ORDER CHARADRIIFORMES. 103 



Range. — Breeds from the Arctic Circle south to central Europe and China, 

 Winters south to northern Africa and India. Casual in Greenland and rarely 

 straggling across the Atlantic Ocean; recorded from Baffin Island, Newfound- 

 land, Labrador, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Maine, New York (Long 

 Island), North Carolina, the Bahamas, and Barbados. 



Subfamily CHARADRIINAE. Plovers. 



Genus CHARADRIUS Linnaeus. 



Charadrius Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, I, 1758, 150. Type, by tauto- 

 nymy, Charadrius hiaticula Linnaeus. (Charadrios s. Hiaticula Aldro- 

 vandus cited in synonymy, cf. Op. 16, Internat. Comm. Zool. Nomencl.) 



Subgenus CHARADRIUS Linnaeus. 



Charadrius hiaticula hiaticula Linnaeus. Ringed Plover. [275.] 



Charadrius hiaticula Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, 1, 1758, 150. (Sweden.) 



Range. — Breeds in northern Europe, also in Greenland (both coasts), Ice- 

 land, eastern Baffin Island, and probably Ellesmere Island, migrating along 

 European coasts. [An allied race occurs in northern Siberia.] ^ 



• Charadrius dubius curonicus Gmelin. Little Ringed Plover. [276.] 



Charadrius curonicus Gmelin, Syst. Nat., I, Pt. ii, 1789, 692. (in Cu- 

 ronia = Courland, Latvia, on the Baltic Sea.) 



Range. — Breeds from northern Europe and northern Asia south to Japan, 

 northern Africa, and the Canaries. Winters in Africa, India, and the Malay 

 Archipelago. Accidental in Alaska (Kodiak Island) ^ and California (San 

 Francisco).' (?) [A closely allied race occurs in the Philippines, southern 

 China, and adjacent islands.] 



Charadrius mel6dus Ord. Piping Plover. [277.] 



Charadrius vielodus Ord, in reprint Wilson, Amer. Orn., VII, 1824, 71. 

 (Great Egg Harbor, New Jersey.) 

 Range. — Breeds locally from southern Alberta, southern Saskatchewan, 

 southern Manitoba, southern Ontario, southern Quebec, Magdalen Islands, 

 Prince Edward Island, and Nova Scotia south to central Nebraska, north- 

 eastern Illinois, northwestern Indiana, northern Ohio, northwestern Pennsyl- 

 vania, and coasts of New Jersey, Virginia, and North Carolina (Pea Island). 

 Winters on the Atlantic and Gulf coasts from South Carolina to Texas and 

 northern Mexico. Casual in the Bahamas, Greater Antilles, Bermuda, and 

 Newfoundland. 



^ The Greenland bird has been separated as C. h. sepientrionalis Brehm. 



2 Schalow, Journ. flir Orn., 1891, 259. 



3 Ridgway, Amer. Nat., VIII, 1874, 109. 



