ORDER LIMICOL^:. 163 



277 a. JEgialitis meloda circumcincta RIDGW. 



Belted Piping Plover. 



jEgialitis melodus var. circumcinctus RIDGW. Am. Nat. VIII. 1874, 

 109. 



[B , C 400 a, R 520 #, C 588.] 

 HAB. Missouri River region ; occasional eastward to Atlantic coast. 



278. JEgialitis nivosa CASS. 



Snowy Plover. 



sEgialitis nivosa. CASS. in BAIRD, B. N. Am. 1858, 696. 



[B 509, C 401, R 521, C 591.] 



HAB. Western Province of North America ; in winter, both coasts 

 of Central America, and Western South America to Chili. 



[279.] .ffigialitis mongola (PALL.). 



Mongolian Plover. 



Charadrius moiigolus PALL. Reise Russ. Reich. III. 1776, 700. 

 jEgialiies moiigolus SWINH. P. Z. S. 1870, 140. 



[B , C , R C .] 



HAB. Northern Asia, southward to Northeastern Africa, India, 

 Malay Archipelago, and Australia. Choris Peninsula, Alaska ; acci- 

 dental. 



SUBGENUS OCHTHODROMUS REICHENBACH. 



Ochthodromus REICH. Syst. Av. 1852, p. xviii. Type, Charadrius 

 wilsonius ORD. 



280. JEgialitis wilsonia (ORD). 



Wilson's Plover. 



Charadrhts wilsonia ORD, WILS. Orn. IX. 1814, 77, pi. 73, fig. 5. 

 jEgialites wilsonius BONAP. Geog. & Comp. List, 1838, 45. 



[B 506, C 398, R 522, C 585.] 



HAB. Coasts of North and South America, from Long Island and 

 Lower California southward to Brazil and Peru, including the West 

 Indies. Casual north to Nova Scotia. 



