1. ARENAKIA. 



103 



h\ ft cf 2 ad. sk. Paracas Bay, Peru, Oct. Salvin-Godman Coll. 

 (A. 11. Murkham). n n _ „ 



*• ft Ad. sk. Chili, Feb. (E. C. Reed). Salvin-Godman „ . 



J. 2 ad. sk. ( l.ili, Feb. (jE. C. Reed). Salvin-Godman Coll. 



»ft cf ad. sk. TaL-ahuano, Chili, Sept. 9. Dr. Coppmger [P. J. 



o 9 Ad.sk. Winter Island. Antarctic Expedi- 



tion. 



«ft Sternum. England. John Kay, Esq. [P.]. 



f, r». Skeletons. Chili. Purchased. 



2. Arenaria rnelanocephala. 

 Strepsilas melanocephalus, Vigors, Zool. Journ. iv. p. 356 (1829) ; 

 J. Voy. • Blossom,' p. 29 (1839); Cass. B.N. Amer. j>.m,&w. 

 (1858) ; CWr £ Buckley, N. E- Wash. Terr. p. 234 (1860) ; 

 Brown] Ms, 1868, p. 424 (Vancouver Isl.) ; D«H ft .»«««. ZVon*. 

 CJlicaoo ^carf. i. p. 2'JO (1869: Alaska, breeding); Coues,Keij 

 X. Am,;: 11. 2nd ed. p. 609 (1884); Baird, Brewer, $ Lidgw. 

 Water-B. X. Amer. i. p. 124 (1884) ; Murdoch, Rep. Exped. Bt. 

 Barrow, p. 109 (1885 : not observed) ; Seeb. Geogr. Distr. Charadr. 



CSnclus melanocephalus, Gray, Gen. B. iii. p. 549 (1846) ; id. Hand-l. 

 B. iii. p. 22, no. 10069 (1871). 



Strepsilas interpres, var. melanocephalus, Owes, Aey iv. .dwr. £>. 



p. 217 (1872) ; id. B. X.- West, p. 459 (1874). 

 Strepsilas interpres melanocephalus, S&reefo, !?«//. U.H.Jyat. XLUS, 



no. 7, p. 17 (1877 : San Geronimo Isl.) ; Coues, Check-l. A. Amer. h. 



ArenSamtkiiocephala, Stejn. Auk, i. p. 229 (1884) ; id. Bull. U.S. 



Nat. Mm. no. 29, p. 102 (1885) ; A. O. U. Check-l. N Amer. B. 



p. L65 (1886); BAdgw. Man. X. Amer. B. p. 181 (188i); Turner, 



Contr. X. H. Alaska, p. 150 (1887 : breeding) ; Nelson, Nat Hist. 



Coll. Alaska, p. 129 (1887: St. Michael's Isl; Lower Yukon ; 



breeding); Townsend, Auk, iv. p. 12 (1887: kowah River, JN. 



Alaska |; Blake, t. c. p. 329 (Santa Cruz Isl.) ; Lawrence, Auk, ix. 



p. 354 (1892). ... 10 ,, QQK v 



Charadrius melanocephalus, Seeb. Hist. Brit. B. m. p. 12 (lb&o). 



Adult male in summer plumage. General colour above blackish 

 brown, with slightly indicated black centres to the feathers; back 

 pure white, with a dark brown patch on the rump; sides of rump 

 and upper tail-coverts pure white : wings dark brown, the greater 

 coverts edged and also broadly tipped with white, forming a broad 

 wing-band; inner primary-coverts also tipped with white ; quills 

 with while ma mins to their ends, and with white shafts, the bases 

 of all the quills -white, which increases on the secondaries while the 

 brown colour diminishes, till the median secondaries are entirely 

 white; the innermost secondaries brown like the back; tail- 

 feathers brown, narrowly edged with white at the tip and with a 

 broad white base ; crown of head, sides of face, throat, and upper 

 breast dark brown, many of the leathers of the sides of the neck, 

 foro-neck, and ear-coverts spotted with white, imparting a Bfcre 

 appearance; the feathers of the upper breast adjoining the brown 

 fore-neck being white with centres of brown, or horse-shoo marks 

 of the Bame colour ; frontal plumes also spotted with white ; a mark 



