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lli<>-27ti |.'>S1 I. C'haratlriiis (loiiiiuieiis .1//*//. Amkrtcan (ioLDKX Plover; Green- 



liACK. 



CoQimon; throughout the state; April and Oct.: migrant. This bird is not men- 

 tioned by Dr. H. A. Atkins, but it has been taken here repeatedly; Mr. Jerome Trom- 

 V)ley repcjrts it as a common migrant near Lake Erie; " large flocks appeared at Lan- 

 sing in Sept.. 1890. and many were killed " (^J. E. Nichols); taken at Plymouth by J. B. 

 Purdy; "Keweenaw Point'' (Kneeland); "common transient in the autumn, but rarely 

 seen in spring, often in large flocks, most abundant about Sept. 28. in Kalamazoo Go.'" 

 (Dr. M. Gibbs). 



Genus .^-^GIALITIS Boie. 



Kilideer, nainral size. 



127 27;5-(>>S4). .Egialitis vocil'era (Lz'n*).). *Kili.i>ker; Killoeer Plover; Ring 

 Plover. 

 Very abundant; throughout the entire state; common from March to Dec: often 

 seen in winter; valuable as a destroyer of insects: our most common plover; frequents 

 gardens, pastures and roadsides: "Mackinac Lsland" (S. E. White); "occasional at Iron 

 Mountain ■' (E. E. Brewster); breeds: nests often as early as March, on the ground, 

 usually on a knoll, in gardens and pastures: eggs four, yellowish white, spotted with 

 dark brown. Dr. Brownell writes me that the eggs are always arranged in the form of 

 a cross with the small or pointed ends towards the center. 



llI.S-274 |5<S<>j. .Egialiti^i seiiiipaliiiata /jojui^j. *Semii'alm.\tei) Plover; Ring 

 Plover: Rini; Neck. 

 Common; migrant; Maj' and Sept.: Jerome Trombley has taken it in Monroe Co.; 

 "Upper Peninsula" (A. H. Boies); "Keweenaw Point" (Kneeland); taken by J. B. 

 Purdy at Plymouth; "common at Moi-rice " (Dr. W. C. Brownell); said to be a summer 

 resident north. We have taken this bird here at the college in early spring. Dr, 

 Atkins reports taking one at Locke Aug. 10. 1884; " northern part of Indiana"' (Butler's 

 Birds of Indiana). 



129-277 (5S7 1. .Kgialitis lueloda (Ord). Pii'in(. Plover; Pii-inc; Ring Plover. 



Rather rare; migrant; "rare migrant in Monroe Co." (Jerome Trombley); " I have 

 shot it as a migrant in Allegan Co."' (S. E. White): embraced in the lists of Hughes. 

 Boies. Covert and Gibbs. These notes may refer to the next species. 



