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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. 



[-fflgialitis dubia (SCOPOLI). Little Ringed Plover. [276.] 



Charadrius (dubius) SCOPOLI, Del. Florae et Faunae Insubr., II, 1786, 93. 

 (Luzon Island, Philippines.) 



RANGE. 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.] 



-fflgialitis meloda (ORD). Piping Plover. [277.] 



Charadrius melodus ORD, Reprint of WILSON'S Orn., VII, 1842, 71. 

 (Great Egg Harbor, New Jersey.) 



RANGE. 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. 



JEgialitis nivosa CASSIN. Snowy Plover. [278.] 



sEgialitis nivosa CASSIN, in BAIRD, Rep. Expl. & Surv. R. R. Pac., IX, 

 1858, 696. (Presidio, near San Francisco, California.) 



RANGE. 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. 



[.fflgialitis mongola (PALLAS). Mongolian Plover. [279.] 



Charadrius mongolus PALLAS, Reise Russ. Reichs, III, 1776, 700. (Kul- 

 ussutai, probably on the Onon River, Siberia.) 



