170 BIRDS OF THE NEW YORK CITY REGION 



deW. Miller saw a Golden Plover on a golf course near Plainfield. 

 On September 17, 1922 Mr. Urner found two birds on an extensive 

 area of burned meadow south of Newark; these birds were ap- 

 proached within 30 yards, and watched on the ground for over ten 

 minutes. 



Photograph by A. A. Allen 



Fig. 13. Killdeer. 



KILLDEER (Oxyechus vociferus) Fig. 13 

 The Killdeer is a bird with a peculiarly erratic distribu- 

 tion in our area, for which no ready explanation is at hand. 

 In our section of New York State it is a rare summer resident 

 and rare or uncommon transient. In New Jersey it is a com- 

 mon summer resident west of a line running north and south 

 about twenty miles west of the Hudson River. East of this 

 line it is rare and local in summer, and rare as a transient. 

 Its most marked characteristic is its noisiness, and where it 



