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Beneath Tropic Seas, 1928, p. 220 (Haiti).— Bond, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila- 

 delphia, vol. SO, 1928, p. 496 (Itltang Miragoane, Trou Caiman, litang Saumatre, 

 Ennery, Port-de-Paix). — Danforth, Auk, 1929, p. 363 (many localities). 



Resident ; locally distributed. Following are records of occurrence : 



Dominican Republic: — San Juan (Wetmore); Lake Enriquillo 

 (Abbott) ; Saona Island (Abbott) ; El Valle, Sanchez, Samana, La 

 Vega (Verrill) ; Almercen, or Rivas (Forbes and Robinson) ; Jaibon, 

 Gaspar Hernandez, Monte Cristi (Peters) ; Constanza (Abbott, 

 Wetmore) ; base of Loma Tina above Tubano (Beck) ; Higiiey, 

 Seibo, Hato Mayor, Haina, San Cristobal, Vasquez, Monte Cristi, 

 Laguna del Salodillo, Dajabon, San Juan (Danforth). 



Haiti : — Baie des Moustiques, M61e St. Nicolas, (Abbott) ; Etang 

 Saumatre (Abbott, Bond) : Glore, near Port-au-Prince (Bartsch) ; 

 Trou Caiman (Bartsch, Bond) ; Sources Puantes, Aquin, Hinche. 

 Caracol (Wetmore) ; Mirebalais (Wiirttemberg) ; Dondon (Saint- 

 Mery) ; Ennery, Port-de-Paix (Bond) ; St. Michel, Fort Liberte, 

 Cerca-la-Source (Poole and Perrygo) ; Etang Bois-Neuf, Sloughs 

 near mouth of Artibonite, Les Salines, Gonaives, Les Cayes, Gonave 

 Island (Danforth). 



The killdeer is found in open meadows or fields, marshy savannas 

 or bare, open playas where it walks or runs over the ground pausing 

 at intervals to teeter slightly, uttering its clear calls of kill deer, kill 

 deer at the slightest alarm. When at a distance it often turns its 

 brown back toward the observer and then blends almost perfectly 

 into its background. The bird may be less abundant now than 

 formerly, as Verrill, in 1909, reported it common at a number of 

 localities. It ranges from the coast to the higher elevations of the 

 island wherever there is open country suited to its needs. Abbott 

 collected a specimen at Constanza in the high interior May 11, 1919, 

 and Wetmore found several there from May 18 to 21, 1927, and col- 

 lected a female. They were found on prairies and pastures in the 

 open valleys. Beck reports them from a high meadow above 

 Tubano at the base of Loma Tina. 



Forbes and Robinson 5r record the killdeer from Almercen (now 

 known as Rivas). Cherrie noted it as fairly common along water 

 courses near the coast, and secured one that contained a nearly de- 

 veloped egg on March 24. Abbott recorded it at Lake Enriquillo, 

 October 1 to 6, 1919, Peters collected six at Jaibon, and Gaspar 

 Hernandez, and saw others at Monte Cristi. Danforth in 1927 found 

 it at Higiiey, Seibo, Hato Mayor, Haina, San Cristobal, Vasquez, 

 Monte Cristi, Laguna del Salodillo, Dajabon, and San Juan. 



In Haiti, Brisson reports the killdeer in 1760, and Saint-Mery 

 and Descourtilz recorded it under the name " collier " in 1797 and 



"Bull. Liverpool Mus., vol. 2, 1899, p. 66. 



