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The first snow fell November 17 / I was on an island in Boston 
Harbor the next day, where I met with an unlooked-for bird. 
As I was crossing the island I was surprised to see a shore-bird 
running over the snow, beneath which lay a mud-flat, a former 
resort for such birds. I had no difficulty in shooting the stranger, 
which proved to be a Killdeer Plover {^Egialites vociferus) . 
The day was bitterly cold, and although these birds are known to 
linger here quite late at times, it is surprising that the delay in 
the present instance was not fatal. A week before this, — on the 
nth, — I secured a Short-eared Owl on this island, which started 
up from a potato field as I approached. 
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Bail. N.0.0, 8, July, 1888, p, 
Only one nest of the Killdeer have I 
ever found, although the birds are plen- 
tiful in August in ponds and water courses. 
The nest was among the rocks just above 
high water mark, and contained, May 30, 
four eggs, just on the point of hatching. 
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Birds of Bristol County, Mass. 
F.W. Andros. 
JEgialitis vocifera (Linn.), Killdeer. Migrant, 
not common. Formerly Bred. 
O.& O. XII. Sept. 1887 p.V39 
Limicolae in Bristol County. 
H.F. Dexter, Dartmouth, Mass. 
Killdeer Plover, Oxyechus vociferus. I cannot 
find this species as common at present; a few 
occur inland and have been secured at Reho- 
both (Carpenter) and Attleboro (Ried). Two 
instances of its breeding have occurred within 
the memory of the writer. Along the coast 
and the principal water courses of the interior, 
it is found in late summer and autumn in small 
numbers. 
O.&O. XII. Sept. 1887 p.147 
Shore Birds of Cape Cod. 
John C. Galloon. 
O.&O. XIII. Oot. 1888 p. 155 
, — V M vucijera, (Cinn.) A rar 
spring and autumn migrant. It is the first o 
the shore birds to arrive in the spring, some 
times reaching the Cape as early as March 1st 
in the autumn, migrants remain as late as th. 
ast of November. This bird was common or 
the Cape in former years and bred in some lo 
calities. They frequent ploughed fields anc 
pastures, marshes and the muddy edges ol 
ponds and rivers. Their shrill notes of “kill- 
deer,” are incessantly reiterated while on the 
wing or running along on the ground. 
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