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Adult male.—Wmg, 147-181.5 (165.9); tail, 5S-69 (63.6); cul- 

 men, 21-25 (23.4) ; tarsus, 39-45.5 (42.9) ; middle toe, 22-26.5 (23.1).« 



Adult iemale.— Wing, 156-187.5 (167.2); tail, 59-67 (62.5); cul- 

 men, 21.5-24.5 (23.2); tarsus, 39.5-46 (43.3); middle toe, 23.5-27 

 (24.1).^ 



Breeding in northeastern Siberia from Liakoff Island to Bering 

 Strait and along Bering Sea coast of Alaska; migrating to Hawaiian 

 Islands and other islands throughout Pacific Ocean and along Pacific 

 coast of Asia to Japan, Philippine Islands, Malay Peninsula and 

 Archipelago, Borneo, Java, etc., as far as Australia, Tasmania, and 

 New Zealand; casual or occasional westward to Arabia (Muscat), 

 Malta, Spain, Helgoland, and British Islands. 



[Charadrius] fulvus Gmelin, Syst. Nat., i, pt. ii, 1789, 687 (Otaheite; based on 

 Fulvous Plover Latham, Gen. Synop. Birds, iii, pt. i, 1785, 211). — Latham, 

 Index Orn., ii, 1790, 747.— Turton, Syst. Nat., i, 1806, 414.— Gray, Hand- 

 list, iii, 1871, 14, no. 9985. 



Charadrius fulvus Yieillot, Nouv. Diet. d'Hist. Nat., xxvii, 1818, 139. — Gray, 

 List Birds Brit. Mus., Grallas, 1844, 67; Cat. Birds Trop. Is. Pacific Ocean, 

 1859, 47.— Cassin, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1862, 321 (Liu Kiu Islands).— 

 FiNSCH and Hartlaub, Faun. Central-poly nes., 1867, 188; Proc. Zool. Soc. 

 Lond., 1869, 548 (Tonga Islands); Journ. fiir Orn., 1870, 122 (Tongatabu; 

 Vavao; Hapai), 139 (Tonga Islands; crit.). — Hartlaub and Finsch, Proc. 

 Zool. Soc. Lond., 1868, 8, 117 (Pelew Islands); 1872, 89, 104 (Mackenzie Is- 

 lands).— Dole, Proc. Best. Soc. N. H., xii, 1869, 304 (Oahu and Molokai, 

 Hawaiian group). — Finsch, Journ. fiir Orn., 1870, 340 (New Zealand); 1872, 

 52 (Samoa), 168 (New Zealand); 1874, 193 (New Zealand); 1880, 293 (Ponape, 

 Caroline Islands), 305 (Kuschai, Carolines); Journ. Mus. Godeffr., viii, 1875, 

 31 (Pelew Islands); Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1877, 775 (Eua, Friendly Islands), 



