KILLDEER PLOVER 



PLATE CLV.* FIGURE I. 

 ^Egialitis vocifera, LINNAEUS. 



A SINGLE example of this American species has been 

 recorded as having been killed in England, and a 

 second in the Scilly Islands. 



The nest is, as with many others of such birds, a mere 

 hollow in the ground, lined only, so far as it is lined at all, 

 with a few bits of dry grass, among which are found small 

 pieces of shells, but these, I should imagine, introduced 

 accidentally, and not intentionally ; sometimes it is made on 

 a heap of seaweed. 



The eggs, generally four in number, are of a yellowish 

 stone-colour, or pale buff spotted and variously marked with 

 blackish brown. 



