KILLDEER  , a See also:

• COMMON

common See also:

• AMERICAN

American See also:

• PLOVER

plover, so called in See also:

• IMITATION (Lat. imitatio, from intitari, to imitate)

imitation of its whistling cry, the Charadrius vociferus of See also:

• LINNAEUS

Linnaeus, and the Aegialitis vocifera of See also:

• MODERN

modern ornithologists . About the See also:

• SIZE

size of a See also:

• SNIPE (0. Eng. Spite, Icel. Snipe, Dutch Snip, Ger. Schnepfe)

snipe, it is mostly sooty-See also:

• BROWN
• BROWN, CHARLES BROCKDEN (1771-181o)
• BROWN, FORD MADOX (1821-1893)
• BROWN, FRANCIS (1849- )
• BROWN, GEORGE (1818-188o)
• BROWN, HENRY KIRKE (1814-1886)
• BROWN, JACOB (1775–1828)
• BROWN, JOHN (1715–1766)
• BROWN, JOHN (1722-1787)
• BROWN, JOHN (1735–1788)
• BROWN, JOHN (1784–1858)
• BROWN, JOHN (1800-1859)
• BROWN, JOHN (1810—1882)
• BROWN, JOHN GEORGE (1831— )
• BROWN, ROBERT (1773-1858)
• BROWN, SAMUEL MORISON (1817—1856)
• BROWN, SIR GEORGE (1790-1865)
• BROWN, SIR JOHN (1816-1896)
• BROWN, SIR WILLIAM, BART
• BROWN, THOMAS (1663-1704)
• BROWN, THOMAS (1778-1820)
• BROWN, THOMAS EDWARD (1830-1897)
• BROWN, WILLIAM LAURENCE (1755–1830)

brown above, but showing a See also:

• BRIGHT, JOHN (1811-188g)
• BRIGHT, SIR CHARLES TILSTON

bright See also:

• BUFF (from Fr. bu.ffie, a buffalo)

buff on the tail coverts, and in See also:

• FLIGHT

flight a See also:

• WHITE
• WHITE, ANDREW DICKSON (1832– )
• WHITE, GILBERT (1720–1793)
• WHITE, HENRY KIRKE (1785-1806)
• WHITE, HUGH LAWSON (1773-1840)
• WHITE, JOSEPH BLANCO (1775-1841)
• WHITE, RICHARD GRANT (1822-1885)
• WHITE, ROBERT (1645-1704)
• WHITE, SIR GEORGE STUART (1835– )
• WHITE, SIR THOMAS (1492-1567)
• WHITE, SIR WILLIAM ARTHUR (1824--1891)
• WHITE, SIR WILLIAM HENRY (1845– )
• WHITE, THOMAS (1628-1698)
• WHITE, THOMAS (c. 1550-1624)

white See also:

• BAR
• BAR (0. Fr. barre, Late Lat. barra, origin unknown)
• BAR, CONFEDERATION OF
• BAR, FRANCOIS DE (1538-1606)
• BAR, THE

bar on thewings; beneath it is pure white except two See also:

• PECTORAL

pectoral bands of deep See also:

• BLACK
• BLACK, ADAM (1784-1874)
• BLACK, JEREMIAH SULLIVAN (1810–1883)
• BLACK, WILLIAM (1841-1898)

black . It is one of the finest as well as the largest of the See also:

• GROUP

group commonly known as ringed plovers or See also:

• RING (O.E. hring; a word common to Teutonic languages; and probably cognate with the Lat. circus, Gr. KtpKOS or KpLKOS, Skt'. chakra, wheel, circle, cf. also " harangue "); in art, a band of circular shape of varying sizes, made of any material and used f

ring dotterels,' forming the genus Aegialitis of See also:

• BOIE, HEINRICH CHRISTIAN (1744-1806)

Boie . Mostly wintering in the See also:

• SOUTH
• SOUTH, ROBERT (1634–1716)

south or only on the See also:

• SEA (in O. Eng. sae, a common Teutonic word; cf. Ger. See, Dutch Zee, &c.; the ultimate source is uncertain)
• SEA, COMMAND OF THE

sea-See also:

• SHORE

shore of the more See also:

• NORTHERN

northern states, in See also:

• SPRING (from " to spring," " to leap or jump up," " burst out," O. Eng., springau, a common Teut. word, cf. Ger. springer, possibly allied to Gr. QnrFpxecOac, to move rapidly)

spring it spreads widely over the interior, breeding on the newly ploughed lands or on open grass-See also:

• FIELDS, JAMES THOMAS (1817-1881)

fields . The See also:

• NEST

nest is made in a slight hollow, and is often surrounded with small pebbles and fragments of shells . Here the See also:

