iEGIALITIS VOCIFERDS. 603 



foot-hills of the Sierra Nevada, where it seemed to be an abundant sj)ecies. 



It continued along our route up to the beginning of the continuous j)ino 



forest, or to an altitude of about 5,000 feet, where a specimen, a line adult 



male, was killed among the brushwood of a ravine by the roadside. There 



were evidently others in the locality, since the one killed was in a small 



tree, anxiously calling, his note being a sharp chip, almost exactly like the 



common note of the Cardinal Grosbeak {Cardinalis virginianus). We 



unfortunately had little opportunity to observe the habits of this beautiful 



species. 



List of specimens. 



316, ^ ad.; 317, 3 ad.; 318, 9 ad.; "Coast of California, near San Francisco." 

 (H. G. Parker.) 



Family CHARADRIID J]— Plovers. 



-^GIALITIS VOCIFEKUS. 

 Kill-deer. 



Charodriui vociferus, Linn., Syst. Nat, I, 1766. 253. 



^giaUtis vociferm, BoNAP., Comp. & Geog. List, 1838, 45.— Oassin, in Baird's 

 Birds N. Am., 1858, 692.— Baird, Cat. N. Am. Birds, 1859, No. 504,-CoUES, 

 Key, 1872, 244, fig. 156; Clieck List, 1873, No. 397; Birds N.W., 1874, 453 

 (vocifera). — Henshaw, 1875, 445. 



The common Kill-deer was found to be by far the most abundant and 

 generally distributed bird of the order, since it was found about every 

 stream or other body of water, while it was common wherever it occuiTed. 

 It was also resident, but more numerous in summer than in winter. 



List of specimens. 



431, i ad.; Carson City, Nevada, March 7, 1868. lOJ— 20.^—7— 5§. Bill, black ; 



iris, bister; eyelids, orange-red; tarsi and toes, pale ashy uaplesyellow. 



472, i ad.; Carson City, March 28, 1868. 10-20^-6}^ — 5§. Same remarks, 

 1154, eggs (4); Antelope Island, Great Salt Lake, June 9, 1869. Eggs deposited 



on the bare sand, in a slight depression, near the shore. 



