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RancE.— Nearly cosmopolitan. Breeds on the Arctic coast from 
Point Barrow to Boothia and Melville peninsulas, and also on the 
Arctic coast of Russia and Siberia; winters from the Mediterranean 
to South Africa, in India and Australia, and from California, Louisi- 
ana, and North Carolina to Brazil and Peru; in migration occurs 
throughout the United States and in Greenland and Bermuda; acci- 
dental in Hawaii. 
GENUS CHARADRIUS LINN us. 
Charadrius Linnxus, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, I, 1758, 150. Type, by subs. 
desig., Charadrius pluvialis LINN=US = Charadrius apricarius LINN2ZUS 
(Gray, 1840). 
[Charadrius apricdrius LINN&us. European Golden Plover. ([271.] 
Charadrius apricarius LINN2ZUS, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, I, 1758, 150. (Oland 
Island, Sweden.) 
Rance.— Northern part of the Old World. Breeds from Great 
Britain and central Europe to Iceland, Norway, and northwestern 
Siberia; winters south to northern Africa and southern Asia; casual 
in Greenland.] 
Charadrius dominicus (MitLLERr). 
RancEe.— Nearly cosmopolitan. Breeds in the Arctic regions; 
in winter south to the southern part of the Southern Hemisphere. 
a. Charadrius dominicus dominicus (MLLER). Golden Plover. [272.] 
Charadrius dominicus MULLER, Natursyst. Suppl., 1776, 116. (Santo 
Domingo, West Indies.) 
Rance.— North and South America. Breeds from Kotzebue Sound along 
the Arctic coast to mouth of the Mackenzie, and from Melville Island, Welling- 
ton Channel, and Melville Peninsula south to northwestern Hudson Bay; 
winters on the pampas of Brazil and Argentina; migrates south across the 
Atlantic from Nova Scotia and New Brunswick; a few pass south through the 
Mississippi Valley, and all migrate north by this route; in migration to Cali- 
fornia, Greenland, and Bermuda; formerly abundant, now becoming rare. 
b. Charadrius dominicus falvus Gmeuin. Pacific Golden Plover. (272a.] 
Charadrius fulvus GMELIN, Syst. Nat., I, ii, 1789, 687. (Tahiti, Society 
Islands.) 
