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148 PUJ-X'OCIAL GUALLAKtUES — LIMICoLJ:. 



Ozyechus vocifems. 



THE KILDEEB PLOVEB. 



nhnradnit.1 vnn/criia, LiNN. S. N. ed. 10, I. \7M, luU ; vd. V>, I. 1766, 258. — Wii.s. Am. Orn. VII. 



181it, 7;), i>l. uit, life'. 6. — XuTT. Man. II. \x:H, ii. — Ai D. Oiii. Biog. III. ISafi, 191 : V. 1839, 



.'i77, pi. 225 ; Syiiop. 1S3U, 222 ; B. Am. V. 1842, 207, pi. 317. 

 ^'li/ilis riifl/i'fu.i, I'xiNAl'. Coiiip. Li»t, 1838, 45. — ('.Vssin in Iliiinrs B. N. Am. 1858, 692.— 



lUiiiK, tat. X. Am. IJ. l.S5!t, no. 504. — CofEs, Kry, 1872, 244 ', Check List, 1874, no. 397 ; 



2(1 c<l. 1882, no. .181. 

 Oxi/frlinn fiM-i/fi-iin, lii:i( II. Sy.st. Av. 1853, pi. xviii. — HiDGW. Noin. N. Am. U. 1881, no, 516. 

 Chni-iiilriii.s tiirqiiiihtii, \AS\. S. N. 1. 1766, 255. 

 Charndnu-1 jmii" iccn.iis, fi.Mi:i.. S. X. I. 1788, 685. 



Had. The wlioli- of ti'in]icrat(! Xoitli Anu-riia, inij,'ratiiig in winter into tropical America as I'ar 

 as New (Jranadii ; West Indies in jji'iienil ; Beriiiudas ; River Avon, Enj,'lan(l (tide ScL., Ibis, 

 18(i2, 2".") ; one specimen taiien April, 18.57). 



Si', (.'hah. All "If: Pileiim and upper parts generally, grayish brown, inclining to umber, 

 rump and ujtper tail-coverts ncliraceons-rufous, lighter on the latter. Forehead and broad super- 

 ciliary stripe, throat, nuchal colliu-, and lower parts, white. Fore part of the crown, loral stripe, 

 continual toward occiput, coUur round neck, and band across breast, black. Primaries dusky, the 



inner quills marked on outer webs with white. Tail chiefly pale ochmceous-nifous, variegated 

 with wliite, dusky, and grayish, chiefly towanl the end. Bill Idack ; iris dark brown ; eyeliils 

 (in life) orange-red or scarlet ; legs and feet pale pinkish grayish, or pale grayish yellow. 



Yovy>(j: Similar to the adult, but feathers of the upper parts more or less con.spicuously mar- 

 gined with pale rusty or I'ulvous. 



Dnwmj Yimwj: Upper parts genemlly, including pilcum, light grayish brown, the two areas of 

 this color boundeil all rouml by black, a wide 'ollar of which cro.s.ses the Juguluni, and, extending 

 across the nape beneath a broad white collar, completely encircles the neck ; a broad bar of velvety 

 black down the middle of the humeral region, and a narrow, more interrupted stripe of the same 

 down the rump. Forelieail, throat, lower parts generally, " hand-wing," and posterior border of 

 the humerus, pure wliite ; the flanks and crissum more isal)ella-color ; n narrow black line run- 

 ning from the rictus to the eye. 



Total lengtli, about 10 inches ; extent of wings, 20.50 ; wing, 6. .50 ; tail, 3.50. 



The Killrtee, or KiWeer Plover, has a with; distribution throughout the continent, 

 and breeds, wherever it is found, fiom Central America, Mexico, and Southwestern 

 Texas, to the plains of the Saskatchewan. It is more abundant in some parts of the 



