126 CHECK-LIST OF NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 



Kenai Peninsula; also on Laysan and Phoenix islands; winters on 

 islands of the South Pacific from Hawaii to New Caledonia. 



FAMILY GHARADRIIDJE. PLOVERS. 



GENUS VANELLUS BRISSON. 



Vanellus BRISSON, Orn., V, 1760, 94. Type, by tautonymy, Tringa 

 vanettus LINNAEUS. 



VanSllus vangllus (LINNAEUS). Lapwing. [269.] 



Tringa vanettus LINNAEUS, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, I, 1758, 148. (Sweden.) 



RANGE. Eastern Hemisphere. Breeds from the Arctic Circle 

 south to central Europe and China; winters south to northern Africa 

 and India; casual in Greenland, Newfoundland, Nova Scotia, Long 

 Island, New York, the Bahamas, and Barbados. 



[GENUS EUDROMIAS BREHM. 



Eudromias C. L. BREHM, Isis, XXIII, 1830, 987. Type, by monotypy, 

 Charadrius morinettus LINNAEUS. 



Eudrdmias morinellus (LINNAEUS). Dotterel. [269.1.] 



Charadrius morinettus LINNAEUS, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, I, 1758, 150. 

 (Sweden.) 



RANGE. Eastern Hemisphere. Breeds in the Alps, Great Britain, 

 Scandinavia, and Siberia; winters in southern Europe and northern 

 Africa; accidental on King Island, Alaska, and in Japan.] 



GENUS SQUATAROLA CUVIER. 



Squatarola CUVIER, Regne Animal, I, 1817, 467. Type, by tautonymy, 

 Tringa squatarola LINN^US. 



Squatarola squatarola (LiNN^us). Black-bellied Plover. [270.] 



Tringa squatarola LINN^SUS, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, I, 1758, 149. (Sweden.) 



