224 CHARADRIIDZ 
KILLDEER PLOVER. yialitis vocifera (Linneus). 
Coloured Figures.—Dresser, ‘ Birds of Europe,’ vol. ix, pl. 708; 
Lilford, ‘ Coloured Figures,’ vol. v, pl. 13. 
The Killdeer Plover is an exceedingly rare wanderer 
from America. There are but three British records :— 
(a) A specimen said to have been taken in Hampshire, 
(Christchurch), April, 1859 (Sclater, ‘ [bis,’ 1862, p. 276). 
(b) A bird shot at Tresco, in the Scilly Isles, on January 
15th, 1885 (‘ Zoologist,’ 1835, p. 113). 
(c) In ‘ Knowledge and Scientific News’ for August, 
1904, vol. i, p. 187, Mr. W. P. Pycraft writes that he has 
found in University Museum, Aberdeen, an example of 
Killdeer Plover (Avg. voc.) which had been erroneously 
labelled as the Ringed Plover (47g. hiat), shot at Peter- 
head, in 1867, by Mr. Andrew Murray. This is the third 
record from Britain. 
DESCRIPTIVE CHARACTERS. 
PLUMAGE. Adult male nuptial.—Forehead, white, above 
which is a black band; behind the eye there is a white line ; 
top of head, cheeks, hind-neck, back, scapulars, and wing- 
coverts, brown; alar bar, white; some of the long inner 
secondaries margined with rufous ; primaries, dark brown, 
marked with white ; lower back, and basal portion of the tail, 
reddish-brown ; terminal part of the tail banded with black 
and tipped with white; throat, breast, and abdomen, white, 
interrupted by two black bands across the base of the neck. 
Adult female nuptial—Similar to the male plumage. 
Adult winter, male and female.—Resembles the nuptial 
plumage, but the back and wings are darker brown. 
Immature, male and female.— Resembles the adult 
plumage except that the feathers of the back and wings 
are margined with greyish-red. 
Beak. Black. 
Fret. Yellowish-grey. 
Iripres. Brown. 
Eaas. Creamy-white, blotched with dark purple-brown : 
clutch, four. 
AVERAGE MEASUREMENTS. 
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