SEMIPALMATED PLOVER 89 
twenty inches. As a rule the Kildeer is not 
very wary. 
This species is a dweller in North America 
from the Saskatchewan country southward. It 
is found in the winter months in the West In- 
dies, Central America and northern South 
America. It breeds anywhere throughout this 
wide range of territory, usually laying from 
two to four eggs, dull drab or cream color, with 
brownish blotches upon them. 
SEMIPALMATED PLOVER. 
(gialitis semipalmata.) 
Common on almost every sandbar and mud- 
bank along our coast are the ‘‘ringnecks,’’ 
filling the air with their soft and pleasant pip- 
ing. Their notes, at times wild and mournful, 
are always in accord with the swash of the 
sea. Inhabiting the same ground and often as- 
sociating with the smaller sandpipers, where 
not much molested they show the same trustful 
and confiding disposition as these little neigh- 
bors, but where the ‘‘summer boarder’’ harries 
them daily they soon become as wild and wary. 
as any of the shorebirds. 
