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CHARADRIUS SEMIPALMATUS 



358a.— Charadrius semipalmatus Bp.— THE SEMI- 

 PALMATED RINGED PLOVER. 



Charadrius semipalmatus Bonaparte, Journ. Acad. Nat.-Sci., 



Philadelphia, V., p. 98 (1825 — North America). 



Charadrius semipalmatvs, Thcmas Paikin, Brit. B., X., p. 254. 



Distribution. — England. — One. Female, Rye (Sussex), 

 April 8th, 1916 {ut supra). 



Distribution. — Abroad. — Breeds in North America from 

 Cumberland Sound and Melville Island to the Upper Yulcon, 

 southern Mackenzie, Keewatin and Gulf of St. Lawrence. 

 Winters from Lower California, Louisiana and south Carolina 

 throughout South America to the Galapagos Islands, Chile 

 and Patagonia. Single sjiecimens are known to have occurred 

 in Bermuda and Greenland and it has been observed on the 

 shores of the Tchukchi Peninsula where it probably nests. 



Authors or the Hand-List. 



