LIMIOOLAE— CHARADEIIDAE— AEGIALITIS VOCIFERA. 



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Order LIMICOLAE: Shore Birds. 



Fam. CHARADHIIDAE: Plovers. 



AEGIALITIS VOCIFERA (Linn.). 



Killdeer Plover. 



Charadrlus vociferus, Linn., Syst. Nat., i, 170G, 253 'based on Pluvial is vnci/ems, 

 Gates.).— Bd., Stans. Rep. Exp. Great Salt Lake, 1852, 319.— Woodh., Sit- 

 greave's Exp. Zuni & Col. Riv., 1854, 96.— Newb., P. R. R. Rep., vi, 1857, 

 97.— Heeem., p. R. R. Rep., x, 1859, pt. iv, 63. 



JEgialitis vociferus, Bd., Birds N. A., 1858, 692.— Coop. & StiOKL., P. R. R. Rep., xii, pt. ii, 

 1800, 230.— Xantus, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Pbila., 1859, 192 (Fort Tejon, 

 Cal.).— Bd., U. S. & Mex. Bound. Surv., ii, pt. ii, 1859, Birds, 25.— Ken- 

 NERLY, P. R. R. Rep., WLipple's Route, x, 1859, 34.— Bd., Proc. Acad. Nat. 

 Sci. Phila., 1859, 300 (Cape Saint Lucas).— Hayd., Trans. Am. Phil. Soc, 

 xii, 1862, 173.— CouES, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Pbila., 1866, 96 (Fort Whipple, 

 Ariz.).— /</., ib., 1868, 84.- Stev., U. S. Geol. Surv. Terr., 1870, 466.— 

 Allen, Bui. Mus. Comp. Zotil., 1872, 181.— Coues, Key N. A. Birds, 1872, 

 244, f. 156.— Snow, Birds Kan., 1872, 13.— Hold, apud Aiken, Proc. Bost. 

 Soc. Nat. Hist., xv, 1872, 209.— Merriam, U. S. Geol. Surv. Terr., 1872, 

 699.— Yarrow & Henshaw, Rep. Orn. Specs., 1872, Wheeler's Exped., 

 1874, 28.— Henshaw, Rep. Orn. Specs., 1873, Wheeler's Exped., 1874, 68, 

 93, 144.— Allen, Proc. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist., June, 1874, 16, 18, 36.— 

 Coues, Birds Northwest, 1874, 452. 



Oxtjcchus vociferus, Henry, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1859, 108 (New Mexico). 



There is little occasion to particularize localities inhabited by this 

 jtlover, since it is found throughout North America. Throughout the 



