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(f) Charadrius jamaicensis Vieillot, Kouv. Diet. d'Hist. Nat., xxvii, 1818, 136. 



[Charadnus vodferus] /3 Latham, Index Orn., ii, 1790, 743 (=C. torquatus 

 Linnaeus). 



Charadrius vodferus (not of Linnseiis) D'Orbigny, in La Sagra's Hist. Nat. Cuba, 

 Ois., 1840, 246.— Hartlaub, Naumaniiia, ii, 1852, 53 (Cuba; Haiti).— 

 Brewer, Proc. Bost. Soc. N. H., vii, 1860, 308 (Cuba).— Bryant, Proc, 

 Bost. Soc. N. H., xi, 1867, 97 (Santo Domingo). — Sundevall, Oefv. K. 

 Vet.-Akad. Forh., 1869, 602 (Porto Rico). 



jEgialites vodferus Gosse, Birds Jamaica, 1847, 330. — Salle, Proc. Zool. Soc. 

 Lond., 1857, 236 (Santo Domingo).— March, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 

 xvi, 1864, 66 (Jamaica). — Cory, Birds Haiti and San Dom., 1885, 141. 



^gialitis vodferus Albrecht, Journ. fiir Orn., 1862, 205 (Jamaica). 



Mgialitis vodfera Cory, Auk, iv, 1887, 228, part (West Indian references and 

 localities, except Bahamas); vii, 1900, 374 (Anegada), 375 (Virgin Gorda) ; 

 ix, 1902, 272 (San Diego de los Banos, Cuba); Birds West Ind., 1889, 228, part 

 (except Bahamas); Cat. West Ind. Birds, 1892, 95, part (except Bahamas).— 

 Scott, Auk, ix, 1892, 14 (Jamaica, resident, breeding). — Christy, Ibis, 

 1897, 337 (La Vega and Puerta Plata, Santo Domingo, July; habits). — Sclater, 

 Revised List Birds Jamaica, 1910, 21 (breeding). 



M\gialitis'\ vodfera Newton (A. and E.), Handb. Jamaica, 1881, 115. 



OxyecJms vodferus Gundlach, Journ. fiir Orn., 1856, 424 (Cuba); 1862, 88 (crit.), 

 1874, 313 (Porto Rico); 1875, 333 (Cuba; habits); 1878, 162, 189 (Porto Rico); 

 Repert. Fisico-Nat. Cuba, i, 1866, 359; Anal. Soc. Esp. Hist. Nat., vii, 1878, 

 382 (Porto Rico).— Stahl, Ornis, vol. 3, 1887, 452 (Porto Rico).— Sharpe, 

 Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xxiv, 1896, 242, 742, part (Jamaica; San Cristobal, 

 Cuba). 



[Oxyediu^] vodferus Gundlach, Journ. fiir Orn., 1861, 342 (Cuba). — Sharpe, 

 Hand-list, i, 1899, 154, part. — Forbes and Robinson, Bull. Liverp. Mus., 

 ii, no. 2, 1899, 66, part (Jamaica; Almercen, Santo Domingo). 



Oxychecus vodferus Wells, List Birds Grenada, 1886, 7. 



Charadrius {Mgialitis) vodferus Bryant, Proc. Bost. Soc. N. H., xi, 1867, 97 

 (Santo Domingo). 



Oxyechus vodferus rubidus Riley, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., xxii, April 17, 1909, 88 

 ("small resident West Indian Killdeer;" new name for Charadrius torquatus 

 Linn£eus, 1766, not Pontoppidan, 1763).— Wetmore, Bull. 326, U. S. Dept. 

 Agric, 1916, 39 (Porto Rico, resident; habits; food). 



Genus PODASOCYS Coues. 



Podasocysa Coues, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., Jan., 1866, 96. (Type, by original 

 designation, Charadrius montanus Townsend.) 



Medium-sized Charadriidse (wing 138-155 mm.) with culmen not 

 longer than middle toe with claw; tarsus twice as long as middle toe 

 without claw, more than one-fourth as long as wing; tail decidedly 

 less than half as long as wing, slightly rounded; and without any 

 black on under parts. 



Bill relatively small and slender, much shorter than head, its depth 

 at base equal to less than half the length of exposed culmen, the 

 latter equal to or slightly shorter than middle toe with claw; distal 

 portion (less than half) of culmen distinctly though slightly arched; 

 gonys as long as mandibular rami, nearly straight, ascending termi- 



« From TToSas okvs, swift-footed. (Coues.) 



