TYPE SPECIMENS OF BIRDS 83 



Genus CHARADRIUS Linnaeus 



i^gialitis melodus, var. circumcinctus Ridgway 

 Amer. Naturalist 8: 109, February 1874. 

 ==Charadrius melodus circumcinctus (Ridgway). See Oberholser, Bird 



life of Louisiana, Louisiana Dept. Cons. Bull., p. 216, 1938. 

 9035. Adult male. "Loup Fork, Platte Valley," Nebraska== tbe con- 

 fluence of the Loup River with the Platte, where Platte, Polk, and Butler 

 Counties meet. July 8, 18 — (entered into the museum register on 

 February 16, 1858). Collected by Ferdinand V. Hayden. Explora- 

 tion of the Upper Missouri and Yellowstone. 

 The party spent more than one month in the general locality, and some 

 specimens were labeled "on Loup Fork near Platte"; the type, however, 

 was taken on the day of their arrival, and therefore came either from the 

 Platte itself or from the very mouth of the Loup. 

 /^gialitis microrhynchus Ridgway 



Amer. Naturalist 8: 109, February 1874. 

 =Charadrius dubius curonicus Gmelin. See Grinnell, Univ. California 



Publ. Zool. 38: 318, 1932. 

 39523. Adult (sex not indicated) in nonbreedmg plumage. "San Fran- 

 cisco, Cal." Entered into the museum register on November 8, 1865. 

 Collected by "E. F. Lorquin." Original number 54. 

 This was one of a large collection of birds from California, all bearing 

 identical data. Since the form is otherwise unknown from the New World, 

 Grinnell [op. cit.) doubts the authenticity of the type locality, pointing out 

 that Lorquin was a dealer who may easily have obtained the specimen from 

 an Old- World source. 

 Charadrius alexandrinus nilionensis Deignan 



Joum. Washington Acad. Sci. 31: 106, March 17, 1941. 

 95938. Adult male. Aomori, Aomori Prefecture, Honshu Island, Japan. 

 April 23, 1876. Collected by Thomas W. Blakiston. Original num- 

 ber 1948. 

 i^gialilJs albidipectes [sic] Ridgway 



Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. 5: 526, April 3, 1883. 

 =Charadrius alexandrinus tenellus Hartlaub, fide J. P. Chapin (in epist. 



after examination of the type) . 

 26997. Adult (sex not indicated). "Chili, S. Am."=Madagascar. Re- 

 ceived from the National Institute. 

 Seebohm (Geographical distribution of the family Charadriidae, p. 162, 

 1887) placed Ridgway's name in synonymy with the South African Chara- 

 drius marginaius Vieillot, and was followed in this course by Ridgway him- 

 self (Birds of North and Middle America 8: 115 [footnote], 1919). The 

 bird apparently belongs, however, to the Malagasy race, as was surmised 

 long ago by Reichenow (Vogel Afrikas 1: 171, 1900). 



