132 BULLETIN 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



^[gialitis] melodus var. circumcinctus- Nelson, Bull. Essex Inst., viii, 1876, 123 

 153 (shore Lake MicHgan, n. e. Illinois, April-Sept., breeding; very com- 

 mon). 



Mgialitis meloda var. circumcincta Eagle, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, iii, 1878, 94 

 (Rockaway, Long Island, April 30, 1873). 



[JEgialitis meloda.] b. Var. drcwndncta Baird, Brewer, and Ridgway, Water 

 Birds N. Am., i, 1884, 160. 



Mgialiiis meloda circumcincta Ridgway, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., iii, Aug. 24, 1880, 

 199.— Brewster, Auk, iii, 1886, 408 (Sullivans I., South Carolina, May 11, 

 1885). — Allen, Auk, iii, 1886, 482 (Long Beach, Barnegat Bay, New Jersey, 

 April, 1877; Scarboro Marshes and Portland, Maine, May 17, 1878, and May 

 2, 1880). — American Ornithologists' Union, Check List, 1886 (and 2d ed., 

 1895), no. 277a. — Smith and Palmer, Auk, v, 1888, 147 (Virginia shore, near 

 Washington, D. C, May 3, 1884).— Brown (N. C), Auk, vi, 1889, 70 (Scar- 

 boro, Maine). — Stone, Birds E. Penn. and New Jersey, 1894, 80 (Long Beach, 

 New Jersey). — Elliot, N. Am. Shore Bii-ds, 1895, 186, pi. 62.— Brackett, 

 Auk, xiii, 1896, 256 (Marshfield, Massachusetts, 1 pair, April 20, 1896).— 

 Raine, Auk, xiii, 1896, 256 (Lake Manitoba, breeding; descr. nest and 

 eggs). — Woodruff, Auk, xv, 1898, 62 (Millers, n. w. Indiana, breeding). — 

 Butler, Auk, xxiii, 1906, 273 (Millers, Indiana, breeding). 



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



JEgialites melodus circumcinctus Ridgway, Nom. N. Am. Birds, 1881, no. 520a. — 

 CouES, Check List, 2d ed., 1882, no. 588. 



M[gialites'\ mlelodus] circumcinctus? Coues, Key N. Am. Birds, 2d ed., 1884, 602. 



Charadrius melodus circumcinctus Seebohm, Geog. Distr. Charadr., 1887, pp. x\i, 

 122, fig. 



CHARADRIUS MONGOLUS Pallas, 



MONGOLIAN PLOVER. 



Adult male in summer. — ^A white frontal crescent, sometimes 

 divided by a median black line (usually indicated by superficial 

 spots ") ; immediately behind this a crescentic band or bar of black, 

 confluent on each side with a black loral area, extending from eye 

 to bill, broadest posteriorly, where extending beneath lower eyelid 

 to and involving more or less of auricular region, and, usually, 

 extending, very narrowly, across anterior portion of forehead; a 

 narrow white crescent on lower eyelid; crown and occiput brownish 

 gray or grayish brown (nearly hair brown), passing into pinkish buff 

 or light pinkish cinnamon anteriorly, laterally and posteriorly, this 

 into deep cinnamon on sides of neck and whole chest; malar region, 

 chin, throat and foreneck immaculate white, abruptly defined against 

 cinnamon of chest and sometimes separated from it by a narrow line 

 of dusky or chain of small blackish spots; anterior portion of sides 

 cinnamon, the feathers tipped with white, the posterior portion 

 brownish gray, with broader white tips to feathers; rest of under 

 parts immaculate white; back, scapulars, wing-coverts, tertials and 

 rump plain grayish brown (hair brown), the upper tail-coverts 



a Rarely the white on forehead is reduced to a pair of small and indistinct lateral 

 spots, the forehead being mostly black. 



