1889. ] CHADBOURNE on a Flight of Killdeer Plover. 255 
he says, not far from Monterey, and he describes it as not differ- 
ing much from D. 2. gatrdnertz except by its smaller size.* 
The species is by no means abundant in southern California, 
and I have seen no specimens from south of San Bernardino 
County. A series of ten from various points in the southern 
half of the State gives the following average measurements : 
wing, go.g; tail, 57.6; culmen, 16.9; bill from nostril, 13.2; 
tarsus, 15.1; middle toe and claw, 17.5; hind toe, 12.2; claw of 
hind toe, 7.2 mm. 
AN UNUSUAL FLIGHT OF KILLDEER PLOVER 
(EGIALITIS VOCIFERA) ALONG 
THE NEW ENGLAND COAST. 
BY DR. ARTHUR P. CHADBOURNE. 
A very unusual flight of Killdeer Plover occurred along the 
New England coast in the latter part of November, 1888, and [| 
have succeeded in collecting some data that may help to show 
from whence the birds came, and why they were found in certain 
places while only a short distance away they were absent or 
found in small numbers. 
My data would have been far from satisfactory had it not been 
for the kindness of Dr. C. Hart Merriam, Chief of the Division of 
Economic Ornithology of the U. S. Department of Agriculture, 
who sent circulars to all the light-house keepers on the Atlan- 
tic coast, asking about the occurrence of Killdeer Plover in 
the fall of 1888, and to these reports I am largely indebted for 
what I have been able to find out about the flight in question. 
Where there seems to have been any doubt of the identity of the 
birds noted, the report has been excluded from the following list, 
and this has necessarily left out some places where the birds ap- 
peared in small numbers. 
* ‘Le ~. Gairdneri d’Audubon a exactement, d’aprés ce dernier auteur, les dimen 
sions du pubescens, qui est plus grand que mon espéce nouvelle." —MALHERBE, /o- 
nographie des Picidees etc., Vol. I, p. 126. 
