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southwards to central Mexico. It winters from California,, 

 New Jersey, and the Bermudas southwards to Venezuela and 

 Peru, and has occurred in Chile and Paraguay. 



^Sgialitis asiatica. CASPIAN PLOVER. 



Charadrius asiaticus Pallas, Reise Russ. Reichs, ii. 

 1773, p. 715 : IS. Tartary. 



Ochthodromus asiaticus (Pall.) ; SJiarpe, Cat. Birds B. M. xxiv. 



1896, p. 230. 

 ^gialitis asiatica Sannders, Manual, 2nd ed. 1899, p. 537. 



Asiaticus = Asiatic. 



Distribution in the British Islands. A Rare Visitor. A 

 male was obtained and another seen in Norfolk, May 1890. 

 Two were obtained in Sussex, July 1911. 



General Distribution. The Caspian Plover breeds from the 

 mouth of the Volga and the shores of the Caspian sea, east- 

 wards across the Kirghiz Steppes to the Altai Mountains, 

 and through the salt lakes of Turkestan, southwards to the 

 Amu Daria. It winters in Africa and has occurred in 

 the Konkan, western India ; also in Italy and Heligoland. 



Genus EUDROMIAS C. L. Brehm, Handb. Nat. Vog. 

 Deutschl. 1831, p. 544. 



Type : E. morinellus (Linn.). 



Eudromias = evSponias, good runner; from ev and cpo/ins. 



Eudromias morinellus. DOTTEREL. 



Charadrius morinellus Linnwus, Syst. Nat. 1758, p. 150 : 

 Sweden. 



Eudromias morinellus (Linn.) ; B. O. 17. List, 1st ed. 1883, p. 160 ; 



Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. xxiv. 1896, p. 234; Saunders, 



Manual, 2nd ed. 1899, p. 535. 



Morinellus, diminutive of morus jucopos, a simpleton. Cf. Dotterel 

 a little dolt. 



