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Adult male.— Wing, 99-118.5 (112.3); tail, 55-60 (57.5); culmen, 

 13-15 (13.3); tarsus, 22.5-25.5 (23.7); middle toe, 14.5-16 (15.3).« 



Adult female.— Wing, 114-118 (115.5); tail, 54-62 (58); culmen, 

 12.7-13 (12.9); tarsus, 23.5-25.5 (24.3); middle toe, 14-15.5 (15).'' 



Europe and Asia, breeding from western Europe to eastern Siberia ; 

 winters southward to middle Africa (Fernando Po and Gold Coast 

 on Atlantic side; Somali-land, etc., on eastern side), India, Malay- 

 Peninsula, Philippine Islands, Ceylon, Sumatra, Borneo, Java, Cele- 

 bes, etc., southward to New Guinea and Australia; accidental in 

 California (San Francisco) and Alaska (Kodiak Island). 



Charadrius dubius Scopoli, Delic. Florae et Faunae Insubr., ii, 1786, 93 (Luzon 

 Island, Philippines). — Hartert, Ibis, 1892, 576 (e. Prussia).— Pogge, Journ. 

 fiu-Orn., 1902, 386 (n. e. Siberia).— Heinroth, Journ. fur Orn., 1902, 400 

 (Bismarck Archipelago). 



JEgialites dubius Swinhoe, Proc. Zool. Soc. Loncl.,1871, 401 (s. China; Formosa; 

 Hainan; crit.).—WALDEN, Trans. Zool. Soc. Lond., \iii, pt. ii, 1872, 89 (Ayer 

 Pannas, Celebes). — Holusworth, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1872, 471 (Cey- 

 lon). — Tweeddale, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1878, 344 (South Leyte Island, 

 Philippines). 



jEgialitis dubia Swinhoe, Ibis, 1875, 452 (Hakodate, Japan). — Sharpe, Ibis, 1876, 

 51 (Sibu, Borneo); Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1879, 350 (Labuan Island, Borneo); 

 1901, 314 (near Berbera; Laskerato, Somali-land). — Tweeddale, Proc. Zool. 

 Soc. Lond., 1877, 701 (Luzon, Philippines; crit.). — Blakiston and Pryer, 

 Ibis, 1878, 219 (Yezo, Tokyo, Fujisan, and Yokohama, Japan). — Seebohm, 

 Ibis, 1879, 25 (Japan; crit.).— Kelham, Ibis, 1882, 10 (Pulo Battam and 

 Singapore, Malay Peninsula; crit.). — ^American Ornithologists' Union, 

 Check List, 1886, and 2nd ed., 1895, no. 276; 3rd ed., 1910, p. 129.— Elliot, 

 N. Am. Shore Birds, 1895, 182, pi. 60.— Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xxiv, 

 1896, 263, 744.— Grant, Novit. Zool., vii, 1900, 268 (s. Arabia).— Bangs, 

 Proc. New Engl. Zool. Club, iii, 1903, 94 (Liu Kiu Islands).— Jesse, Ibis, 

 1903, 162 (Fyzabad and Fatehgarh, India; descr. nest and eggs). — ^Alex- 



