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Charadrius cantianus nivosus Seebohm, Geog. Distr. Charadriidae, 1887, pp. xviii, 



171, fig. of head. 

 JEgialitis alexandrinus nivosus Stejneger, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., v, June 5, 



1882, 35. 



Mgialites alexandrinus nivosus Ridgway, Cat. Aquat. and Fish-eating birds, 



1883, 9.— Belding, Pror. U. S. Nat. Mus., v, 1883, 528 (San Quentin Bay, 

 Lower California; breeding?). 



Charadrius cantianus (not of Latham, 1790) IIeermann, Rep. Pacific R. R. Surv., 

 X, pt. iv, no. 2, 1859, 64 (San Diego, California, Jan.; descr.; crit.). — Schlegel, 

 Mus. Pays-Bas, iv, no.29(Cursores), 1865, 31, part. 



^[gialitis] cantiana Coues, Key N. Am. Birds, 1872, 245. 



Mgialitis cantianus Coues, Check List, 1873, no. 401. 



(?) Charadrius alexandrinus (not of Linnaeus?) Schalow, Joiu'n. fiir Orn., 1891, 

 259 (Kadiak, Alaska). 



CHARADRIUS NIVOSUS TENUIROSTRIS (Lawrence). 



CUBAN SNOWY PLOVER. 



Similar to 0. n. nivosus but much paler, the general color of upper 

 parts pale drab-gray (sometimes approaching grayish white in mid- 

 summer plumage), the feathers darker centrally. 



Adult maZ^.— Wing, 99-107 (103.5); tail, 37-49 (44.8); culmen, 

 13-15.5 (14.6); tarsus, 22.5-25 (23.9) ; middle toe, 14-15 (14.4).« 



Adult female.— Wing, 98-104 (102); tail, 41-47 (44.2); culmen, 

 .14-15 (14.3); tarsus, 23-23.5 (23.2); middle toe, 13.5-14 (13.8).^ 



Gulf coast of Ignited States, in Florida (Santa Rosa Island, near 

 Fort Pickens, breeding; Perdido Bay, Jan.), Alabama (Dauphine 

 Island, Feb., May, Aug.; Orange Beach, Jan.; Petit Bois, Aug.), 

 Mississippi (Horn Island, Jul}^ 3), Louisiana, and Texas (Corpus 

 Christi), and southward to Bahamas, Cuba (Guantanamo), Yucatan 

 (Celestin), Venezuela (Margarita Island), and coast of Brazil and 

 Paraguay; also breeding on Salt plains of Cimarron River, Oklahoma 

 and Comanche County, Kansas, and occasiontil near Toronto, 

 Ontario (May, 1880, and July 6, 1897; three records) .'^ 



Aegialitis tenuirostris Lawrence, Ann. Lye. Nat. Hist. N. Y., vii, 1862, 455 (near 

 Guantanamo, Cuba; coll. J. Gundlach). — Gundlach, Journ. fiir Orn., 1862, 

 181 (Guantanamo, Cuba; crit.). 



Aegialeus tenuirostris Gundlach, Report. Fisico-Xat. Cuba, i, 1866, 359; Journ. 

 fur Orn., 1871, 294 (Cuba); 1875, 336 (Cuba). 



Mgialitis nivosa American Ornithologists' Union, Check List, 1886, and 2d 

 ed., 1895, no. 278, part (Caribbean coast Central America; w. Cuba); 3rd 

 ed., 1910, 129, part (Louisiana; Florida; Bahamas; Cuba; Venezuela; 

 Brazil).— (?) Goss, Auk, iii, 1886, 409 (salt plains of Cimarron River, Okla- 

 homa and Comanche Co., Kansas, breeding). — Cory, Auk, iv, 1887, 229 

 (West Indian localities and references); Birds West Ind., 1889, 229; Cat. 

 West Ind. Birds, 1892, 95.— Sennett, Auk, v, 1888, 110, in text (Corpus 

 Christi, Texas, breeding). — Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xxiv, 1896, 290, 



« Seven specimens. 

 ^ Three specimens, 

 c Specimens not seen, but more likely to be this form than C. n. nivosus. 



