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FiNSCH, Ibis, 1877, 49 (Semipalatinsk); Verb. z.-b. ges. Wien, xxix, 1879, 246 

 (Irtisch). — Taczanowski, Bull. Soc. Zool. France, ii, 1877, 156 (Poland). — 

 Butler, Stray Feath., v, 1877, 212 (Mandavee); Cat. Birds Sind, etc., 1879, 

 60 (Sind, Cutch, and Kathiawar, India); Cat. Birds S. Bombay Pres., 1880, 

 74 (Bombay and Ratnagiri, India). — Bogdanow, Birds Caucas., 1879, 154; 

 Consp. Av. Imp. Ross., 1884, 77.— Vidal, Stray Feath., ix, 1880, 83 (s. Kon- 

 kan). — Legge, Birds Ceylon, 1880, 987 (n. half. w. coast Ceylon). — See- 

 BOHM, Ibis, 1882, 222 (Astrakhan), 380 (Archangel, n. Russia); 1883, 29 

 (Caucasus); 1890, 409 (Great Sal tee Island); 1892, 24 (Helgoland); Hist. Brit. 

 Birds, iii, 1885, 4; Geog. Distr. Charadriidse, 1887, pp. xxi, 301, figs. — 

 British Ornithologists' Union, List Brit. Bii-ds, 1883, 162. — Severtzov, 

 Ibis, 1883, 74 (Pamir-Alichur, near Boohma-Kul). — Baird, Brewer, and 

 RiDGWAY, Water Birds N. Am., i, 1884, 110.— Radde, Orn. Caucas., 1884, 44, 

 423 (s. w. shores of Caspian Sea and Lenkoran, breeding). — Yerbury, Ibis, 1886, 

 21 (Aden, Arabia). — American Ornithologists' Union, Check List, 1886, 

 and 2nd ed., 1895, no. 285; 3rd ed., 1910, p. 132.— Tait, Ibis, 1887, 387 

 (Portugal). — Reichenow, Syst. Verz. Vog. Deutschl., 1889, 53. — Lilford, 

 Ibis, 1889, 339 (Cyprus).— Brusina, Motr., etc., (Orn. Croatia), 1890, 88.— 

 TuRLE, Ibis, 1891, 6 (Blasket Island, breeding). — Gatke, Vogelw. Helgo- 

 land, 1891, 514.— Sharpe, Ibis, 1891, 114 (Fao, Oct.); Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., 

 xxiv, 1896, 729. — ^Madarasz, Ausst. Ungar. Vogelf., 1891, 104. — Frivaldsky, 

 Aves Hungar., 1891, 125. — Hartert, Ibis, 1892, 517 (e. Prussia).— Barnes, 

 ' Ibis, 1893, 170 (Aden).— Blagg, Ibis, 1893, 355 (Shetland).— Blaauw, Notes 

 Leyden Mus., xv, 1893, 226 (Holland).— Poynting, Eggs Brit. Birds, pt. i, 

 1895, 75, pi. 18.— Elliot, N. Am. Shore Birds, 1895, 205, pi. 70.— Ibis, 1896, 

 155 (Madras, India). — Pearson, Ibis, 1896, 212 (Russian Lapland). — Pop- 

 ham, Ibis, 1897, 102 (Yeneseisk, Siberia); 1898, 513 (Yenesei River, Siberia).— 

 Grant, Novit. Zool., vii, 1900, 267 (s. Arabia).— Witherby, Ibis, 1903, 566 

 (Fars, s. w. Persia). 



H[aematopus] ostralegus Keyserling and Blasius, Wirb. Eur., 1840, pp. Ixxi, 

 209.— Gray, Gen. Birds, iii,° 1847, 547.— Nordmann, Journ. fur Orn., 1864, 

 373 (Finland). 



Haemantopus [lapsus] ostralegus Salvadori, Journ. fiir Orn., 1865, 285 (Sardinia). 



Haematopus ostrealegus Boie, Journ. fiir Orn., 1869, 95. 



E[3smatopus] ostrilegus Coues, Key N. Am. Birds, 2d ed., 1884, 606. 



Uxmalopus ostrilegus Coues, Check List, 2nd ed., 1882, no. 595. 



Haematopus astralegus Kjaerbolling, Naumannia, i, 1850, 46 (Denmark). 



Scolopaxpica Scopoli, Ann. I. Hist. Nat., 1769, 95. 



Ostralega pica Bonnaterre, Tabl. Enc. M^th., i, 1790, 26. 



Oslralega europxa Lesson, Man. d'Orn., ii, 1828, 300; Traits d'Orn., 1831, 548. 



Haematopus balthicus Brehm, Vog. Deutschl., 1831, 562 (Baltic Sea coast). 



Ostralegus vulgaris Lesson, Rev. Zool., 1839, 47 {nomen nudum). 



Ostralegus hsematopus Macgillivray, Man. Brit. Orn., ii, 1842, 59 (Great Britain). 



[?] Hsematopus macrorhynchus Blyth, Journ. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, xiv, 1845, 549 

 (India). 



HAEMATOPUS PALLIATUS PALLIATUS Temminck. 



AMERICAN OYSTER-CATCHER. 



Adults (sexes alike). — Head, neck and upper chest uniform black, 

 with very faint gloss of bluish green; a white bar or streak immedi- 

 ately beneath lower eyelid; back, scapulars, rump, median-anterior 

 upper tail-coverts and greater part of wings plain grayish brown or 

 brownish gray (nearly hair brown or deep drab) ; tips of middle 

 wing- overts (broadly), whole of exposed portion of greater coverts, 



