208 Tur Winson BurreTiIn—Nos. 76-77. 
Greenwich, R. I., birds give the Killdeer Plover call several 
times; he describes the usual cry as “A-a-nee.” Prof. El- 
lison A. Smyth aptly terms it a whining whistle. The Rey. 
P. B. Peabody lately describes it as “ 7’-c-e’-e-e.” This note 
is often heard while the bird is on the wing, which gives 
the note, under this circumstance, a softened ringing timbre. 
The Florida bird utters a shrill “Chip-pec” with pronoune- 
ed accent on last syllable, according to R., W. Williams. 
It has also a subdued note that is so accurately reproduced 
by the Florida Blue Jay. that one is often mistaken for the other 
until the bird is seen. E. F. Pope of Colmesneil, Texas, says it 
has a habit of circling high overhead and uttering its rather 
plaintive note of “Zigee-c.’ John E. Thayer calls its cry 
Phoebe-like. Dr. Fisher tells us that one of its notes re- 
sembles quite closely that of the Wood Pewee. I have no- 
ticed the similarity, however, the first syllables are not alike 
and the whole lacks the penetration in the instance of the 
last named species. With the Broad-wing it is a subdued 
and plaintive “ Che-wee’” or Che-wee-e-e.’ When mating 
or locating for the season, it lazily skims through the air 
just above the tree tops, uttering a frequent metallic 
“ Chu-e-e,” which, unlike the former and more domestic 
note, is perhaps not wholly a whistle nor more than a sug- 
gestion of a scream. Once when a captive was harried by 
a band of Grackles, and again when a female was disturbed 
repeatedly at its nest containing small young, I heard it utter 
a peculiar harsh distressed cry ‘“ Ka-Ka-Ka-Ka”’ Owen 
Durfee once only, detected a difference in the notes of the 
sexes. May 21, 1904, at Lancastor, N. H., that of the fe- 
male presumably, being more rattcous, and that of the male 
more shrill. I have ncticed it in a pair found nesting May 
12, 1907, near Berwyn. The female flushed from the nest 
and perched in a nearby tree, the male soon appeared from an 
opposite direction and his “Che-zwee-e-e-c ” was answered in 
ten seconds by the female on the near side of the ravine: if 
she failed to reply in the allotted time, he waited ten seconds 
longer and whistled again, and she replied after about the 
