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British Columbia, and United States to coasts and islands of Lower 

 California (San Martin, San Miguel, San Geronimo, Santa Margarita, 

 Natividad, and Los Coronados islands); casual at Point Barrow, 

 Alaska, and in northeastern Siberia (Wrangel Island; Chaun Bay); 

 accidental in India. 



Strepsilas melanocephalus Vigors, Zool. Journ., iv, 1S29, 356 (northwest coast of 

 North America); Zool. Voy. 'Blossom,' Birds, 1839, 29 (no locality men- 

 tioned). — Baird, in Stansbary's Rep. Great Salt Lake, 1852, 334 (Monterey, 

 California).— Cassin, in Baird, Bep. Pacific R. R. Siirv., ix, 1858, 702; 

 ed. 1860 (Birds N. Am.), pi. 7.— Brown, Ibis, 1868, 424 (Vancouver Island).— 

 Baird, Brewer, and Ridgway, Water Birds N. Am., i, 1884, 124. — Seebohm, 

 Geog. Distr. Charadriidae, 1887, pp. xxv, 411. 



S[trepsilas] melanocejyhalus Gambel, Journ. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 2dser, i, 1849, 

 220 (coast California).— Coues, Key N. Am. Birds, 2d ed., 1884, 609. 



Strepsilas melanocepJiala Baird, Cat. N. Am. Birds, 1859, no. 516. — Dall and 

 Bannister, Trans. Chicago Ac. Sci., i, 1869, 290 (St. Michaels and Nulato, 

 Alaska).- Ridgway, Proc. IT. S.Nat. Mus., iii, 1880, 198 (Cat. N. Am. Birds, 

 no. 510); Nom. N. Am. Birds, 1881, no. 510.— Bean, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., v, 

 1882, 163 (Eschscholtz Bay, Alaska, Sept.). — Nelson, Cruise 'Corwin' in 

 1881 (1S83), 83 (roast Norton Sound, etc., Alaska; Wrangel Island; crit.).— 

 McLenegan, Cruise 'Corwin,' 1884, 119 (Kowak River or Hotham Inlet, 

 n. w. Alaska). 



Morinella vielanocephala Stejneger, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., v, June 5, 1882, 34. — 

 Thayer and Bangs, Proc. New Engl. Zool. Club, v. 1914, 24 (Chaun Bay, 

 e. Siberia, Aug. 15). 



Arenaria vielanocephala Stejneger, Auk, i, July, 1884, 229. — American Ornith- 

 ologists' Union, Check List, 1886, and 2d ed., 1895, no. 284; 3rd ed., 1910, 

 p. 132.— Turner, Contr. N. H. Alaska, 1886, 150 (St. Michaels, Kuskoquim 

 River, Belkofsky, Unga Island, and Sanak Island, Alaska; habits). — Nelson, 

 Rep. N. H. Coll. Alaska, 1887, 129 (coasts Bering Sea; Point Barrow; habits). — 

 TowNSEND (C. H.), Auk, iv, 1887, 12 (Kowak River, n. w. Alaska, July, 

 Aug.); Cruise 'Corwin' in 1885 (1887), 92 (Kowak Delta, July 4; Hotham 

 Inlet).— Bryant (W. E.), Proc. Calif. Ac. Sci., ser. 2, ii, 1889, 275 (San 

 Martin Island and Santa Margarita Island, Lower California).— Elliot, 

 N. Am. Shore Birds, 1895, 204, pi. 69.— Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xxiv, 

 1896, 103, 729.— Grinnell (J.), Pub. 1, Pasadena Ac. Sci., 1897, 26 (San 

 Clemente Island, California, March).— Chapman, Bull. Am. Mus. N. H., x\-i, 

 1902, 235 (Homer, Cook Inlet, Alaska, June 28); xx, 1904, 401 (Bird Island, 

 near Homer, Alaska).— Grinnell and Daggett, Auk. xx, 1903, 33 (Los 

 Coronados Islands, Lower California, Aug.). — Thayer and Bangs, Condor, 

 ix, 1907, 80 (Natividad Island, Lower California, April). — Linton, Condor, 

 X, 1903, 126 (Santa Cruz Island, California).— Wright, Condor, xi, 1909, 100 

 (Los Coronados Islands). — Hersey, Smithson. Misc. Coll., vol. 66, no. 2, 

 1916, 26 (St. Michaels and mouth of Yukon River, Alaska). — Gianini, Auk, 

 xxxiv, 1918, 399 (Stepovak Bay, Alaska Peninsula, May 25). 



A [renaria] melanocephala Ridgway, Man. N. Am. Birds, 1887, 181. 



[Arenaria] vielanocephala Sharpe, Hand-list, i, 1899, 146. — Forbes and Robinson 

 Bull. Liverp. Mus., ii, no. 2, 1899, 62. 



[Strepsilas interpres] Var. melanocephalus Coues, Key N. Am. Birds, 1872, 246. 



Strepsilas interpres . . . var. melanocephalus Coues, Check List, 1873, no. 406a. 



Strepsilas interpres melanocephalus Coues and Kidder, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., 

 no. 7, 1877, 17 (San Geronimo Island, Lower California). — Coues, Check List, 

 2d ed., 1882, no. 599. 



[Strepsilas interpres] h. melanocephalus Coues, Birds Northwest, 1874, 459. 



Charadrius melanocephalus Seebohm, Hist. Brit. Birds, iii, 1885, 12. 



