132 CHECK-LIST OF NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 
Rance.— North and South America. Breeds on Arctic shores from 
Mackenzie River east, probably to Melville Peninsula, and north to Melville 
Island; winters from central California, Texas, Louisiana, and South Caro- 
lina to southern Brazil and central Chile. 
Arenaria melanocéphala (Vicors). Black Turnstone. ([284.] 
Strepsilas melanocephalus Vicors, Zool. Journ., IV, Jan., 1829, 356. 
(Northwest coast of North America.) 
Rance.— Pacific coast of North America. Breeds from Kotzebue 
Sound south to valley of Lower Yukon; winters from British Columbia 
south to Santa Margarita Island, Lower California; casual north to 
Point Barrow, Alaska, and to northeastern Siberia; accidental in India. 
FamMity HASMATOPODIDA. OvysTER-CATCHERS. 
GENUS HAXMATOPUS Linn ws. 
Hematopus Linnamus, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, I, 1758, 152. Type, by mon- 
otypy, Hematopus ostralegus LINN&US. 
[Hematopus ostralegus LINN&us. European Oyster-catcher. [285.] 
Hematopus ostralegus LINN&US, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, I, 1758, 152. (“Olan- 
die & Gotlandiz.’’) 
RancGE.— Europe, Africa, and India. Breeds from the Arctic Circle 
to the coasts of Europe, the Black Sea, and Turkestan; winters 
southward to the coasts of central Africa and India; occasional in 
Greenland.] 
Hematopus palliatus TrEmMMINCK. Oyster-catcher. [286.] 
Hematopus palliatus TemMMiIncK, Manuel d’Orn., ed. 2, II, 1820, 532. 
(South America.) 
RanGE.— Coasts of North and South America from Texas, Louis- 
iana, and Virginia (formerly New Jersey) south on both coasts of 
Mexico to the West Indies, southern Brazil, and central Chile; cas- 
ual north to New Brunswick. Breeds probably throughout its 
range. 
