ORDER LIMICOI^E. 127 



RANGE. 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 LINN^US, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, I, 1758, 150. Type, by subs, 

 desig., Charadrius pluvialis LINN^JUS = Charadrius apricarius LINNAEUS 

 (Gray, 1840). 



[Chardrius apricarius LINNAEUS. European Golden Plover. [271.] 



Charadrius apricarius LINNAEUS, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, 1, 1758, 150. (Oland 

 Island, Sweden.) 



RANGE. 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 (MULLER). 



RANGE. Nearly cosmopolitan. Breeds in the Arctic regions; 

 in winter south to the southern part of the Southern Hemisphere. 



a. Charadrius dominicus dominicus (MULLER). Golden Plover. [272.] 



Charadrius dominicus MULLER, Natursyst. Suppl., 1776, 116. (Santo 

 Domingo, West Indies.) 



RANGE. 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. 



6. Charadrius dominicus fulvus GMELIN. Pacific Golden Plover. [272a.] 



Charadrius fulvus GMELIN, Syst. Nat., I, ii, 1789, 687. (Tahiti, Society 

 Islands.) 



