160 CHARADRIID^K. 



-ffigialitis VOCifera. KILLDEER PLOVER. 



Charadrius vociferus, Linnaeus, S. N. i. p. 253 



(1766). 



Charadrius vociferus, Gray, p. 142. 

 ^Egialitis vocifera, Gould) Introd. p. cix. 

 ^Egialitis vociferus, Harting, p. 134. 



Vocifera = that cries out, screams ; from vox = voice, and fero = I bear. 

 From its peculiar piercing note. 



One was shot near Christchurch, Hants, April 1857 

 (Sclater, < Ibis/ 1862, p. 275). It inhabits both North and 

 South America. U L (/ti(f* - l/ti } ylHi,-v%l 



Genus EUDROMIAS, C. L. Brehm, Vog. Deutschl. p. 545 



(1831). 



Eudromias = eudpopias, good runner ; from ev -\- dpopos. 



Eudromias morinellus. DOTTEREL. 



Charadrius Morinellus, Linn&us, S. N. i. p. 254 



(1766). 



Charadrius morinellus, Naum. vii. p. 163 ; Hewitson, p. 293 ; 



Gray, p. 140; Yarr. ed. 2, ii. p. 455; id. ed. 3, ii. 



p. 484. 



Pluvialis morinellus, Macg. iv. p. 104. 

 Eudromias morinellus, Gould, iv. pi. 43 ; Harting, p. 43 ; 



Dresser, vii. p. 507. 

 The Dotterel, Yarr. ed. 1, ii. p. 392. 



Morinellus, diminutive of morus /iwpos, a simpleton. Cf. Dotterel = a 

 little dolt. 



Breeds in Scotland, the northern counties of England, and 

 possibly in Ireland, being only a spring and autumn migrant 

 in other portions of the United Kingdom. This species is 

 not found out of the western Palsearctic Region (where it is 

 widely distributed) except in the winter, when it migrates 

 into North Africa. 



