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OXYECHUS VOCIFERUS VOCIFERUS (Linnaeus) 

 XILLDEER 



Charadrius vociferus Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, vol. 1, 1758, p. 150 (Vir- 

 ginia and Carolina). 



Oxyechus vociferus (rubidus"!), Moltoni, Att. Soc. Ital. Scienz. Nat., vol. 

 68, 1929, p. 312 (Moca, specimens). 



Migrant from North America; apparently rare. 



Among specimens secured by Poole and Perrygo at Fort Liberte, 

 Haiti is a female of the killdeer from North America, taken Feb- 

 ruary 19, 1929. This specimen has the following measurements, 

 wing 170.0, tail 92.0, culmen from base 20.7, and tarsus 37.9 mm., 

 having the larger size and darker coloration above that mark the 

 typical race of this bird. As this is the first record for the island 

 the abundance of this form as a winter migrant is uncertain. 



It is possible that specimens recorded by Moltoni from Moca 

 November 25, 1926 and January 7, 1927, may also be this form as 

 he records the wing in two females as 166 and 167 mm., and in 

 one male as 165 mm. 



OXYECHUS VOCIFERUS RUBIDUS Riley 

 WEST INDIAN KILLDEER, PLAYERO, PRAILECITO, COLLIER 



Oxyechus vociferus rubidus Riley, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, vol. 22, 

 April 17, 1909, p. 88 (Santo Doiningo=Hispaniola). 



Pluvier a collier, de St. Domingue, Daubenton, Planch. Enl. No. 286. 



Collier, Saint-Mery, Descrip. Part. Fraug. lie Saint-Doiningue, vol. 1, 1797, 

 p. 262 (Dondon).— Descourtilz, Yoy. Nat., vol. 2, 1809, pp. 211-212 (Haiti). 



Kildir, Buffon, Hist. Nat. Ois., vol. 8, 1781, p. 97 (" Saint-Domingue"). 



Killdeer, Beck, Nat. Hist., vol. 21, 1921, p. 39 (above Tubano). 



Pluvialis Dominicensis torquata Brisson, Ornith., vol. 5, 1760, pp. 71-74, pi. 

 6, fig. 2. ("S. Domingue.") 



Charadrius vociferus, Bitter, Naturh. Eeis. Westind. Insel Hayti, 1S36, p. 

 157 (listed). — Hartlatjb, Naumannia, 1852, p. 53 (Mirebalais). — Bryant, Proc. 

 Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., vol. 11, May, 1867, p. 97 (Dominican Republic). 



JEgialites vociferus, Salle, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1857, p. 236 (Dominican 

 Republic). 



^Egialitis vociferus, Cory, Birds Haiti and San Domingo, Dec, 1884, pp. 

 141-142 (listed) ; Cat. Birds West Indies, 1892, p. 95 (Haiti, Dominican Re- 

 public). — Tristram, Cat. Coll. Birds belonging H. B. Tristram, 1889, p. 266 

 (Dominican Republic, specimen). — Tippenhauer, Die Insel Haiti, 1892, pp. 317, 

 322 (listed).— Cherrie, Field Col. Mus., Ornith. ser., vol. 1, 1896, p. 25 (Do- 

 minican Republic). — Christy, Ibis, 1897, p. 337 (La Vega. Puerto Plata). — 

 Verrill, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 1909, p. 356 (El Valle, Sanchez, 

 Samana., La Vega). 



Oxyechus vociferus, Forbes and Robinson, Bull. Liverpool Mus., vol. 2, 1S99, 

 p. 66 (Almercen). 



Oxyechus vociferus rubidus, Peters, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., vol. 61, 1917, p. 

 404 (Jaibon, Gaspar Hernandez).— Beebe, Zool. Soc. Bull., vol. 30, 1927, p. 139; 



