KILBOUKNE. 488 KILIAN. public lands. From 1813 until 1817 he repre- sented the Fifth District in the United States House of Representatives, and in 1823 and 1828 he was elected to the Lower House of the State Legislature. During his services in Congress he proposed granting lands in the Northwest to actual settlers, and was chairman of the com- mittee which drew up the bill embodying this Legislature. Among the local offices which he held were those of colonel of a frontier regiment, commissinner for iliami University, and trustee of Worthington College. KILCH. A small whitefish (Coreffoniis hie- miilis) (if the Lake of Cimstance. in Switzerland, which is a favorite article of food. It dwells at the bottom, where it is caught with nets. When brought to the surface of the water the belly is greatly distended by the expansion of the air in the swimming oladder, but the fishermen prick the bladder with a fine needle, the air escapes, and the fish continues to live comfortably at the surface. KILDABE, kil-dar' (Ir. Kill-dnrn, church of the oaks). An inhuid county cf tlic Prov- ince of Leinster. Ireland. Its area is 0.5fi square miles (ilap: Ireland, E 3). Its surface is al- most one unbroken plain. The proportion of pas- ture land exceeds that devoted to tillage, stock- raising being the chief industry. The principal towns are Naas. Athv. and Kildare. Population. in 1841, 11.5.190; in 11)01. 03.470. Consult: Murphy, "Kildare: Its History and Antiquities," in Joiirnnl of the Coiiiih/ itf hilibire A ichwologi- cal fiocictu (Dublin, 1893). KILDARE. A parish and market-town in Countv Kildare. Ireland, 2.5 miles southwest of Du'hiin (Map: Ireland, E 3). It owed its origin lo a nunnery, founded in the fifth century by Saint Bridget, the daughter of an Irish chief- tain, who received the veil from Saint Patrick. Xotwithstanding its present decayed condition, it is interesting for its antiquities, which comprise the restored thirteenth-century cathedral ; Fran- ciscan and Carmelite abbeys; a portion of the chapel of Saint Bridget, popularly called 'The Fire-bouse,' from a perpetual fire anciently main- tained there: and the round tower, 103 feet in height, which crowns the elevation on which the town is built. Ponuhition, 2000. KIL'DEER, or KILL'DEE. The most widely known of American plovers {.Eyialitis voci fe- rns). It is nine or ten inches long, and about twenty inches in extent of wing. It is grayish- brown above, with an olive shade, and occasion- ally a bronzy lustre, orange-brown or chestnut on the rump, and white beneath ; there are black markings on head and breast, and the tail is variegated with black, white, and rufus. The nest is made cm the ground, in grass or shingle, usually near Avater. The eggs, tisually four, vary in color, from creamy-white to drab, marked with blackish-brown, and are 1.5 inches long. (See Colored Plate of Eons of V.ter .xii Game Birds.) The kildeer is found throughout North America from Newfoundland and Manitoba south- ward, and even into Northern South America, in winter. In the northern part of its range it is migratory, but from Virginia southward it is resident. It is not numerous in New England, but becomes more common in the Central States, and is very abundant in the West. The name is based upon the very characteristic notes, which are generally uttered either while the bird is cm the wing or when it is running about in its ner- vous, restless way. It is incessantly in motion, and, though often seen about farmyards, it seems to distrust man, and his presence generally causes much vociferous objection. They are seldom found singly except during incubation, and are gener- ally seen in small Hocks of six or seven individ- uals. In the fall these usually are family groups. Although the kildeer when fat is edible, it is not usually ranked as 'game,' and is not much hunted. See Plovkk. and Plate of Plovebs. KILTBCAM, Alexander (17fi2-98). The found- er of the 'Now Coiuiection of Weslevan Metho- dists,' often called Kilhamites. He was born at Kpworth, Lincolnshire, July 10. 1702: was con- verted at the age of eighteen; began to preach among the Wesleyans in 1783, and wa-s the first to advocate the representation of the lay element in the government of the Church; in 1785 he was received by Wesle.v into the regular itinerant min- istry. After the death of Wesley there was much coiitrover.sy among his followers as to the duty ipf continuing their submission to the Established Church. Kilh.im was of the class urging a total separation from the Church of England. He was severely criticised for his assertion of popular rights in the Church and for the publication of a pamphlet on the I'rofjress of Libnty (1795), in which he urged a distribution of the powers of government between the clerical and lay elements. For severe remarks reganled as def.uiwitioii of the society, he was formally arraigned at the conference held in 179G. and expelled from the Connection by a unanimous vote. This resulted in the formation of the independent body called 'Xew Connection Melliodists.' He died at Not- tingham, December 20, 1798. Consult his Life by Townsend (London, 1890). KILIA, ke'lf-.vA. A fortified town in the fJov- ernii'.ent of Bessarabia. South Russia, situated on the left bank of the Kilia branch of the Dan- ube. 100 miles southwest of Odessa (Map: Rus- sia. Co). It is a thriving little town, with a (ustom-house. Population, in 1885, 8000; in 1897, 11,700. KILIAAN, ke'l^-iin, Cobnelis (1528-1607). A Dutch scholar, also called Van Kiel and 7vi7i- riniis. He was born at Duffel, was educated at Louvain. His Etiimolofiiciim Tculniticw Linyine (1574; revised under the title Kilianus Aiicliif:, 1042: edited by Van Hasselt, 1777) is his great work. KILIAN, Saint (c.644-697). A missionary and martyr of the seventh century. He was born in County Cavan, in the Province of Ulster, Ire- land, about 044, entered the monastic life in his native counti-y, and became a bishop. Having undertaken, in company with several of his fel- low-monks, a pilgiimage to Rome, he was seized ill his journey through the still pagan region of Franconia wiih a desire to devote himself to its conversion, and, being joined by his fellow- pilgrims, Coloman and Donatus, he obtained for the project at Rome, in 689, the sanction of the Pope Conon. On his return he succeeded in con- verting the Duke Gosbert. with many of his subjects, and in opening the way for the complete conversion of Franconia : but having provoked the enmity of Geilana. who. although the widow nf Gosbert's brother, had been married to flosbert, by declaring the marriage invalid and inducing
