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RanGE.— Eastern Arctic America and Old World. Breeds from 
central Europe and Turkestan to Siberia, Spitzbergen, Iceland, 
Greenland, and Cumberland Sound; winters on shores of the Medi- 
terranean and throughout Africa; accidental in Barbados, Chile, 
India, and Australia. 
[ Hegialitis dabia (Scoporr). Little Ringed Plover. [276.] 
Charadrius (dubius) Scopout, Del. Flore et Faune Insubr., II, 1786, 93. 
(Luzon Island, Philippines.) 
RancGE.— Eastern Hemisphere. Breeds from southern Europe, 
central Asia, and Japan to northern Siberia and Europe; winters 
south to central Africa, India, and the Malay Archipelago; accidental 
in Alaska and California.] 
égialitis meloda (OrD). Piping Plover. [277.] 
Charadrius melodus Orp, Reprint of Witson’s Orn., VII, 1842, 71. 
(Great Egg Harbor, New Jersey.) 
RancE.— Eastern North America. Breeds locally from southern 
Saskatchewan, southern Ontario, Magdalen Islands, and Nova Scotia 
south to central Nebraska, northwestern Indiana, Lake Erie, New 
Jersey (formerly), and Virginia; winters on the coast of the United 
States from Texas to Georgia, and in northern Mexico; casual in 
migration to Newfoundland, the Bahamas, Greater Antilles, and 
Bermuda. 
égialitis nivésa Cassin. Snowy Plover. [278.] 
Aigialitis nivosa Cassin, in Barrp, Rep. Expl. & Surv. R. R. Pac., IX, 
1858, 696. (Presidio, near San Francisco, California.) ‘s 
RancGE.— Western United States to South America. Breeds from 
central California, northern Utah, and southern Kansas south to 
northern Lower California and southern Texas; winters from southern 
California and Texas south along both coasts of Central America, 
and on the west coast to Chile; casual in Oregon, Wyoming, Ontario, 
Louisiana, Florida, Bahamas, Cuba, Venezuela, and Brazil. 
v [Mgialitis méngola (PaLLAs). Mongolian Plover. ([279.] 
Charadrius mongolus Pauuas, Reise Russ. Reichs, III, 1776, 700. (Kul- 
ussutai, probably on the Onon River, Siberia.) 
