230 BIRDS OF BERMUDA. 



Rah.— All of temperate North America; West Indies; Central and 

 South America in winter ; accidental in Europe. (Coues.) 



The latest of the southward migrants, but regular in its visits. First 

 seen about the middle of November, in small flocks, which remain till 

 February, attaching themselv^es principally to the grassy bottoms and 

 moist places on the south side. Persons living on this side hear their 

 sweet wild note all night. A few remain till March or even later. 



95. ^gialitis semipalmatuSj (By>.) Cab. Semipalmated or Eing Plover. 



Tringa hiaticula, Wils. 



Charadrius hiaticula, Ord., Sab., Rich. 



Charadrlus {Jlgialitis) hiaticula var, semipalmatus, Ridg. 



Charadrius semipalmatus, Bp., Kaup., Wagl., Sw. & Rich., Nutt., Aud., Schl., 



Gray. 

 ^gialitis semipalmatus, Bp., Cab., Bd., Coop. & Suck., Coues, Dress., Dall &. 



Bann., Mayn., Allen. 

 ^gialeus semipalmatus, Reich., Allen. 



Length, about 7.00; wing, 4.75; tail, 2.25. 



Eah. — Continent of North America, breeding chiefly in higher lati- 

 tudes, wintering from our southern border to Brazil. (Coues.) 



Arrives in small numbers early in August, with the annual invading 

 army of Stints and Sandpipers, remaining till October, and frequenting 

 the sandy bays on the south shore, also the muddy edges of Peniston's 

 Pond. 



96. ^^gialitis melodus, (Ord.) Bp. Piping Plover. 



Charadrius hiaticula, Var., Wils. 



Chradrius melodus, Ord., Bp., Nutt., Aud., Schl., Gray, Fiusch. 



Charadrius {^gialitis) melodus, Ridg. 



Mgialitis melodus, Bp., Cab., Bd., Bryant, Scl., and late authors. 



JEgialeus melodus, Allen. 



Charadrius okeni, Wagl. 



Length, about 7.00; wing, 4^; tail, 2. 



Hab. — Eastern coast of North America, Cuba, Bahama, Jamaica. 

 (Coues.) 



Eare. Colonel Wedderburn shot one at Mangrove Bay in September, 

 1848, and two were seen on a rocky island in Hamilton Harbor in Sep- 

 tember, 1850. Mr. Bartram has one specimen. Not observed in 1874. 



Family H^MATOPODID^. 

 Genus Strepsilas, 111. 



97. Strepsilas interpres, (Linn.) 111. Turnstone. 



Tnngainierprea, Linn., Gm., Lath., Wils. 



Strepsilas interpres, 111., Leach, Steph., Bp., Sw, & Rich., Nutt., Eyt., Keys. 

 & Bias., Schl., And., and authors generally. 