• HEN

hen See also:

• LAYS

lays her See also:

• PEAR (Pyrus communis)

pear-shaped, See also:

• STONE
• STONE (0. Eng. shin; the word is common to Teutonic languages, cf. Ger. Stein, Du. steen, Dan. and Swed. sten; the root is also seen in Gr. aria, pebble)
• STONE, CHARLES POMEROY (1824-1887)
• STONE, EDWARD JAMES (1831-1897)
• STONE, FRANK (1800-1859)
• STONE, GEORGE (1708—1764)
• STONE, LUCY [BLACKWELL] (1818-1893)
• STONE, MARCUS (184o— )
• STONE, NICHOLAS (1586-1647)

stone-coloured eggs, four in number, and always arranged with their pointed ends touching each other, as is the See also:

• CUSTOM (from O. Fr. costume, costume or coustume; Low Lat. costuma, a shortened form of consuetudo)

custom of most Limicoline birds . The parents exhibit the greatest anxiety for their offspring on the approach of an intruder . It is the best-known See also:

• BIRD

bird of its See also:

• FAMILY

family in the See also:

• UNITED

United States, where it is less abundant in the See also:

• NORTH
• NORTH, BARONS
• NORTH, MARIANNE (1830—1890)
• NORTH, ROGER (1653-1734)
• NORTH, SIR THOMAS (1535?-16o1?)

north-See also:

• EAST
• EAST, ALFRED (1849- )

east than farther south or See also:

• WEST
• WEST, BENJAMIN (1738-1820)
• WEST, NICHOLAS (1461-1533)

west . In See also:

• CANADA

Canada it does not range farther northward than 56° N.; it is not known in See also:

• GREENLAND (Danish, &c., Gronland)

Greenland, and hardly in Labrador, though it is a passenger in See also:

• NEWFOUNDLAND

Newfoundland every spring and autumn.2 In See also:

• WINTER, JOHN STRANGE
• WINTER, PETER (c. 1755-1825)

winter it finds its way to Bermuda and to some of the See also:

• ANTILLES

Antilles, but it is not recorded from any of the islands to the windward of See also:

• PORTO

Porto Rico . In the other direction, however, it travels down the See also:

• ISTHMUS (Gr.io0pbs, neck)

Isthmus of See also:

• PANAMA

Panama and the west See also:

• COAST (from Lat. costa, a rib, side)

coast of South See also:

• AMERICA

America to See also:

• PERU
• PERU (apparently from Biru, a small river on the west coast of Colombia, where Pizarro landed)

Peru . The killdeer has several other congeners in America, among which may be noticed Ae. semipalmata, curiously resembling the See also:

• ORDINARY (med. Lat. ordinarius, Fr. ordinaire)

ordinary ringed plover of the Old See also:

• WORLD

World, Ae. hiaticula, except that it has its toes-connected by a See also:

• WEB (a word common to Teutonic languages, cf. Du. webbe, Dan. vaev, Ger. Gewebe, all from the Teutonic wabh—to weave)

web at the See also:

• BASE

base; and Ae. nivosa, a bird inhabiting the western parts of both the American continents, which in the See also:

• OPINION (Lat. opinio, from opinari, to think)

opinion of some authors is only a See also:

• LOCAL

local See also:

• FORM (Lat. forma)

form of the widely spread Ae. alexandrina or cantiana, best known as Kentish plover, from its See also:

• DISCOVERY

discovery near See also:

• SANDWICH
• SANDWICH, EDWARD MONTAGU, or MOUNTAGU, 1ST EARL OF (1625–1672)
• SANDWICH, JOHN MONTAGU, 4TH EARL OF (1718–1792)

Sandwich towards the end of the 18th See also:

• CENTURY (from Lat. centuria, a division of a hundred men)

century, though it is far more abundant in many other parts of the Old World . The common ringed plover, Ae. hiaticula, has many of the habits of the killdeer, but is much less often found away from the sea-shore, though a few colonies may be found in dry warrens in certain parts of See also:

• ENGLAND
• ENGLAND, THE CHURCH OF

England many See also:

• MILES, NELSON APPLETON (1839— )

miles from the coast, and in See also:

• LAPLAND, or LAPPLAND

Lapland at a still greater distance .

In such localities it paves its nest with small stones (whence it is locally known as " Stone See also:

• HATCH
• HATCH, EDWIN (1835-1889)

hatch "), a See also:

• HABIT (through the French from Lat. habitus, from habere, to have, hold, or, in a reflective sense, to be in a certain condition; in many of the English senses the French use habitude, not habit)

habit almost unaccountable unless regarded as an inherited See also:

• INSTINCT

instinct from See also:

• SHINGLE

shingle-haunting ancestors . (A .