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Breeding, locally, from coast of Virginia (Cobbs Island, etc.), 

 northern Ohio (Cedar Point), northwestern Indiana (Millers), north- 

 eastern Illinois (Cook Co.), Iowa, and central Nebraska (Loup River), 

 also Kansas (Douglas Co.)?, northward to southern Saskatchewan, 

 southern Manitoba (Lake Winnipeg, Lake Manitoba), Ontario (Lake 

 of the Woods; Hamilton; Toronto; Point Pelee), southern Quebec 

 (Magdalen Islands and Amherst Island, Gulf of St. Lawrence), and 

 Nova Scotia; wintering on southern Atlantic and Gulf coasts of United 

 States (Georgia to Texas), northern Mexico, and Bahamas (resi- 

 dent?); occasional during migration in Bermudas, Cuba, Jamaica, 

 and Porto Rico. 



[Charadrius] hiaticula, part, Linn^us, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, i, 1758, 150 (America). 



Charadrius hiaticula, var. Wilson, Am. Orn., v, 1812, 30, pL 37, fig. 3. 



Charadrius melodus Ord, ed. Wilson's Am. Orn., ^ii, 1824, 71 (Great Egg Harbor, 

 New Jersey). — Bonaparte, Ann. Lye. N. Y., 11, 1827, 296; Am. Orn., iv, 

 1832, 74, pL 24.— NuTTALL, Man. Orn. U. S. and Can., Water Birds, 1834, 

 18. — Audubon, Orn. Blog., lii, 1835, 154, pL 220; v, 1839, 578; Synopsis 

 1839, 224; Birds Am., 8vo ed., v, 1842, 223, pL 321.— Peabody, Rep. Orn. 

 Mass., 1839, 359.— Wailes, Rep. GeoL, etc.. Miss., 1854, 321.— Putnam, 

 Proc. Essex Inst., 1, 185fi, 216 (Massachusetts). — Bryant, Proc. Best. Soc. 

 N. H., vl, 1857, 119 (Nova Scotia). — Willis, Ann. Rep. Sralthson. Inst, for 

 1858 (1859), 284 (Nova Scotia). — Bland, Ann. Rep. Smltlison. Inst, for 

 1858 (1859), 288 (Bermudas).— Brewer, Proc. Bost. Soc. N. H., vii, 1860, 

 308 (Cuba). — Schlegel, Mus. Pays-Bas, Iv, no. 29 (Cursores), 1865, 29. — 

 Seebohm, Geog. Distr. Charadrildse, 1888, pp. xvl, 121. 



C[haradrius] melodus Bonaparte, Journ. Ac. Nat. Scl. Phlla., v, 1825, 99; Obs. 

 NomencL Wilson's Am. Orn., 1826, [181].— Gray, Gen. Birds, ill, 1847, 544. 



Char[adrius] melodus Martens, Journ. fur Orn., 1859, 217 (Bermudas). 



[Charadrius] melodus Gray, Hand-list, ill, 1871, 16, no. 10010. 



Mgialites melodus Bonaparte, Geog. and Comp. List, 1838, 45. — Gosse, Birds 

 Jamaica, 1847, 330. — Jardine, Contr. Orn., 1849, 83 (Bermudas). — Bry- 

 ant, Proc. Bost. Soc. N. H., vii, 1859, 121 (Bahamas, resident). — March, 

 Proc. Ac. Nat. Scl. Phlla., xvl, 1864, 66 (Jamaica). — Brewer, Am. Nat., 

 lii, 1869, 231 (New England coast). — Ridgway, Nom. N. Am. Birds, 1881, no. 

 520.— CouES, Check List, 2nd ed., 1882, no. 587. 



^[gialites'] melodus, Jardine, Contr. Orn., 1850, 9 (Bermudas, Sept. 5). — Coues, 

 Key N. Am. Birds, 2nd ed., 1884, 602. 



Aeg[ialites] melodus Albrecht, Journ. fiir Orn., 1861, 55 (Bahamas). 



Aegialitis melodus Cabanis, Journ. fur Orn., 1856, 424 (Cuba). — Cassin, In Balrd, 

 Rep. Pacific R. R. Surv., Ix, 1858, 695.— Baird, Cat. N. Am. Birds, 1859, 

 no. 508. — GuNDLACH, Joiurn. fiir Orn., 1862, 88 (Cuba; crlt.). — Boardman, 

 Proc. Bost. Soc. N. H., ix, 1862, 128 (Calais, Maine). — Albrecht, Joimi. fiir 

 Orn., 1862, 205 (Jamaica).— Lawrence, Ann. Lye. N. Y., vlii, 1867, 295 

 (vicinity of New York City).- Coues, Proc. Bost. Soc. N. H., xll, 1868, 122 

 (South Carolina).— TuRNBULL, Birds E. Penn. and N. J., 1869, 38, fig. 

 (Phlla. ed., 29). 



Mgialitis melodus Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lend., 1861, 80 (Jamaica). — Ver- 

 RiLL, Proc. Essex Inst., lii, 1862, 157 (Oxford Co., Maine). — McIlwraith, 

 Proc. Essex Inst., v, 1866, 92 (Hamilton, Ontario). — Coues, Proc. Essex 

 Inst., V, 1868, 291 (New England, summer); Check List, 1873, no. 400.— 

 Brewer, Proc. Bost. Soc. N. H., xvil, 1875, 445 (New England, summer). — 



