. An illustrated manual of British birds . ,accompanying each stroke of by a sharp whistle, thendropping suddenly and cowering with expanded wings and food is similar to that of the Ringed Plover. The adult male in spring has the forehead and a broad line aboveeach eye white \ lores and a stripe behind the eye black ; fore-crown black ; top of the head and nape reddish-brown; neck—allround—and the entire under parts, white; on each side of theneck a black patch which is not continued to the breast; upper parts—including the three central pairs of tail-feathers—hair-brown with
. An illustrated manual of British birds . ,accompanying each stroke of by a sharp whistle, thendropping suddenly and cowering with expanded wings and food is similar to that of the Ringed Plover. The adult male in spring has the forehead and a broad line aboveeach eye white \ lores and a stripe behind the eye black ; fore-crown black ; top of the head and nape reddish-brown; neck—allround—and the entire under parts, white; on each side of theneck a black patch which is not continued to the breast; upper parts—including the three central pairs of tail-feathers—hair-brown withdarker shafts ; outer tail-feathers white ; bill, legs and feet nearly 7 in. ; wing 4*25 in. The female has no black onthe fore-crown, her neck-patches are brown instead of black, andher colours are less bright. The young resemble the female, whilethe downy nestlings are more rufous than those of the RingedPlover. The illustration represents an adult male in summer, and ayoung bird in autumn plumage. CHARADRIID/F, 529. THE KILLDEER PLOVER. A^(;iALiTis vociFERA (LinriKus). In 1862 a mounted example of this American bird was identifiedby Mr. P. L. Sclater, who was informed by Mr. J. R. Wise that ithad been killed in April 1857 near Christchurch in Hampshire; butas corroborative evidence of this was wanting and the specimen hadchanged hands during the interval, I did not consider it advisable toinclude the species in the 4th Edition of Yarrell, while later inves-tigation has led me to doubt the accuracy of the assertion. Subse-quently, as stated in the preface to the above work, Mr. Jenkinsonshot a bird, which I afterwards examined, on January 15th 1885. atTresco in the Scilly Islands (Zool. 1885, p. 113). The Killdeer Plover has not yet been recognized on the mainlandof Europe, though, according to Mr. J- V. Johnson, it has beenobtained on the island of Madeira. In America it is widely dis-tributed, breeding southward from the plains of the Saskatchewan(where
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