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Charadrius drrhipedesmiLS Gbay, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1860, 363 (East Gilolo). 



C[haradrius] cirrhipedesmus Gray, Gen. Birds, iii, 1847, 544. 



Ch[aradrius] gularis Wagler, Syst. Av., 1827, Charadrius, sp. 40 (new name for 



C. mongolus Pallas). 

 Charadrius sanguineus Lesson, Man. d'Orn., ii, 1828, 330 (no locality); Traite 



d'Orn., 1831, 544. 

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



text (Torres Strait, Australia). — Reichenbach, Vog. Neuholl., 1851, no. 



331. — Macgillivray, Narr. Voy. "Rattlesnake," ii, 1852, 358 (n. e. coast 



Australia; Torres Straits). 

 Aegialitis inornata Reichenbach, Grallatores, Novit., 1851, pi. 298, figs. 2426- 



2427. 

 JEgialitis inornata Ramsay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. W., i, 1877, 375. — Forbes 



Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1878, 127 (Wednesday Island, Torres Straits); Voy 



"Challenger," ii. Birds, 1881, 92. 

 Charadrius inornatus Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1858, 187, 197 (Aru Islands) 



1861, 438 (Aru Islands); Cat. Mam. and Bii-ds New Guinea, 1859, 62.— Rosen 



BERG, Nat. Tijdschr. Nederl. Ind., xxv, 1863, 253; Journ. fiir Orn., 1864, 135 



Malay Archipel., 1878-79, 563.— Finsch, Neu-Guinea, 1865, 181. 

 Ochthodromus inornatus Gould, Handb. Birds Australia, ii, 1865, 237. 

 jEgialitis mastersi Ramsay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. W., i, 1876, 135 (Rockingham 



Bay to Cape York, Queensland); ii, 1878, 107; Tab. List. Austral. Birds, 1888, 



19 (Gulf of Carpentaria; Rockingham Bay). — Legge, Proc. Austral. Assoc. 



Ad vane. Sci., 1892, 38. 

 JEgialitis ruficapillal (not Charadrius ruficapillus Temminck) Blakiston and 



Pryer, Ibis, 1878, 219 (Yokohama, Japan; see Seebohm, Ibis, 1879, 25). 

 Mgialitis ruficapilla Seebohm, Ibis, 1879, 25 (Hakodate and s. Yezo, Japan; crit.). 

 Charadrius pyrrhothorax (not of Temminck) Fritsch, Vog. Eur., 1870, pi. 33, fig. 



18. — Rosenberg, Malay Archipel., 1878-79, 373 (Aru Islands). 



CHARADRIUS NIVOSUS NIVOSUS (Cassin). 



SNOWY PLOVER. 



Adult male in summer. — Forehead, superciliary region, whole of loral 

 region, suborbital and malar regions and under parts immaculate 

 white, the sides of chest with a transverse patch of black; fore part 

 of crown and upper portion of auricular region black ; rest of upper 

 parts light brownish gray or grayish brown, the crown and occiput 

 often varying to light buff; proximal secondaries mostly white; 

 primaries dusky with white shafts, the proximal quills with much 

 white on outer webs; two outer rectrices (on each side) white, the 

 rest growing gradually darker to the middle pair, which are grayish 

 brown, darker distally; bill and naked eye-ring black; interior of 

 mouth fleshy white (in life) ; iris dark brown ; legs and feet slate color 

 or slate-grayish (in life). 



Adult female in summer. — Similar to the male and not always dis- 

 tinguishable, but usually with black of head-markings and on sides of 

 chest much duller, sometimes dusky grayish brown. 



Winter plumage. — Similar to the adult female, but black or dusky 

 of head-markings and patch on side of chest replaced by brownish 

 gray or grayish brown. 



