160 CHECK-LIST OF NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 



FAMILY CHARADRIID.ZE. PLOVERS. 



GENUS VANELLUS BRISSON. 



Vanellus BRISS. Orn. V. 1760, 94. Type, Tringa vanellus LINN. 

 [269.] Vanellus vanellus (LINN.). 



Lapwing. 



Tringa vanellus LINN. S. N. ed. 10, I. 1758, 148. 

 Vanellus vanellus LIGHT. Norn. Mus. Berol. 1854, 95. 



[B-C-R 512,0593.] 



HAS. Northern parts of Eastern Hemisphere. In North America, 

 occasional in Greenland and the islands in Norton Sound, Alaska. 



GENUS CHARADRIUS 



SUBGENUS SQUATAROLA CUVIER. 



Squatarola Cuv. Reg. An. I. 1817,467. Type, Tringa squatarola 

 LINN. 



270. Charadrius squatarola (LINN.). 



Black-bellied Plover. 



Tringa squatarola LINN. S. N. ed. 10, I. 1758, 149. 

 Charadrius squatarola NAUM. Vog. Deutschl. VII. 1834, 250. 



[B 510, C 395 , R 5I3> C 580.] 



HAB. Nearly cosmopolitan, but chiefly in the Northern Hemi- 

 sphere, breeding far north, and migrating south in winter ; in America, 

 to the West Indies, Brazil, and New Grenada. 



SUBGENUS CHARADRIUS LINN/EUS. 



Charadrius LINN. S. N. ed. 10, I. 1758, 150. Type, C. apricarius 

 LINN. 



[271.] Charadrius apricarius LINN. 



Golden Plover. 



Charadrius apricarius LINN. S. N. ed. 10, I. 1758, 150. 



