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Lond., 1862, 319 (Tientsin, n. China); 1863, 309 (China); Ibis, 1863, 404 

 (Formosa, "breeding-"); 1865, 355 (Takow, China); 1870, 360 (Rainau).— 

 Cassin, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Piiila., 1862, 321 (Bonin Islands). — Blakiston, 

 Ibis, 1863, 100 (Hakodate).— Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soe. Lond., 1863, 17 

 (Baujarmassing). — Wright, Ibis, 1864, 141 (Malta); 1865, 462 (Malta). — 

 Haktlaub, Ibis, 1864, 232 (Fiji Islands).— Beav an. Ibis, 1868, 389 (Julpi- 

 goorie, India). — Blanford, Ibis, 1868, 470 (Pegu); 1870, 470 (Irawadi, 

 India); Journ. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, xl, 1871, 269 (Wardha Valley, India). — 

 Godwin-Austin, Journ. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, xxxix, 1870, 273 (Khasia Hills, 

 India). — Harting, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1871, 115 (Bering Straits; Choris 

 Peninsula).— Hume and Henderson, Laliore to Yarkand, 1873, 284 (Lahore, 

 Aug.) — Lloyd, Ibis, 1873, 416 (Kettiawar, India).— Ramsay, Proc. Zool. Soc. 

 Lond., 1877, 336 (n..e. Queensland); Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. W., i, 1877, 76 (Fiji 

 Islands), 218 (New South Wales).— Mitller, Journ. fur Orn., 1882, 82 (Sa- 

 langa Island, Siam; crit.). — Murray, Vertebr. Fauna Sind, 1884, 234. 



[Charadrius] longipes Gray, Hand-list, iii, 1871, 14, no. 9984. 



[Charadrius pluvialis] y. longipes Blasius, List Birds Europe (ed. Newton), 

 1862, 17. 



Charadrius (Hiaticula) longipes Martens, Journ. fiir Orn.. 1866, 27 (Philippines). 



Charadrius mongolicus (not of Pallas, 1826) Blakiston, Ibis, 1862, 330 (Hako- 

 date, Japan). 



Charadrius donvmicus (not of MiiUer) Nelson, Cruise "Corwin- in 1881 (1S83), 

 84, part (Norton Sound, Alaska); Rep. N. H. Coll. Alaska, 1887, 123, part 

 (St. Michaels; habits, crit., etc.). — ^Giglioli and Salvadori, Proc. Zool. 

 Soc. Lond., 1887, 585 (Olga Bay, Korea; crit.).— Siiarpe, Cat. Birds Brit. 

 Mus., xxiv, 1896, 195, 738, part. — Collett, Yid.-Selsk Forh. Christiania, 

 1898, no. 6, p. 6 (Tonga Island). — Bonhote, Proc. Zool. Soc. T^ond., 1901, 

 79 (Patelung and Tringganu, Malay Peninsula). — Bartels, Journ. fiir Orn., 

 1908, 478 (Pulu Islands, Java Sea, Sept.). 



{Charadrius] doniinicus Sharpe, Hand-list, i, 1899, 152 part. — Forbes and Rob- 

 inson, Bull. Liverp. Mus., ii, no. 2, 1899, 65, part. 



Genus EUDROMIAS Brehm. 



Eudromias Brehm, Isis, xxiii, 1830, 937. (Type, by monotyi^y, Charadrius 



morinellus Linnaeus.) 

 Morinellus (not Morinella Meyer and Wolf, 1810) Bonaparte, Corapt. Rend., 



xliii, 1856, 417. (Type, by tautonymy, Charadrius morinellus Linnaeus.) 



Medium-sized Charadriid?P (wing 137-149 mm.) with veiy small 

 slender bill (much less than half as long as head) and more or less 

 streaked upper parts. 



Bill small and slender, much less than half as long as head, the 

 exposed culmen shorter than distance from its base to anterior angle 

 of eye and much shorter than middle toe v/ithout claw, its terminal 

 third (approximately) distinctly convex, the gonys straight or very 

 faintly convex, its basal angle not conspicuous; nasal gi'oove extend- 

 ing for less than two-thirds the length of maxilla. Vr^ing moderately 

 long, very pointed, the longest primaiy (outermost) exceeding distal 

 secondaries by decidedly more than half the length of folded wing, 

 and extending slightly beyond tips of longest tertials. Tail about 

 half as long as wing, rounded or slightly graduated, the rectrices 

 subacuminate at tips, especially the middle pair. Tarsus slender, 



