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whole of the hand-wing white; forehead, maUir region, chin, throat, 

 nuchal collar, and under parts of body white, the latter deepening 

 into pinkish cinnamon on under tail-coverts and flanks; a black loral 

 streak, continued, more narrowly, beneath a cinnamon-whitish sub- 

 orbital spot; a band of black completely encircling lower neck. 



Adult male.— Wing, 154-167 (160.2); tail, 88-103 (95.6); cuhnen, 

 19-23 (20.3); tarsus, 33-36.5 (34.6); middle toe, 20-23 (21.7).« 



Adult female.— Wing, 147-170 (160.1); tail, 90-103 (94.9); culmen 

 19.5-22 (20.4); tarsus, 32-37 (35.2); middle toe, 20.5-22 (21.4).^' 



Temperate North America, breeding north to central Quebec 

 (Point de Monts), central Keewatin, southern Mackenzie, and central 

 British Columbia, south to Gulf Coast of United States, Bahamas 

 (New Providence; Little Abaco) ( ?) and central Mexico; winters from 

 Pacific coast of United States (north to Puget Sound), Ai'izona, 

 Texas, southern Illinois and Indiana, New Jersey, and Bermudas, 

 southward to Peru (Tambo Valley; Pacasmayo), and Venezuela, 

 casually (?) to Paraguay and Chile; casual in Newfoundland; acci- 

 dental in British Islands (River Avon, England, April, 1857; Peter- 

 head, Scotland, 1867). 



[Charadrius] vocifenis Linn^us, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, i, 1758, 150 (Virginia and 

 [South] Carolina; based on Chattering Plover, Pluvialis vodjerus Catesby, 

 Nat. Hist. Carolina, i, 1730, 71, pi. 71); ed. 12, i, 1766, 253.— Gmelin, Syst. 

 Nat., i, pt. ii, 1789, 685.— Latham, Index Orn., ii, 1790, 742.— Turton, 

 Syst. Nat., i, 1806, 413.— Gray, Hand-list, iii, 1871, 14, no. 9987, part.— 

 D'Hamonville, Cat. Ois. Eur., 1876, 48 (England). 



Charadrius voci/erus Wilson, Am. Om., vii, 1813, 73, pi. 59, fig. 6. — Vieillot, 

 Nouv. Diet. d'Hist. Nat., xxvii, 1818, 141. — Bonaparte, Ann. Lye. N. Y., 

 ii, 1827, 297. — Swainson and Richardson, Fauna Bor.-Am., ii, 1831, 

 368. — Jardine, ed. Wilson's Am. Orn., ii, 1832, pi. 59, fig. 6. — Nuttall, 

 Man. Orn. U. S. and Can., Water Birds, 1834, 22.— Audubon, Orn. Biog., 

 iii, 1835, 191, pi. "215"=225; v, 1839, 577; Synopsis, 1839, 222; Birds Am., 

 8vo ed., V, 1842, 207, pi. 317.— Vigors, Zool. Voy. "Blossom," Bii-ds, 1839, 

 29.— TowNSEND, Journ. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., viii, 1839, 156 (n. w. United 

 States). — Peabody, Rep. Orn. Mass., 1839, 360. — Gray, List Birds Brit. 



