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1809 respectively. Wiirttemberg secured it at Mirebalais. Abbott 

 shot specimens at Mole, St. Nicolas March 19, and Baie des Mous- 

 tiques May 5, 1917, and one at the Etang Saumatre March 5, 1918. 

 On March 29 and 30, 1927, Wetmore found one feeding along the 

 muddy overflow of the sulphur spring at Sources Puantes on the 

 coast north of Port-au-Prince, and April 3 saw a number with other 

 waders about a lagoon at Aquin. At Hinche on April 23 and 24 

 a pair was found on a barren, stony knoll far from water. From 

 their actions they appeared to have a nest or young. Near Caracol 

 killdeer were seen in open ground at Poste Charbert xlpril 26, and 

 near the coast on April 27. Danforth in 1927 found them at the 

 Etang Bois-Neuf , on the sloughs near the mouth of the Artibonite, 

 at Les Salines, Gonai'ves, Les Cayes, and on Gonave Island. 



Bond found them at the fitang Miragoane, Trou Caiman, fitang 

 Saumatre, Ennery, and Port-de-Paix. Poole and Perrygo secured 

 skins at St. Michel January 14, and Fort Liberie February 11, 1929. 

 They recorded these birds also at Cerca- la-Source from March 18 

 to 24, 1929. 



W. L. Abbott secured a set of three eggs May 30, 1917, at Jean. 

 Rabel Anchorage, brought to him by a boy who found them in a 

 nest on a pebbly sea beach. These eggs have the ground color 

 slightly brighter than pale olive-buff, spotted irregularly with black, 

 a few of the markings being partly concealed so that they appear 

 slate gray. The spots are rather evenly distributed over the surface 

 but with the larger, heavier ones on the larger end. The markings 

 on the average are angular or drawn out into short lines. One of 

 the eggs is less profusely marked than the other two. They measure 

 as follows : 36.5 by 28.1, 36.7 by 28.0, and 36.7 by 27.9 mm. 



Following are measurements of birds from Hispaniola. 



Four males, wing 145.0-157.0 (151.0), tail 84.3-93.4 (88.5) , oilmen 

 from base 18.5-20.7 (19.7), tarsus 33.7-35.0 58 (34.6) mm. 



Three females, wing 155.0-160.0, tail 82.9-90.0 (86.4), culmen from 

 base 20.7-20.9 (20.8), tarsus 33.9-36.7 (36.0) mm. 



The Tourterelle, de St. Dominique, figured by Daubenton (Planch. 

 Enl. No. 487) is evidently an artifact made with the body of a mourn- 

 ing dove {Zenaidura macroura), and the head and upper neck of 

 a killdeer. 



The killdeer is as large as a thrush with grayish brown back, 

 rufous brown rump and upper tail coverts, and white forehead and 

 under surface, with two black bands across the chest, a black band 

 across the front of the head and a white line behind the eye. As 

 the bird raises its long wings in flight prominent white markings 

 are displayed on the flight feathers. 



58 Average of three. 



