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Atlantic and Gulf coasts of United States, Gulf coast of Mexico and 

 British Honduras, and West Indies; breeding from coast of Virginia 

 (formerly New Jersey) southward to Bahamas (Andros, Inagua, Little 

 Abaco, Concepcion, and Rum Cay) to Jamaica (Spanishtown), and Brit- 

 ish Honduras (Grassy Cay), probably in other West Indian islands, 

 in which its occurrence is recorded from Cuba (Cabanas; Mariel), 

 Haiti (Saman^, Santo Domingo), Porto Rico, Vieques, St. Thomas, 

 St. Christopher, Anegada, Virgin Gorda, and Guadeloupe; occurring 

 occasionally or accidentally northward to New York (vicinity of 

 New York City; Long Island, several records; Utica, spring of 1868; 

 Oneida Lake, 1880), Connecticut (Garnet, Aug. 22, 1877), Massa- 

 chusetts (Nahant, August, formerly), and Nova Scotia (Brier Island, 

 April, 28 1880; Halifax). (Possibly occurring, as a winter visitant 

 or resident, along coast of Brazil, though the Braziliaii specimens 

 may be referable to F. w. cinnamotaina.) 



Charadrius wilsonia Ohd, in Wilson's Am. Orii., ix, 1814, 77, j)l. 73, fig. 5 ('' Shores 



of Cape Island "=Cape May, New Jersey; probable type now in coll. Mus. 



Comp. Zool.; see Faxon, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., lix, 1915, 133); ed Wilson's 



Am. Orn., ix, 1825, 77, pi. 73, fig. 5. 

 Chaiadrius vjilsonius Vieillot, Nouv. Diet. d'Hist. Nat., xxvii, 1818, 148, part. — 



Bonaparte, Ann. Lye. N. Y., ii, 1827, 296. — Nuttall, Man. Orn. U. S. 



and Can., Water Birds, 1834, 21. — ^Audubon, Orn. Biog., iii, 1835, 73, pi. 



209; V, 1839, 577; Synopsis, 1839, 223; Birds Am., 8vo ed., v, 1842, 214, pi. 



319. — Peabody, Rep. Orn. Mass., 1839, 359 (abundantat Nahantin August). — 



Lembeye, Aves de la Isla de Cuba, 1850, lOG. — Wailes, Rep. Geol., etc., 



Miss., 1854, 321 (Mississippi). — Putnam, Proc. Essex Inst., i, 1850, 224. — 



Brewer, Proc. Best. Soc. N. H., vii, 1860, 308 (Cuba). — Schlegel, Mub. 



Pays-Bas, iv, no. 29 (Cursores), 1865, 30, part. — (?) Pelzeln, Orn. Bras., 



1870, 297 (Rio Muria, Cujutul)a, Feb.).— Lawrence, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 



i, 1878, 450 (Guadeloupe).— Bangs, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., Ix, 1910,306 



(Cayman Islands, breeding). 

 C[haradnii„s] loilsonius Bonaparte, Journ. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., v, 1825, 100 



(crit.); Obs. Nomencl. Wilson's Am. Orn., 1826, [182].— (?) Pelzeln, Orn. 



Bras., 1870, 455. 

 jEglalUes mlsonius Bonaparte, Geog. and Comp. List, 1838, 45. — Bryant, Proc- 



Best. Soc. N. H., vii, 1859, 121 (Bahamas, resident). — March, Proc. Ac. Nat. 



Sci. Phila., xvi, 1864, 66 (Jamaica). — Dresser, Ibis, 1866, 34 (Galveston 



Island, Texas). — Coues, Check List, 1873, no. 585; Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, 



vii, 1882, 59 (Garnet, Connecticut, Aug. 22, 1877).— Nehrling, Bull. Nutt. 



Orn. Club, vii, 1882, 222 (coasts, e. Texas, breeding). 

 [AegialUes] wilsonius Albrecht, Journ. fiir Orn., 1861, 55 (Bahamas). 

 ^[gialites] vnlsonius Coues, Key N. Am. Birds, 2d ed., 1884, 601. 

 Aeglaiitis wilsonius Cassin, in ]3aird. Rep. Pacific R. R. Rep., ix, 1858, 693; 



Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1860, 378 (St. Thomas, Greater Antilles).— Baird, 



Cat. N. Am. Birds, 1859, no. 506. 

 [Aegialitis] wilsonius TyAWRENCE, Ann. Lye. N. Y., viii, 1866, 294 (vicinity New 



York City). 

 [^jialills] wilsonius Coues, Key N. Am. Birds, 1872, 244. — Cory, List Birds 



West Ind., revised ed., 1886, 25. 

 MjialiLis wilsonius Coues, Proc. Essex Inst., v, 1868, 291; Proc. Bost. Soc. N. IT., 



xii, 1868, 122 (South Carolina); Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., xxiii, 1871, 28 



