CHARADRIIDA. 545 
THE KILLDEER PLOVER. 
AEGIALITIS VOCI{FERA (Linnzus). 
In 1862 a mounted example of this American bird was identified 
by Mr. P. L. Sclater, who was informed by Mr. J. R. Wise that it 
had been killed in April 1859 (in the ‘Ibis’ 1862, p. 276, the year 
was erroneously given as 1857) near Christchurch in Hampshire ; 
but as corroborative evidence of this was wanting and the specimen 
had changed hands during the interval, I did not consider it advis- 
able to include the species in the 4th Edition of ‘Yarrell.’ On 
January 15th 1885, as stated in the preface to the above work, Mr. 
Jenkinson shot a bird, which I afterwards examined, at Tresco in 
the Scilly Islands (Zool. 1885, p. 113). 
The Killdeer Plover has not yet been recognized on the mainland 
of Europe, though, according to Mr. J. Y. Johnson, it has been 
obtained on the island of Madeira. In America it is widely dis- 
tributed, breeding from the plains of the Saskatchewan (where it 
arrives about April 2oth) southward as far as Mexico ; its migrations 
extending to the Bermudas, the West Indies generally, and tropical 
America down to Colombia. In California and the southern portion 
of the United States it is resident or only partially migratory ; while 
even as far north as Long Island it has been met with up to the end 
of November and often makes its re-appearance quite early in the 
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