BIKDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMEBTCA. 



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American Ornithologists' Union, Check List, 3rd ed., 1910, 128. — Bowles, 

 Auk, xxviii, 1911, 172 (Puget Sound, winter resident). — Wood (N. A.), 

 Fourteenth Rep. Mich. Acad. Sci., 1912. 183 (Charity Island, ilichigan, 

 breeding). — Bertoni, Fauna Parag., 1914, 39. 



[Oocyrchus]vocifmtsBoNAPM{TE, Compt. Rend., xliii, 1856, 417. — Sharpe, Hand- 

 list, i, 1899, 154, part. — Forbes and Robinson, Bull. Liverp. Mus., ii, no. 2, 

 1899, 66, part (Nova Scotia; Jasper House; Bolanos, Jalisco; Coban, 

 Guatemala). 



Oxyechus vocifcrus vociferus Thayer and Bangs, Condor, ix, 1907, 136 (Rosario, 

 Lower California, Nov.). — Horsbrugh, Ibis, 1916, 681 (Buffalo Lake, 

 Alberta). 



Charadnus (Aegialites) vocifer Gloger, Journ. fiir Orn., 1855, 108. 



[Oxycchtis] vocifer Heine and Reichenow, Nom. Mus. Hein. Orn., 1890, 335 

 (Mexico) . 



OXYECHUS VOCIFERUS RUBIDUS Riley. 



WEST INDIAN KILLDEER. 



Similar to 0. v. vociferus but smaller and coloration darker. 



Adult male.— Wing, 135-165 (148.7); tail, 80-100 (88.5); culmen, 

 19-22 (20.2); tarsus, 31-36.5 (34); middle toe, 19-22.5 (21.1).« 



Adult female.—W'mg, 139-163 (150.3); tail, 83-106 (89.8); culmen, 

 20-21 (20.4); tarsus, 32-36 (34.2) ; midcUc toe, 20-22 (20.7).^ 



Greater Antilles: Cuba (San Diego de los Bailos; San Cristobal; 

 Guam&; Guanajay; Santiago; Pinar del Rio), Isle of Pines (Nueva 

 Gerona)-, Haiti (La Vega, Puerta Plata, and Almercen, Santo Do- 

 mingo), Jamaica (near Spanishtown), and Porto Rico (Manate; 

 Mameyes; Comdrio; Caguas; Vieques Island), 



[Charadnus] torqvatus (not of Pontoppidan, 1763) Linn.^ius, Syst. Nat., ed. 12, 1, 

 1766, 255 (Santo Domingo; based on Pluvialis doviinicensis torqiiatus Brisson, 

 Orn., V, 1760, 70, pi. 6, fig. 2).— Gmelin, Syst. Nat., i, pt. ii, 1789, 685. 



Oxyechus vocifcrus torquatus Bangs and Zappey, Am. Nat., xxxix, April, 1905, 

 195 (Isle of Pines, Cuba; crit.). 



{f) [Charadrius]jamaicensisMv-Li.'ER, Natursyst., Anhang, 1776, 117 (Jamaica; based 

 on Browne, Jamaica, p. 477). — Gmelin, Syst. Nat., i, pt. ii, 1789, 685. — 

 Latham, Index Orn., ii, 1790, 743.— Turton, Syst. Nat., i, 1806, 413. 



