128 CHECK-LIST OF NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 
RanGeE.— Eastern Asia and Alaska to New Zealand. Breeds in northern 
Siberia from Liakof Island to Bering Strait, and in Alaska along the coast of 
Bering Sea; winters in the Hawaiian Islands, China, Oceanica, New Zealand, 
and Australia. 
GENUS OXYECHUS REICHENBACH. 
Oxyechus REICHENBACH, Syst. Avium, 1852, xviii. Type, by orig. desig., 
Charadrius vociferus LINN&US. 
Oxyéchus vociferus (LINN&us). Killdeer. [273.] 
Charadrius vociferus LINN2US, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, I, 1758, 150. (Virginia 
and Carolina.) 
Rance.— North and South America. Breeds from central British 
Columbia, southern Mackenzie, central Keewatin, and central Quebec 
south to the Gulf coast and central Mexico; winters from California, 
Arizona, Texas, Indiana, New Jersey, and Bermuda south to Vene- 
zuela and Peru; casual in Newfoundland, Paraguay, and Chile; acci- 
dental in Great Britain. 
GENUS ASGIALITIS Bole. 
4igialitis Born, Isis, X, 1822, 558. Type, by subs. desig., Charadrius 
hiaticula Linnaus (Gray, 1855). 
égialitis semipalmata (BoNaPARTE). Semipalmated Plover. [274.] 
Charadrius semipalmatus BoNAPARTE, Journ. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 
V, 1825, 98. (Coast of New Jersey.) 
RanceE.— North and South America. Breeds from Melville Island, 
Wellington Channel, and Cumberland Sound to the valley of the 
Upper Yukon, southern Mackenzie, southern Keewatin, and Gulf of 
St. Lawrence; winters from southern Lower California, Louisiana, 
and South Carolina to Patagonia, Chile, and the Galapagos; casual 
in Siberia, Greenland, and Bermuda. 
V ARgialitis hiaticula (LINN*us). Ringed Plover. [275.] 
Charadrius hiaticula Linnus, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, I, 1758, 150. (Sweden.) 
