BIRDS OF NOBTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 131 



Cory, Birds Bahama Is., 1880, 148 (Bahamas, winter and spring). — Reid, 

 Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., no. 25, 1884, 230 (Bermudas, 3 specs., 1848, 1850).— 

 Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xxiv, 1896, 292 (Hudson Bay; Lake of the 

 Woods; Corpus Christi, Texas; etc.). 



/E[gi(iHtis] mclodus Ridgvvay, Ann. Lye. N. Y., x, 1874, 383 (Illinois). 



[^(jialitis] melodus Cory, List Birds West Ind., revised ed., 1886, 25 (Bahamas; 

 Greater Antilles). 



jEyialilis meloda Brewster, Bull. Xutt. Orn. Club, iv, 1879, -M (descr. young). — 

 Scott, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, iv, 1879, 224 (Long Beach, New Jersey, breed- 

 ing): Auk, ix, 1892, 15 (Jamaica, Oct., 1887, abundant). — Ridgway, Proc. 

 U. S. Nat. Mus., iii, 1880, 199. — American Ornithologists' Union, Check 

 List, 1886 (and 2d ed., 1895), no. 277; 3rded., 1910, 129.— Seton, Auk, iii, 

 1886, 152 (Lake Manitoba, June 12; Lake Winnipeg, 4 specs.). — Cory, 

 Auk, iv, 1887, 230 (West Indian localities and references); Birds West Ind., 

 1889, 230: Cat. West Ind. Birds, 1892, 95 (Bahamas; Cul)a: Jamaica; Porto 

 Rico). — Bishop, Auk, vi, 1889, 147 (Magdalen Islands, breeding). — Rives, 

 (at. Bii'ds Virginia, 1890, 58 (Cobbs Island, breeding;. — Elliot, N. Am. 

 Shore Birds, 1895, 185, pi. 61.— Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xxiv, 1896, 748 

 (Greenland, Jan.; Eastport, Maine; Ipswich, Massachusetts; Pennsylvania). — 

 Fleming, Auk, xxiii, 1906, 451 (Toronto, Ontario, regular migrant; all old 

 records are typical form, all recent ones M. m. cirmmdncta) . — Taverner 

 and Swales, Wilson Bull., no. 60, 1907, 89 (Point Pelee, Ontario, breeding; 

 habits, etc.). — Jones (L.), Wilson Bull., xxi, 1909, 131 (Cedar Point, n. 

 Ohio, breeding). — Visher, Auk, xxviii, 1911, 10 (Harding Co., South Da- 

 kota, July 17, 18). — Howe, Auk, xxx, 1913, 115 (St. George Bay, Newfound- 

 land). — Bunker, Kansas Univ. Sci. Bull., vii, 1913, 145 (Douglas Co., 

 Kansas, May 27, 1909).— Wetmore, Bull. 326, U. S. Dept. Agric, 1916, 38 

 (Porto Rico, rare visitant). — Philipp and Bowdish, Auk, xxxiv, 1917, 266 

 (n. New Brunswick, breeding; habits). 



jE[gialitis] meloda Ridgway, Man. N. Am. Birds, 1887, 178. 



[^gi(ditis] meloda Sharpe, Hand-list, i, 1899, 155. — Forbes and Robinson, 

 Bull. Liverp. Mus., ii, no. 2, 1899, 67. 



Hiaticula meloda Gray, List Birds Brit. Mus., iii, 1844, 69. 



[Aegialeus] melodxs Gitndlach, Journ. fiir Orn., 1861, 342 (Cuba): 1874, 314 

 (Porto Rico): 1878, 162 (Porto Rico). — Heine and Reichenow, Nom. Mus. 

 Hein. Orn., 1890, 336. 



JEgialeiis melodus Allen, Proc. Essex Inst., iv, 1864, 86 (coast of Massachusetts, 

 summer). 



Aegialeus vielodits Gundlach, Repert. Fisico-Nat. Cuba, i, 1866, 359; Journ. fiir 

 Orn., 1875, 386 (Cuba): 1878, 189 (Porto Rico): Anal. Soe. Esp. Hist. Nat., 

 vii, 1878, 385 (Porto Rico). 



Charndrius ofceni Wagler, Syst. Av., 1827, Charadrius, Sp. 24 (based on Wilson, 

 Amer. Orn., v, 1812, pi. 37, fig. 3). 



Mgialilis melodus, Var. circumdnctus Ridgway, Am. Nat., \'iii, no. 2, Feb., 1874, 

 109 (Loup Fork of Platte River, Nebraska; coll. U. S. Nat. Mus.). 



{Mgialitis meloda . . . var. drcumdncta'] a. meloda Coues, Birds Northwest, 

 1874, 455. 



\jEgialiiis meloda.] a. Var. meloda Baird, Brewer, and Ridgway, Water Birds 

 N. Am., i, 1884, 160. 



Mgialitis melodus b. var. drcumdnctus Coues, Check List, 1873, App. p. 130, no. 

 400rt (nomen nudum). 



^gialitis meloda b. var. drcumdncta Coues, Check List, ed. 1874, no. 400a. 



[jEgialitis meloda var. drcumdncta] b. drcumdncta Coues, Birds Northwest, 

 1874, 455. 



