^GIALITIS VOCIFERUS. 603 



foot-hills of the Sierra Nevada, Avhere it seemed to be an abiiudant species. 

 It continued along our route up to the beginning of the continuous i:)ine 

 forest, or to an altitude of about 5,000 feet, where a specimen, a fine 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 specimem. 



316, (f ad.; 317, S ad.; 318, 9 ad.; " (Joast of California, near Sau Frauclsco." 

 (H. G. Parker.) 



Family CHARADEIIDJ]— Ploveks. 



J^IGIALITIS VOCIFERUS. 

 Kill-deer. 



Charadrius voci/erus, Linn., Syst. Nat., I, 1766. 253. 



.MgiaUtis rociferus, Bonap., Couip. & Geog. List, 1838, 45.— Cassin, iu Baird's 

 Birds N. Am., 1858, 092.— Baird, Cat. N. Am. Birds, 1859, No. 504.-Coues, 

 Key, 1872, 244, fig. 150; Clieck List, 1873, No. 397; Birds N.VV., 1874, 452 

 [voclfera). — 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 occurred. 

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



List of specimens. 



431, $ ad.; Carson City, Nevada, Marcli 7, 1868. lOJ— 204-^7— 5§. Bill, black ; 

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



472, $ ad.; Carson City, March 28, 1808. 10— 20J— Off— 5f . 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. 



