ORDER LIMICOL^. IO3 



281. JEgialitis montana (Towns.). 



Mountain Plover. 



Charadrius montanus Towns. Jour. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila. VII. 



1837, 192. 

 yEgialitis montanus Cass, in Baird, B. N. Am. 1858, 693. 

 [B 505, C 402, R 523, C 592.] 

 Geog. Dist. — Chiefly the Plains, from central Kansas to the 

 Rocky Mountains, north to the British boundary, breeding from 

 Kansas northward ; westward, especially in winter, to central and 

 southern California, and south to Lower California and San Luis 

 Potosi, Mexico. Accidental in Florida. 



Family AFHRIZIDiE. Surf Birds and Turnstones. 

 Subfamily APHRIZIN.aJ. Surf Birds. 



Genus AFHRIZA Audubon. 



Aphriza Aud. Orn. Biog. V. 1839, 249. Type, A. townsendi Avd. 

 == Tringa virgata Gmel. 



282. Aphriza virgata (Gmel.). 



Surf Bird. 



Tringa virgata Gmel. S. N. I. ii. 1788, 674. 

 Aphriza virgata Gray, Gen. B. III. 1847, pl- cxlvii. 

 [B 511, C 403, R 511, C 594.] 

 Geog. Dist. — Pacific coast of America, from Alaska to Chili. 



Subfamily ARENARIIN.Sj. Turnstones. 



Genus ARENARIA Brisson. 

 Arenaria Briss. Orn. V. 1760, 132. Type, Trifiga interpres lumn . 



283. Arenaria interpres (Linn.). 



Turnstone. 



Tringa interpres Linn. S. N. ed. 10, L 1758, 148. 

 Arenaria interpres Nyeaia.. Nouv. Diet. d'Hist. Nat. XXIV, 18 19, 

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