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CHAEADEIUS. 



^^* Sulgeneric grovp Typical Hiaticula. 

 f iVew- World Species. 



CHARADRIUS VOCIFERUS 



KILLDEEB PLOVER. 



Diagnosis. Charadrius uropygio et supracaudalitus rufis. 



Variations. This species is not known to vary throughout its wide range. 



Synonymy. 



Literature. 



Charadrius vociferus, Linneus, Syst. Nat. i. p. 150 (1758) ; Linn. Sj/st. Nat. i. p. 253 (1766). 



Pluvialis virginiana torquata, -v 



Pluvialis dominicensis torquataj y-Brisson, Orn. v. pp. 68^ 70, 75 (1760). 



Pluvialis jamaicensis torquata, J 



Charadrius torquatus, Linneus, Syst. Nat. i. p. 255 (1766). 



Charadrius jamaicensis J Gmelin, Syst. Nat. i. p. 685 (1788). 



iEgialites vociferus {Linn.), Bonap. Comp. List B. Eur. &; N. Amer. p. 45 (1838). 



Hiaticula vocifera {Linn.), Gray, List Birds Brit. Mus. iii. p. 71 (184-4). 



Oxyechus vociferus (Linn.), Bonap. Compt. Rend, xliii. p. 417 (1856). 



Plates. — Wilson, Am. Orn. pi. 59. fig. 6 ; Audubon, Birds Am. v. pi. 317. 

 Habits. — Baird, Brewer, & Ridgway, Water-Birds N. Amer. i. p. 148. 

 Eggs.— Seehohm, British Birds, pi. 26. fig. 4. 



