ORDER CHARADRIIFORMES. 107 



Pluvialis dominica dominica (Muller), American Golden Plover. [272.] 



Charadrius Dondnicus P. L. S. Muller, Natursyst. Suppl., 1776, 116. 

 Based on Le Pluvier dore de S. Domingue, Pluvialis Dominicensis 

 aurea Brisson, Orn. V, 48. (St. Domingo [West Indies].) 



Range. — Breeds from Point Barrow along the Arctic coast to Melville 

 Peninsula and probably western Baffin Island north to Melville and North 

 Devon islands and south to Ard Lake and Churchill, Manitoba. Winters on 

 the pampas of Brazil, Argentina, Paraguay, Bolivia, and Uruguay. Migrates 

 south, mainly over the Atlantic Ocean, from Nova Scotia and New England; a 

 few pass south through the Mississippi Valley, and all migrate north by this 

 route; regular migrant on the Pacific coast in autumn. Formerly abundant, 

 now much less common. Casual in Greenland and Bermuda, accidental in 

 Great Britain, Heligoland and Australia. 



Pluvialis dominica fulva (Gmelin). Pacific Golden Plover. [272a.] 



Charadrius fulvus Gmelin, Syst. Nat., I, Pt. ii, 1789, 687. Based on the 

 Fulvous Plover Latham, General Synops., Ill, Pt. 1, 211. (in Tahiti 

 maritimis et uliginosis = Tahiti.) 



Range. — Breeds in northern Siberia from Liakof Island to Bering Strait 

 and in Alaska along the coast of Bering Sea and Kotzebue Sound. Winters in 

 the Hawaiian Islands, China, Oceanica, New Zealand, and Australia. Occa- 

 sional in migration on the coast of British Columbia. 



Genus SQUATAROLA Cuvier. 



Squatarola Cuvier, Regne Animal, I, 1817 [Dec. 7, 1816], 467. Type, by 

 tautonymy, Tringa squatarola Linnaeus. 



Squatarola squatarola (Linnaeus). Black-bellied Plover. [270.] 



Tringa Squatarola Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, I, 1758, 149. (in 

 Europa = Sweden .) 



Range. — Nearly cosmopolitan. Breeds on the Arctic coast and islands from 

 Point Barrow to Southampton and western Baffin islands, also on the Arctic 

 coast of Russia and Siberia. Winters from the Mediterranean to South Africa; 

 also in India and Australia, and from southern British Columbia, California, 

 Louisiana, and North Carolina to Brazil, Peru, and northern Chile; in migration 

 occurs throughout the United States and in Greenland and Bermuda. Acci- 

 dental in Hawaii; casual aU summer on the coasts of Florida and western 

 Ecuador.^ 



1 This species has been divided by some authors into several races, the North 

 American race being known as S. s. cynosurae Thayer and Bangs and the 

 East Siberian form which reaches Alaska as S. s. hypomelas (Pallas), 



