.EG I A LIT IS 741 



$ ad. (Southern Europe). Differs from &. hiaticola in being much 

 smaller, and in having the shaft of the first primary alone white, those of 

 the rest of the quills brown ; bill black with a small yellow patch at the 

 base of the lower mandible ; legs deep fleshy yellow ; iris brown, the edge 

 of the eyelid yellow. Culmen 0'62, wing 4'33, tail 2'3, tarsus 0'95 inch. 



Hob. Europe generally, north to Southern Scandinavia; of 

 very accidental occurrence in the south of England ; Northern 

 Africa in winter ; Asia east to Japan ; north to Dauria, south 

 in summer in Mongolia, Manchuria, China, and Northern India, 

 wintering in Southern India, the Moluccas, and as far south as 

 New Guinea ; of doubtful occurrence in N.W. America. 



In general habits this bird resembles .&. hiaticola, but 

 affects the vicinity of inland water, such as the banks of rivers 

 and the shores of inland lakes and ponds, especially where the 

 ground is sandy or pebbly. Its note is slightly different and 

 more shrill than that of its larger ally. It nests on sandy or 

 pebbly ground, or, as I noticed in Spain, it frequently makes 

 use of a dry patch of cow-dung ; and it makes no nest. Its 

 eggs, 4 in number, are usually deposited in May, and are 

 stone-buff or stone-ochreous, rather finely spotted with purplish 

 grey underlying shell-, and blackish brown surface-markings, 

 measuring about 1*21 by 0'85. 



1033. KILLDEER PLOVER. 

 7EGIALITIS VOCIFERA. 



^Efjlalitis vocifera (Linn.), Syst. Nat. i. p. 253 (1766) ; (Audubon), B. of 

 Am. pi. 215 ; Dresser, ix. p. 345, pi. 708 ; (Sharpe), Cat. B. Br. 

 Mus. xxiv. p. 242 ; Ridgway, p. 174 ; Saunders, p. 545 ; Lilford, v. 

 p. 37, pi. 13 ; Poynting, p. 37, pi. 9. 



Tildeo, Mexican ; Pijije, in Costa Rica. 



ad. (New Jersey). Forehead, stripe above and behind the eye, chin, 

 throat, collar round the hind neck, and under parts generally, white ; fore 

 crown, stripe from the lores through the eye, collar round the lower neck, 

 and a band across the breast black ; upper parts warm brown ; larger 

 wing-coverts tipped with white ; middle tail-feathers brown, the next 

 orange at the base, then black tipped with white, the outer ones white 

 tinged with rufous, and barred with black ; upper tail-coverts rufous ; bill 

 black ; legs dull greenish ; iris brown ; eyelids orange-red. Culmen 0'92, 

 wing 6'35, tail 3*8, tarsus 1'45 inch. Sexes alike. The young have the 

 feathers on the upper parts margined with pale rufous. 



Hob. The whole of temperate North America, wintering in 

 the West Indies, Central America, and the northern portions of 



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