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RANGE. 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 vodferus LINN^US. 



Oxyechus vociferus (LINNAEUS). Killdeer. [273.] 



Charadrius vociferus LINNAEUS, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, 1, 1758, 150. (Virginia 

 and Carolina.) 



RANGE. 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 ^EGIALITIS BOIE. 



BOIE, Isis, X, 1822, 558. Type, by subs, desig., Charadrius 

 hiaticula LINN^US (Gray, 1855). 



^Egialitis semipalmata (BONAPARTE). Semipalmated Plover. [274.] 



Charadrius semipalmatus BONAPARTE, Journ. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 

 V, 1825, 98. (Coast of New Jersey.) 



RANGE. 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. 



-fflgialitis hiaticula (LiNN^us). Ringed Plover. [275.] 



Charadrius hiaticula LINN^US, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, 1, 1758, 150. (Sweden.) 



