^GIALITIS VOCIFERA. 



(KILLDEER PLOVER.) 



Pluvialis virginiana torquata, Briss. Orn. v. p. 68 (1760). 



Pluvialis dominicensis torquata, id. torn. cit. p. 70 (1760). 



Pluvialis jamaicensis torquata, id. torn. cit. p. 75 (1760). 



Charadrius vociferus, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. p. 253 (1766). 



Charadrius torquatus, id. torn. cit. p. 255 (1766). 



Le Eildir, Buff. Hist. Nat. Ois. viii. p. 96 (1781). 



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



JEgialites vociferus (Linn.), Bonap. Comp. List, p. 45 (1838). 



Hiaticula vocifera (Linn.), Gray, List Spec. Brit Mus. p. 71 (1844). 



Oxyechus vociferus (Linn.), Reichenb. Grail, p. xviii, tab. clxxii. figs. 725, 726 (1852). 



Charadrius (Oxyechus) vociferus (Linn.), G. R. Gray, Cat. of Brit. Birds, p. 142 (1863). 



Tildeo, Mexican ; Pijije in Costa Rica. 



Figurce notabiles. 

 D'Aubenton, PI. Enl. 286; Wils. Am. Orn. vii. pi. 59. fig. 6; Audub. B. Amer. pi. ccxv.; 

 id. 8vo ed. v. pi. 317; Lilford, B. of Brit. Isl. part xxv. 



Ad. fronte et stria superciliari albis : pileo antico cum lateribus nigris, medio et nucha fuscis : collo 

 albo, et in parte inferiore nigro, circumcincto : dorso umbrino-fusco : uropygio et supracaudalibus 

 aurantiaco-rufescentibus : remigibus nigro-fuscis, in pogonio interno albo marginatis : secundariis 

 nonnullis in pogonio externo albo notatis : tectricibus alarum majoribus nigro-fuscis albo terminatis, 

 reliquis dorso concoloribus : rectricibus extimis albis nigro transfasciatis et vix rufescente notatis, 

 sequentibus ad basin rufescenti-aurantiacis, versus apicem nigris et albo terminatis, medianis fuscis 

 et griseo-fusco apicatis : stria nigra a rostro per oculum ducta, gula et corpore subtus albis : 

 pectore fasciis duabus nigris transversim notato : rostro nigricante : pedibus sordide viridibus : 

 iride fusca. 



Adult Male (New Jersey, May) . Forehead and a stripe above and behind the eye white ; fore part of the 

 crown black ; crown and nape warm brown ; lower neck encircled by a white band, below which is a 

 broad black band ; upper parts generally warm brown ; upper tail-coverts rufous ; quills blackish 

 brown, on the basal portion of the inner web broadly margined with white, and some of the secondaries 

 with a white patch on the outer web ; larger wing-coverts blackish brown, broadly tipped with white ; 

 rest of the wing-coverts like the back; outer tail-feathers white, broadly barred with black and slightly 

 tinged with rufous, the next rufescent orange at the base, then black, broadly tipped with white ; 

 middle rectrices greyish brown and not white at the tip ; below the white band which passes through 

 the eye a black band passes from the base of the bill ; rest of the underparts white, except the black 

 band encircling the lower part of the throat, and a second black band which crosses the breast : bill 



