160 PR.ECOCIAL GRALLATORES — LIMICOL^. 



^■Egialiics minor, Hauting, P. Z. iS. 1871, 117 ^Alaska 0- 



Charadrius inlennedius, Mj^netr. Catal. 53. 



t. Charadmis zonatus, Swains. B. AV. Afr. II. 235, pi. 25. 



JEgialitis microrhynchus, Ridgw. Am. Nat. VIII. Feb. 1874, 109 (winter plumage ; "San Francisco, 



Cal."). 

 The Little Ringed Plover, Yakk. Brit. 1>. cd. 2, II. p. 473, tig. ed. 3, II. p. 502, tig. 



Hab. The Pala\irctic Region in general ; Western Africa ; accidental on coast of California (?) 

 and in Alaska (0- Cf Hartixg, P. Z. S. IS7I, p. 117. 



Sp. Char. Jdidt 9 : Lores, auriculars, and beneath the eye, dusky brown, or dull blackish, 

 this color crossing the anterior part of the forehead at the base of the bill ; a broad band of black 

 (about .40 of an inch wide) crossing the anterior part of the crown, from eye to eye, and separated 

 from the black frontlet T)y a band of white about .15 of an inch wide ; behind tliis black vertical 

 band a narrow one of ashy white, conthiued back above the eyes and auriculars to the occiput ; 

 chin, throat, malar region, and cheeks, })ure white, continent with a Ijroad and very distinctly 

 defined white nuchal collar ; a black collar completely encircling the neck, immediately below the 

 white of the throat and nape ; remaining under parts, including under surface of the wing, entirely 

 pure white. U[)per parts, including the occiput and posterior part of the crown, br(jwnish gray, 

 lighter on the rump and central upper tail-coverts ; sides of the rump and lateral u])per tail-coverts, 

 shaft of the outer primary, terminal margins of the secondaries, outer webs of two outer tail- 

 feathers, with ends of all except the middle pair, white ; inner web of outer tail-feather white, 

 with a dusky sub-terminal spot. Bill small and slender, entirely black, except at tlie base of the 

 mandible ; iris dark brown ; legs and feet pale-colored, the latter with a small web connecting 

 the outer and middle toes at the base, the inner and middle toes entirely separated. Wing, 4.50 ; 

 culmen, .50 ; tarsus, 1.00 ; middle toe, .55 (No. 56876, Europe ; Schliitter Coll.). 



Young {tuid ivinter adult ?) : SimiLir to the same stage of ^E. semijKilmata, but cheeks white 

 up to the eye, white of the forehead much less distinctly defined, and grading insensibly into the 

 gray of the crown ; two outer tail-feathers white, the inner webs with a dusky transverse spot near 

 the end. Form much more slender than ^E. semipalmata, the bill especially, A\liich is also of 

 entirely difl'erent form. Wing, 4.35 ; tail, 2.50 ; culmen, .50 ; greatest depth of bill, .10 ; tarsus, 

 1. 00 ; middle toe, .65. (Type of ^. " microrhynchun, Ridgway," No. 39523, U. S. Nat. Mus. ; 

 " San Francisco, Cal. ; E. F. Lorquin.") 



^gialitis meloda. 



a. Yar. meloda. THE COMMON PIPING PLOVER. 



" CJiaradrius hiaticula, var.," Wilsox, Am. Oni. V. 1812, 30, ]>!. 37, f. 2. 



Charadrius mclodus, Oud. ed. Wils. VII. 1824, 71. — Boxaf. Am. Oni. IV. 1832, 74, pi. 24.— 



XuTT. Man. II. 1834, 18. — AuD. Orn. Biog. III. 1835, 154 ; V. 1839, 578, pi. 220 ; B. Am. 



V. 1842, 223, pi. 321. 

 j^gialitis meludus, BoxAi-. Conip. List, 1838, 45. — C'assin. in Baird's B. N. Am. 1858, 695. — 



Baird, Cat. N. Am. B. 1859, no. 508. — CouEs, Key, 1872, 244 ; Check List, 1873, no. 400 ; 



2d ed. 1882, no. 587. — Riugw. Nom. N. Am. B. 1881, no. 520. 

 Glmradrius Okcni, Wagl. Syst. A v. 1827. 



h. Var. circumcincta. THE RINGED PIPING PLOVER. 



^gialitis melodus, var. circuvicinct.us, Ridgw. Am. Nat. VIII. 1874, 109. 



^gialitis meloda, var. circumcincta, CouES, Check List, App. p. 133, no. 400«. ; Birds N. W. 1874, 



455. 

 JEgialitcs mclodus circumci lid us, HiVGW. Nom. N. Am. B. 1881, no. 520rt. — Cotes, Check List, 



2d ed. 1882, no. 588. 



Hab. The Eastern Province of North America, breeding in the northern portion of its range 

 (British Provinces and more Northern United States), and wintering southward. Bermudas ; Baha- 

 mas ; Cuba ; Jamaica. The var. circumcincta chieflv restricted to the Missouri River re'don. 



