BlKDS OI' INDIANA. 



waders, over the grass and moss-grown country, extending along the 

 shore of Bering Sea. They occasionally lay by June 1. Dall found 

 it common along the Yukon. Nelson says its clear, plaintive call-note 

 may be represented by the syllables too-lu-e, and also gives an inter- 

 pretation of its song. (N. H. Coll., in Alaska, p. 124.) 



Mr. J. Gr. Parker, Jr., says the young return in August ahead of the 

 older birds. He has observed them in Cook County about August 10, 

 1889. According to migration reports of 1885, they were noted that 

 year at Fernwood, 111., July 15; next seen, August 3; common, August 

 20; disappeared, October 12. They vary in abundance through Au- 

 gust, September and early October. Some few, however, remain some 

 years well into November. They were last noted as follows in the 

 years indicated: Cook County, 111., 1883, October 6; 1893, September 

 19 (Parker); 1895, October 26 (Blackwelder); Boone County, Ind., 

 1894, September 29 (Beasley); Starke County, English Lake, 1891, a 

 few, November 9; 1892, one, November 15 (Deane). Ordinarily they 

 do not frequent the reedy marshes and swamps, but the long-con- 

 tinued drouth transformed the marshes at English Lake, those years, 

 into "muddy flats," and a few Golden Plover were found on them. 



60. GBNUB ^EGUALITIS BOIE. 



a 1 . Tail half the length of wing or more; rump pale brownish; two black bands 



on breast. Subgenus OXYECHUS Keichenbach. A. vocifera (LiNN.). 115 



a 2 . Tail less than half as long as wing; rump same color as back; breast with one 



band or none. Subgenus ^EGIALITIS. 



ft 1 . All toes distinctly webbed at base. A. semipalmata Bonap. 116 



6 2 . No web between the base of inner and middle toe. 

 c 1 . Black band across breast wholly or partially interrupted in middle. 



A. meloda (Ord). 117 

 c 2 . Black band continuous across breast. 



A. meloda circumcincta Ridgw. 118 



Subgenus OXYKCHUS Reichenbach. 



*115. (273). ^Igialitis vocifera (LINN.). 



Killdeer. 

 Synonym, KILLDEER PLOVER. 



Adult. Quaker-brown, with a greenish tinge, sometimes most of 

 the feathers tipped and edged with orange-brown; rump and upper 

 tail coverts, oohraceous; breast, crossed by two black bands; forehead 

 and entire under parts, except as stated, white; bill, black; feet, pale; 

 eyelids, scarlet. Immature. Similar to adult, but feathers of upper 

 parts more or less distinctly margined with pale rusty or ochraceous. 



