252 CHAEADEIIDiE. 



Isl.) ; Feilden, t. c. p. 491 (Barbados) ; Cory, B. West Indies, 

 p. 229 (1889) ; id. Auk, vi. p. 32 (1889 : Cayman Brae) ; Bishop, 

 t. c. p. 147 (Magdalen Isl.) ; Scott, t. c. p. 159 (Gulf Coast of 

 Florida); Bide/ ilk Proc U.S. Nat. Mus. xii. pp. 120, 123, 127 

 (1889 : Indefatigable Isl.), p. 138 (Abrolhos Isl.) ; Palmer, Proc. 

 U.S. Nat. Mus. xiii. p. 260 (1890 : Mingan Isl.) ; Thomps. t. c. 

 p. 507 (Manitoba) ; Scott, Auk, vii. p. 309 (1890 : Dry Tortugas) ; 

 Clarke, t. c. p. 321 (Hudson's Bay) ; Cory, t. c. p. 374 (Anegada) ; 

 id. B. Bahamas, p. 148 (1890) ; Macfarl. Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. 

 xiv. p. 430 (1891 : Anderson River, breeding) ; Cory, Auk, viii. 

 p. 48 (1891 : Guadeloupe) ; Allen, t. c. p. 165 (Bras d'Or region); 

 Gundl. t.c. p. 190 (Cuba); Cory, t.c. p. 298 (Abaco), p. 351 

 (Inagua) ; Berl. $ Stolz. P. Z. S. 1892, p. 305 (Ancon, Peru) ; 

 Cory, Cat. B. West Indies, p. 95 (1892 : Bahamas ; Greater and 

 Lesser Antilles) ; Scott, Auk, ix. p. 15 (1892 : Jamaica), p. 212 

 (Florida) ; Laior. t. c. p. 354 (Gray's Harbour, Washington Terr.) ; 

 Hasbrouck, Auk, x. p. 92 (1893 : Distr. Columbia). 



Charadrius brevirostris, Neuioied, Beitr. Naturg. Bras. iv. p. 769 

 (1833) ; Tschudi fy Cab. Faun. Peruan., Aves, pp. 49, 296 (1845- 

 46) ; Cab. in Schomb. Beis. Guian. iii. p. 750 (1848) ; Burm. Th. 

 Bras. iii. p. 359 (1856 : Central Brazil, especially on the coast). 



Hiaticula semipalmata, Gould in Danvin's Voy. 'Beagle,' Birds, 

 p. 128 (1841: Galapagos); Gray, List Grail. Brit. Mus. p. 70 

 (1844 : Rio de Janeiro) ; id. Gen. B. iii. p. 544 (1847). 



iEgialeus semipalmatus, Reichenb. Av. Syst. Nat. p. xviii (1852) 

 Bp. C. R. xlii. p. 417 (1856) ; Gundl. J. f. O. 1875, p. 335 ; Heine 

 8f Reichen. Nomencl. Mus. Hein. p. 336 (1890 : Labrador). 



Charadrius hiaticula, var. semipalmatus, Ridgw. Ann. Lye. N. Y. x. 

 p. 383 (1874 : Illinois). 



Adult male. General colour above pale brown ; wing-coverts like 

 the back, the greater series tipped with white, forming a wing-bar ; 

 bastard-wing, primary-coverts, and quills brown, the primaries 

 blackish along the outer web and round the tip ; the shafts white, 

 the white increasing on the inner primaries and occupying the basal 

 part of the outer web ; the inner webs of the primaries whitish 

 from the base upwards ; the secondaries narrowly fringed with 

 white at the ends, the inner ones white externally, but none 

 entirely white, the innermost secondaries brown like the back : 

 tail-feathers light brown, tipped with white, with a sub-terminal 

 bar of black ; the penultimate feather white at the tip and on the 

 outer web, and the external feather entirely white ; crown of head 

 and nape light brown ; across the forehead a broad band of white ; 

 a line of black across the base of the forehead joining the lores and 

 the black coronal band ; the feathers below the eye and ear-coverts 

 black, with a small white line above the latter ; a small white spot 

 below the eye ; cheeks and throat white, as well as the sides of 

 neck and a collar round the latter, followed by a narrow black 

 collar across the upper mantle and joining a broad collar across the 

 fore-neck, which widens out into a patch on the sides of the 

 chest ; remainder of under surface of body, including the under 

 wing-coverts and axillaries, pure white ; edge of wing mottled 

 with ashy-brown bases to the feathers ; lower primary-coverts and 

 quill-lining light ashy brown : " bill black, the basal half rich 



