242 CHAEADEIID^:. 



n. Ad. sk. Fort Bridger, Utah. Salvin-Godman Coll. 



o, p, q. Imm. sk. Pueblo, Colorado, July (H. Salvin-Godinan Coll. 



W. H). 

 r-z. $ ad. ; «'-/'. Colorado Springs, Colorado, Salvin-Godman Coll. 

 2 ad. ; g'-s'. June (H. W. Henshaiv). 



Pull. sk. 

 t'. Pull. sk. Algodones, New Mexico, June Salvin-Godman Coll. 



(H. W. H.). 

 «'. Ad. sk. Mizpah Creek {Dr. F. B. Salvin-Godman Coll. 



Hay den). 

 v'-z'. £ $ juv. sk. San Francisco, Oct. Salvin-Godman Coll. 



a". Juv. sk. Fort Tejon, Cal. (C. B. Mol- Salvin-Godman Coll. 



hausen). 

 b". 3 juv. sk. La Paz, Lower California, Salvin-Godman Coll. 



Dec. 26 (A. Forrer). 

 c", d". cJ ad. sk. Hermosillo, Sonora, Dec. Salvin-Godman Coll. 



(Ferrari- Perez) . 

 e" >/",</"• 6 2 ad - Zacatecas, Feb. (W. B. Salvin-Godman Coll. 

 sk. Richardsoit). 



30. OXYECHUS. 



Type. 



Oxyechus, Reichenb. Av. Syst. A at. p. xviii (1852) .... O. vociferus. 



Range. North America generally, migrating into South America. 

 Africa. 



Key to the Species. 



a. Rump and upper tail-coverts cinnamon vociferus, p. 242. 



b. No cinnamon colour on the rump and upper tail- 



coverts. 

 a'. One dark band on the inner web of the outer 

 tail-feather. 

 a". Forehead entirely white, not continuous 



with the eyebrow tricollaris, p. 247. 



b". Base of forehead grey, like the throat, fol- 

 lowed by a white band, which is con- 

 tinuous with the white eyebrow bifrontatus, p. 249. 



b'. Three dark bands on the inner web of the 

 outer tail-feather ; forehead entirely grey, 

 like the throat forbesi, p. 250. 



1. Oxyechus vociferus. 



The Chattering Plover, Catesby, Nat. Hist. Carol, i. p. 71, pi. 71 



(1730). 

 Le Pluvier a, collier de Virginie, Briss. Orn. v. p. 68 (1760). 

 Le Pluvier a. collier de S. Domingue, Briss. Orn. v. p. 70, pi. vi. 



fig. 2 (1760). 

 ?Le Pluvier a, collier de Jamaique, Briss. Orn. v. p. 75 (1760). 

 Charadrius vociferus, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. p. 253 (1766) ; Gm. Syst. 



Nat. i. p. 685 (1788) ; Lath. hid. Orn. ii. p. 742 (1790) ; Wilson, 



Amer. Orn. vii. p. 73, pi. 59. fig. 6 (1813) ; Audub. B. Amer. 



pi. cexv. (c. 1826) ; id. Orn. Biogr. iii. p. 191 (1835) ; Jard. ed. 

 Wilson's Amer. Orn. ii. p. 365, pi. lix. fig. 6 (1832) ; Audub. Orn. 



Biogr. v. p. 577 (1839) ; id. B. Amer. 8vo, v. p. 207, pi. 317 



