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Oregon. It is widely diffused, being given by Mr. Gould as a bird of 

 Australia. 



3. Genus HIATICULA, Mocliring, Av. Gen. p. 75 (1752). 

 1. HiATicuLA vociFERA [Limi.) . — The Killdeer. 



Charadrius vocifems et torquatus, LiNN. Syst. Nat. I, pp. 253, 255 (1766). 

 Charadrius jamaicensis, Gm. Syst. Nat. I, p. 685 (1788). 



Wilson, Am. Orn. VII, Plate LIX ; Aud. B. of Am. Plate CCXXV; 

 octavo ed. V, Plate CCCXVII. 



This strongly marked and well-known bird appears to inhabit the 

 whole of North America except the Arctic regions, and is at least a 

 winter visitor to the southern division also of this continent. Dr. 

 Pickering notices this bird as having been observed in Oregon and in 

 California, more abundantly in the latter country. One specimen in 

 the collection was obtained in the vicinity of Callao, Peru, which, 

 though apparently strictly identical with the northern species, Mr. 

 Peale states, " had the eyelids yellow when fresh, and not red like 

 the northern birds, a difference arising probably from age." We can 

 detect no material differences in specimens from North and South 

 America. 



Dr. Pickering mentions this bird as especially abundant on the 

 Sacramento River, California, in the month of September, and pre- 

 viously at Puget Sound, Oregon, in the month of June, 1841. 



2. HiATICDLA FALKLANDICA [Latham), 



Charadrius falMandicus, Lath. Ind. Orn. II, p. 747 (1790). 

 Charadrius annuligerus, Wagler, Syst. Av. (not paged, 1827). 

 Charadrius trifasciaius, LiCHT. Verz. p. 71 (1823) ? 



Portlock's Voyage, Plate at page 36; 



One specimen from Patagonia, which, though apparently in young 



