66 CONNECTICUT GEOL. AND NAT. HIST. SURVEY. [Bull. 



B. B.) ; July 28, 1894, Bloomfield, adult and young (W. E. T., 

 in coll. of L. B. B.) ; Aug. 18, 1894, East Haven, three shot, 

 Aug. 21, one shot (recorded by H. W. F.) ; July 9, 1896, East 

 Hartford, adult and young (W. E. T., in coll. of L. B. B.) ; May, 

 1901, Newtown (Hamlin) ; March 6, 1902, Stony Creek (in coll. 

 of L. B. B.) ; July 17-18, 1905, Mt. Tom (H. Sanford) ; Oct. 8, 

 1906, one, Oct. 11, three, Oct. 13, one shot, West Haven (A. 

 Ganung, in coll. of L. B. B.) ; Nov. 6. 1908, Middletown (in coll. 

 of J. H. S.) ; March 18, 191 1, Milford, male (H. W. B.) ; Oct. 

 2j, 191 1, West Haven (H. K. J.). 



Breeding records. According to Merriam, 1 W. W. C. in- 

 formed him (1877) that it bred on Plum Island and in the 

 vicinity of Portland ; Guilford, two eggs collected many years 

 ago (E. C. M. Hall, in Peabody Museum) ; " about twenty years 

 ago," a set of eggs taken in Winchester by Williams (H. K. J.) ; 2 

 May 14, 1898, Darien, four eggs taken (Howes) ; 3 July, 1901, 

 Bridgewater, nest with four eggs found (recorded by G. L. Ham- 

 lin) ; 1906, Danbury, a pair watched nesting and rearing their 

 young (G. L. Hamlin). Formerly nested in Bloomfield in con- 

 siderable numbers. 



An unusual flight of Killdeer took place along the New Eng- 

 land coast the latter part of November, 1888. Only two speci- 

 mens, however, were reported from Connecticut. 4 



iEgialitis semipalmata (Bonaparte). Semipalmated Plover. 



A common spring and fall migrant along the coast in May, 

 August, and September; rare inland. 



Spring migration. Earliest record. New Haven, May II, 

 1897; East Haven, May 1, 1880 (Woolsey). Latest record. New 

 Haven, June 1, 1894. 



Fall migration. Earliest record. New Haven, July 30, 1896. ' 

 Latest record. New Haven, Oct. 31, 1902. 



Inland records. June 4, 1875, Portland, female taken by C. 

 H. N. (in coll. of J. H. S.) ; Sept. 17, 1891, East Hartford, one 

 shot (W. E. T.) ; May 22, 1894, Portland, specimen shot by C. 

 H. N. ; June 3, 1905, Litchfield (E. S. W.). 



1 Merriam, Birds of Conn., p. 102. 

 "Job, The Sport of Bird Study, p. 296. 

 3 O bio gist, xxviii, 191 1, p. 151. 

 4 Chadbourne, Auk, vi. 3, pp. 255-263. 



