128 BULLETIN 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



Charadrius hiaticuloides Franklin, Proc. Comm. Sci. Zool. Soc. Lond., i, 1831, 



125 (Ganges River, India). 

 Charadrius intermedius Menetries, Cat. Rais. Caucas., 1832, 53 (Lenkoran). — 



Bonaparte, Geog. and Comp. List., 1838, 45. 

 ^gialitis intermedia Sharps, Ibis, 1872, 73 (Accra, w. Africa). 

 Mgialitis intermedius Swinhoe, Ibis, 1870, 361 (Hainan). 



Charadrius zonatus Swainson, Birds West Africa, ii, 1837, 235, pL 25 (w. Africa). 

 Aegialites zonatus Hartlaub, Orn. West-Afrika, 1857, 216 (Gambia; Elmina; 



Sacconde). 

 Charadnu^ alexandrinus (not of Linnseus) Thienemann, Abbild. Vogeleiern, 



1845-56, pL 59. — Reichenow, Journ. fiir Orn., 1889, 265 (Quilimane, e. 



Africa). — Schalow, Journ. fiir Orn., 1891, 259 (Kadiak Island, Alaska). — 



Reichenow, Jahrb. Hamb. Wissensch. Aust., x, 1893, 6 (Quilimane). 

 Mgialitis alexandrina Durnford, Ibis, 1874, 398 (North Frisian Islands). 

 [Hiaticula] simplex Lichtenstein, Nom. Av. Mus. Berol., 1854, 94 (East Indies; 



nomen nudum) . 

 Charadrius gracilis Brehm, Naumannia, 1855, 288. 

 Aegialitis gracilis Brehm, Vogelf., 1855, 282 (Greece), 

 Charadrius pygmaeus Brehm, Naumannia, 1855, 289. 



Aegialitis pijgmaea Brehm, Vogelf., 1855, 282 (s. e. Europe; Africa, winter). 

 Mgialitfis microrhrjnchus Ridgway, Am. Nat., viii, no. 2, Feb., 1874, 109 (San 



Francisco, California; coll. U. S. Nat. Mus.). — Coues, Check List, ed. 1874, 



App., p. 133, no. 400 bis. 

 /Egialitis microrhyncha Coues, Birds Northwest, 1874, 456. 

 ^^gialitis hiaticula (not Charadrius hiaticula Linnaeus) Ramsay, Proc. Linn. Soc. 



N. S. W., i, 1877, 394 (Port Moresby, New Guinea); ii, 1878, 197 (s. New 



Guinea); iii, 1879, 279 (Laloki River); Tab. List Australian Birds, 1888, 19 



(New South Wales). 

 M[gialitis] jerdoni Legge, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1&80, 39 (India). 

 jEgialitis jerdoni Legge, Birds Ceylon, 1880, 956. — Salvadori, Orn. Papuasia, etc., 



iii, 1882, 303; Agg. Orn. Papuasia, etc., iii. 1891, 200; Ann. Mus. Genova, (2), 



xii, 1891, 75 (Sumatra).— Biddulph, Ibis, 1882, 287 (Gilgit, May, Sept.).— 



Da\'tdson, Stray Feath., x, 1882, 275 (w. Kandeish). — Hume, Stray Feath., 



xi, 1888, 315 (Manipur basin). — Ramsay, Tab. List Australian Birds, 1888, 19. 

 Charadrius rainor jerdoni Sbebohm, Geog. Distr. Charadriidse, 1888, 132. 



CHARADRIUS MELODUS Ord. 



PIPING PLOVER. 



Adult male in summer. — Forehead (broadly), whole of loral region, 

 and sides of head generally (except auricular region), under parts, and 

 broad nuchal collar immaculate white; patch or band across fore part 

 of crown, extending from eye to eye, and a much larger one on each 

 side of lower neck or upper chest black, the latter sometimes meeting 

 or confluent on median portion; rest of under parts, including axillars 

 and under wing-coverts, immaculate white; upper parts (except as 

 described) pale grayish brown or brownish gray, the anterior lesser 

 wing-coverts darker, the greater coverts tipped with white, the lateral 

 upper tail-coverts and sides of rump also white; secondaries white, 

 the distal ones with outer webs dusky terminally or sub terminally; 

 primaries dusky with more or less of white on distal portion of outer 

 webs (their inner webs white for greater part), the proximal quills 

 with outer webs white except terminally; tail pale grayish brown on 



