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CHAPTER I 



Charadriiformes, Charadrii 



/• typ- 



(European Turnstone) 

 Greenl., Icel., Eur.-Kamch. 



ARENARIA INTERPRES L. 



sbsp. morinella L.^ 

 (Ruddy Turnstone) 

 W Alas. Arct. N. Amer.: Mackenzie-Baffins L. 



sbsp. faeroensis Brehm 

 (Faeroe Snipe) 



Icel., Faeroes. 



/• typ. 

 Brit. Isl., Scand. -Bering 

 Str. 



/• typ. 

 (Ringed Plover) 

 WEur. 



CAPELLA GALLINAGO L. 



/• typ. 

 (European or Common 

 Snipe) 

 Scand.-Kamch.-Japan. 



sbsp. delicata Ord 

 (American or Wilson's 

 Snipe) 

 Alas.-Nfld. 



CHARADRIUS ALEXANDRINUS L. 



(Snowy or Kentish Plover) 



sbsp. nivosus Cass. sbsp. tenuirostris Lawr. 



Wash.-Lower Calif. C & SE U.S.A., West Ind. 



Many sbspp. farther south. 



CHARADRIUS HIATICULA L. 



sbsp. tundrae Lowe sbsp. semipalmatus Bonap.^ 



(Semipalmated Plover) 

 Spitzb., N Scand.-Chuk- Bering Str.-Baff. L.-Nov. 

 chi Renins. Scot, 



sbsp. psammodroma Salom.^ 

 Baffins L., Greenl., Icel., Faeroes. 



sbsp. arctica Schiol. sbsp. schinzii 

 Brehm 



EROLIA (PELIDNA, CALIDRIS) ALPINA L. 



/. typ. 



N Greenl. 



(Southern Dunlin) 

 E Greenl., Icel., 

 Faeroes, W Eur. 



(Northern Dunlin) 

 Scand.-Sib.: Yalmal; 

 Spitzb., N. Zeml. 



sbsp. centralis But. 



Yenisei-Yana. 



sbsp. pacifica Coues 



(Red-backed Sandpiper) 



NE Asia; Alas.-Hudson Bay. 



EROLIA (arquatella, calidris) maritima Brunn.* 

 (Purple Sandpiper) 

 Icel., Faeroes, arct. Eur. isl., Scand.- Arct. isl. of N. Amer.: Melville Isl.- 

 Taimyr. Ellesm. Isl., Greenl. 



^ "A very unsatisfactory' race" (Peters, 1934, p. 271). 

 2 Often regarded as distinct species. 

 ' Very doubtfully distinguished from forma typica. 



* E. ptilocnemis Coues, with its races, from NE Sib. and Alaska, is sometimes regarded 

 as a sbsp. of maritima. 



