100 CHECK-LIST OF NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 



272 a. Charadrius dominicus fulvus (GMEL.). 



Pacific Golden Plover. 



Charadrius fulvus GMEL. S. N. I. ii. 1788, 687. 

 Charadrius dominicus fulvus RIDGW. Pr. U. S. Nat. Mus. III. 

 1880, 198. 



[B , C , R 515*, 0582.] 



GEOG. DIST. Breeding from northern Asia to the Pribilof Islands 

 and coast of Alaska, south in winter through China and India to 

 Australia and Polynesia. 



GENUS -SiGrlALITIS BOIE. 

 SUBGENUS OXYBCHUS REICHENBACH. 



Oxyechus REICH. Syst. Av. 1853, p. xviii. Type, Charadrius 

 vociferus LINN. 



273. JEgialitis vocifera (LINN.). 



Killdeer. 



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

 sEgialites vociferus BONAP. Geog. & Comp. List, 1838, 45. 



[B 504, C 397, R 516, C 584.] 



GEOG. DIST. Temperate North America, breeding north to New- 

 foundland and Manitoba, migrating to the West Indies, and Central 

 and northern South America. Bermuda. 



SUBGENUS -EJGIALITIS BOIE. 



SEgialitis BOIE, Isis, 1822, 558. Type, by elimination, Chara- 

 drius hiaticula LINN. 



274. JBgialitis semipalmata BONAP. 



Seinipal mated Plover. 



Charadrius semipalmatus BONAP. Journ. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. 



V. 1825, 98. 

 ^Egialites semipalmatus BONAP. Geog. & Comp. List, 1838, 45. 



