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Adult male.— Wing, 123-139 (131.4); tail, 48-55.5 (52.6); culmen, 

 15-17.5 (16.1); tarsus, 28-34 (30.1); middle toe, 17-19 (18.2)." 



Adult ferrmle. —Wing. 126-152.5 (133.6); tail, 49-56 (52); culmen, 

 14.5-18.5 (16.2); tarsus, 28.5-31 (29 4); middle toe, 18-20.5 (18.8).^ 



Breeding in northeastern Siberia and Commander Islands, Kam- 

 chatka; migrating southward through Korea, Japan, China, PhiUp- 

 pine Islands, Malay xirchipelago, etc., to New Guinea and northern 

 Australia; accidental in western Alaska (Choris Peninsula, summer). 



Charadrius mongolus Pallas, Beis. Buss. Beichs, iii, 1776, 700 (Kulussutai, 

 probably on the Ouon Biver, Siberia). — Bonnaterre, Tabl. Enc. Meth., 

 i, 1790, 22.— ViEiLLOT, Nouv. Diet. d'Hlst. Nat., xxvii, 1818, 143.— Blasius, 

 Journ. fiir Orn., 1883, 126 (Celebes).— Heinroth, Journ. fur Orn., 1902, 400 

 (Bismarck Archipelago). — Mathews, Birds Australia, iii, 1913, pi. [135] 

 facing p. 92.— Brooks (W. S.), Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., lix, 1915, 378 (Cop- 

 per Island, Kamchatka, June). 



[Charadrius] mongolus Gmelin, Syst. Nat., i, pt. ii, 1789, 685. — Latham, Index 

 Orn., ii, 1790, 746. 



Hiaticula mongola Gould, Birds Australia, vi, 1846, pi. 19, right-hand fig., and 

 text. — Beichenbach, Vog. Neuholl., 1851, no. 331. — Macgillivray. ^^r-rr. 

 Voy. 'Battlesnake', ii, 1852, 358 (n. e. coast Austro.lia; Torres Straits). 



[Pluviorhynchus] mongolus Bonaparte, Compt. Bend., xliii, 1856, 417. 



Mgialites mongolus Swxnhoe, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1870, 140 (s. China; Hainan; 

 crit.); 1871, 404 (China); Ibis, 1873, 425 (Shanghai, China). 



^gialitis mongolaVJ ALDEi^ , Ibis, 1873, 317 (South Andaman Islandj. — Stejneger, 

 Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., no. 29, 1885, 105-108 (Commander Islands, Kamchatka; 

 synonymy, descr., etc.); Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., x, 1887, 126-128, pi. 7, figs. 

 3-6 (variations in head-markings) ; xxi, 1898, 279 (Kuril Islands).— American 

 Ornithologists' Union, Check List, 1886, and 2d ed., 1895, no. 279; 3rded., 

 1910, 129.— Nelson, Bep. N. H. Coll. Alaska, 1887, 127 (Choris Peninsula, 

 Alaska; descr.). — Taczanowski, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1888, 456 (Chemulpo 

 Korea).— Elliot, N. Am. Shore Birds, 1895, 189, pi. 64.— Allen, Bull. 

 Am. Mus. N. H., xxi, 1905, 241 (Gichiga, n. e. Siberia).— Clark (A. H.), 

 Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., xxxviii, 1910, 155 (Gensan, Korea). 



^[gialitis] mongola Bidgway, Man. N. Am. Birds, 1887, 179. 



Aegialitis mongolus Hartert, Novit. Zool., vii, 1900, 9 (Buk Island, centr. 

 Carolines). 



