KILLDEER PLOVEE. 



jEGIALITIS VOCIFERA {Linn.). 



Charadrius vociferus, Linn. S. N. i. p. 253 (1766). 

 iEgialitis vocifera, Yarr. ed. 4^ iii. p. 266, Pref. p. ix. 



The specimen of this bird from which the accom- 

 panying Plate was taken was most obhgingly lent to 

 me (with other rare British birds) by its owner, Mr. 

 Dorrien Smith, of Tresco, Scilly, for the purposes of 

 this work. The occurrence of this specimen, killed by 

 Mr. Jenkinson in the island of Tresco in January 1885, 

 is recorded with a few details at p. 113 of the 

 * Zoologist ' for that year by Mr. Thomas Cornish. I 

 am positively assured by Mr. Edward Hart, of Christ - 

 church, Hants, that another bird of this species was 

 killed on the shore of Christchurch harbour in April 

 1857, and seen by him whilst in fresh condition. These 

 two are, as I believe, the only recorded instances of 

 the occurrence of this American bird in the United 

 Kingdom. 



As I have never crossed the Atlantic I can say 

 nothing of the Killdeer from personal observation, so 

 I quote the following details from Chamberlain's edition 

 of 'Nuttall's Manual' (1891):— "The well known, 



