104 CHECK-LIST OF NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 
[B 515, C 406, R 509, C 598.] 
Geroc. Dist.— Nearly cosmopolitan. In America from Greenland 
and Alaska to the Straits of Magellan ; more or less common in the 
interior of North America, on the shores of the Great Lakes and the 
larger rivers. Breeds in high northern latitudes. 
284. Arenaria melanocephala (ViGc.). 
Black Turnstone. 
Strepsilas melanocephalus Vic. Zool. Jour. 1V. Jan. 1829, 356. 
Arenaria melanocephala Steyn. Auk, f. July, 1834, 229. 
[B 516, C 406a, R 510, C 599. | 
Geroc. Dist.— Pacific coast of North America, from Point Barrow, 
Alaska, to Santa Margarita Island, Lower California ; breeding from 
Alaska south to British Columbia. Accidental in India. 
FamMity HZABMATOPODIDA. OvystTeR—CATCHERS. 
Genus HASMATOPUS Linneus. 
Hematopus Linn. 8. N. ed. 10, I. 1758, 152. Type, &. ostrale- 
gus LINN. 
[285.] Hzematopus ostralegus LInn. 
Oyster-catcher. 
fematopus ostralegus LINN. S. N. ed. 10, I. 1758, 152. 
[B—, C—, R 506, C 595.] 
Geroc. Dist.— Sea-coasts of Europe and part of Asia and Africa; 
occasional in Greenland. 
286. Hzematopus palliatus Trem. 
American Oyster-catcher. 
Hematopus palliatus VemM. Man. II. 1820, 532. 
[BG r2, (C404, 0R 507 aC Rob.| 
Geroc. Dist.— Sea-coasts of temperate and tropical America, from 
New Jersey and western Mexico to Patagonia; occasional or acci- 
dental on the Atlantic coast north to Massachusetts and Grand 
Menan. 
