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has taken many specimens at Buffalo. Bond finds them rather 

 common at Cheyenne during migration. Jesurun reports them 

 common at Douglas and breeding. Cary found them rather 

 abundant about Newcastle during the summer months. There 

 are two specimens in the University collection one of which 

 was taken on the Little Medicine river and the other on the 

 Laramie Plains. I have found these birds all over the state 

 during the summer. 



PLOVERS. 



270. Charadrius squatarola (Linn.) 

 Black-bellied Plover. 

 Migratory and very rare. Cook has reported eight Colo- 

 rado records and states that the bird is confined to the plains 

 below 5,000 feet. The only Wyoming record is from Bond, 

 who has taken a single bird at Cheyenne, which is over 6,000 

 feet elevation. 



272. Charadrius dominicus Mull. 



American Golden Plover. 

 Migratory ; quite rare. Bond reports them as rare at Chey- 

 enne and Cones reports one specimen taken at Rock Creek. 



273. iEgialitis vocifera (Linn.). 



Killdeer. 

 Summer resident and very common in suitable places. They 

 are among the earliest birds to arrive from the south, and have 

 been known to reach the Laramie plains before the ice was out 

 of the streams or the lakes open. One specimen in the Uni- 

 versity collection was taken at Laramie on March 16th. All 

 of the collectors of birds in Wyoming have noted these noisy 

 fellows and the records are too voluminous to publish. I have 

 noted them breeding at 8,000 feet, but not above, nor have I 

 ever seen them about alpine lakes. 



