. 8. 1878, p. 44°; Sumichr. La Nat. v. p. 232”; Nutting, Pr. 
U.S. Nat. Mus. vi. pp. 379*°, 890; Baird, Brew., & Ridgw. Water-Birds N. Amer. i. 
p. 148"; Ridgw. Pr. U. S. Nat. Mus. viii. p. 581°°; Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. xxiv. 
p. 242“; Bangs, Auk, xviii. p. 358“'; Oates, Cat. Eggs Brit. Mus. ii. p. 22”. 
Supra brunneus, dorso postico, uropygio et supracaudalibus cinnamomeis; tectricibus alarum et secundariis 
intimis dorso concoloribus, majoribus saturate brunneis, albo terminatis, fasciam alarem formantibus ; 
remigibus nigricantibus, intus albis et albo terminaliter fimbriatis, macula longitudinali rhachidali vel 
fascia alba extus notatis; secundariis nigricantibus, ad basin albis, interioribus albis vix nigro extus 
notatis ; rectricibus olivascenti-brunneis, fascia lata nigra subterminali ornatis, externis cinnamomeis, 
albo late terminatis, rectrice extima alba intus nigro quadratim fasciata ; pileo et facie laterali brunneis ; 
fronte, supercilio, genis et gutture toto albis, ad torquem cervicalem albam conjunctis; fascia post- 
frontali et altera post-cervicali nigris, hac ad fasciam latam jugularem conjuncta; prepectore torque 
collari duplici, fascia superiore cinnamomeo-fulva, inferiore tamen nigra ornato ; corpore reliquo subtus 
albo: rostro nigro ; pedibus pallide coccineis vel dilute flavicantibus ; iride saturate brunnea ; palpebris 
aurantiacis vel scarlatinis. Long. tota circa 9°5, ale 6°4, caude 3°7, culm. 1-1, tarsi 1-4. (Descr. maris 
adulti ex Duenas. Mus. nostr.) . 
© mari similis, sed torque prepectorali cinnamomeo-fulvo pallidiore distinguenda. Long. tota 9°5, ale 6-4. 
(Descr. feminee adulte ex Mazatlan. Mus. nostr.) 
Hab. Temperate Norta America, breeding northward to Newfoundland and Mani- 
toba 31,—Mexico 35, Sonora, Bisbee, Greenbush Ranch, Pachico (Robinette *°), 
Hermosillo 4°, Ixtapalapa *°, Mexicalcingo 4°, Chimalapa ‘4°, Chapulco, Puebla 1’, 
San Baltazar 4°, Mayorazzo 4° (Ferrari-Perez), Rio de Iglesias, Chihuahua (Lloyd *°), 
Nuevo Leon (Armstrong *), Matamoros and throughout the entire State of 
Tamaulipas (Berlandier**), Aldama, Tampico, Calvillo, Aguas Calientes, Jerez, 
' Zacatecas, Calotlan and Lake Chapala, Jalisco (Aichardson*°), Valley of Mexico 
(Herrera 26), city of Mexico (White™), Mazatlan (Grayson *°, Forrer*®), 
Guanajuato, Guadalajara (Dugés®), Cofre de Perote, Vera Cruz, Patzcuaro 
(F. D. G.*), Vega del Cazadero (Trujillo *°), Oaxaca (Boucard 1° 4°), Jalapa 
(Sallé8, de Oca®, Ferrari-Perez""), Teapa (Mrs. H. H. Smith*), Santa Efigenia, 
Tehuantepec (Sumichrast *1), Sisal, Yucatan (Schott !°), Peto (Gaumer *°), Progreso 
(Stone & Baker ?"), Cozumel I. (Benedict *°, Gaumer *3 4°); British Honpuras, 
Cayo (Blancaneaua *°); GuaTEMALA (Constancia?*), Duefias, Quezaltenango, San 
Gerénimo (0.8. & F. D. G. 7 4°), Panajachel, Atitlan (Richardson *°) ; Honpuras, 
Tigré Island and Plains of Comayagua (Taylor +), San Pedro (Whitely !*), Omoa 
(Leyland ®); Nicaragua, San Juan del Sur °°, Sucuya *” (Nutting), Rio Escondido 
(Richmond °°); Costa Rica, San José (v. Frantzius®, Carmiol °, Boucard *4, 
Cherrie 8), Miravalles *, Tambor, Laguna de Coris, slopes of Irazu (Underwood, 
in litt.), Alajuela, Cartago (Zeledon*+); Panama (M‘Leannan 38), Divala, 
Chiriqui (Brown *), southern slope of Volcan de Chiriqui (Arcé ¥ 4°).—Soutu 
America to Chile 4°; West Inpies*°; Brermupa Is. 49, 
The Kildeer Plover, so called from its cry, is a well-known North-American bird, 
