66 CONNECTICUT GEOL. AND NAT. HIST. SURVEY. [Bull. 



B. B.) ; July 28, 1894, Bloomfield, adult and young (W. E. T., 

 in coll. of L. B. B.) ; Aug. 18, 1894, East Haven, three shot, 

 Aug. 21, one shot (recorded by H. W. F.) ; July 9, 1896, East 

 Hartford, adult and young (W. E. T., in coll. of L. B. B.) ; May, 

 1901, Newtown (Hamlin) ; March 6, 1902, Stony Creek (in coll. 

 of L. B. B.) ; July 17-18, 1905, Mt. Tom (H. Sanford) ; Oct. 8, 

 1906, one, Oct. II, three, Oct. 13, one shot, West Haven (A. 

 Ganung, in coll. of L. B. B.) ; Nov. 6, igo8, Middletown (in coll. 

 of J. H. S.) ; March 18, 1911, Milford, male (H. W. B.) ; Oct. 

 27, 191 1, West Haven (H. K. J.). 



Breeding records. According to Merriam,^ W. W. C. in- 

 formed him (1877) that it bred on Plum Island and in the 

 vicinity of Portland; Guilford, two eggs collected many years 

 ago (E. C. M. Hall, in Peabody Museum) ; " about twenty years 

 ago," a set of eggs taken in Winchester by Williams (H. K. J.) f 

 May 14, 1898, Darien, four eggs taken (Howes) ;' July, 1901, 

 Bridgewater, nest with four eggs found (recorded by G. L. Ham- 

 lin) ; 1906, Danbury, a pair watched nesting and rearing their 

 young (G. L. Hamlin). Formerly nested in Bloomfield in con- 

 siderable numbers. 



An unusual flight of Killdeer took place along the New Eng- 

 land coast the latter part of November, 1888. Only two speci- 

 mens, however, were reported from Connecticut.* 



.ffigialitis semipalmata (Bonaparte). Semipalmated Plover. 



A common spring and fall migrant along the coast in May, 

 August, and September; rare inland. 



Spring migration. Earliest record. New Haven, May 11, 

 1897; East Haven, May I, 1880 (Woolsey). Latest record. New 

 Haven, June i, 1894. 



Fall migration. Earliest record. New Haven, July 30, 1896. 

 Latest record. New Haven, Oct. 31, 1902. 



Inland records. June 4, 1875, Portland, female taken by C. 

 H. N. (in coll. of J. H. S.) ; Sept. 17, 1891, East Hartford, one 

 shot (W. E. T.) ; May 22, 1894, Portland, specimen shot by C. 

 H. N.; June 3, 1905, Litchfield (E. S. W.). 



iMerriam, Birds of Conn., p. 102. 

 'Job, The Sport of Bird Study, p. 296. 

 ^Oologist, xxviii, 1911, p. 151. 

 ^Chadbourne, Auk, vi. 3, pp. 255-263. 



