102 CHECK-LIST OF NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 



278. JBgialitis nivosa CASS. 

 Snowy Plover. 



sEgialitis nivosa CASS. in BAIRD, B. N. Am. 1858, 696. 



[B 509, C 401, R 521, C 591.] 



GEOG. DIST. Western United States, from California east to 

 Kansas and western Gulf States ; in winter, both coasts of Central 

 America, and western South America to Chili. Western Cuba. 



[279.] ^Bgialitis mongola (PALL.). 



Mongolian Plover. 



Charadrius mongolus PALL. Reise Russ. Reich. III. 1776, 700. 

 sEgialites mongolus SWINH. P. Z. S. 1870, 140. 



[B C R C .] 



GEOG. DIST. Northern Asia, south in winter to India, Malay 

 Archipelago, Philippines, and Australia. Choris Peninsula, Alaska ; 

 accidental. 



SUBGENUS OCHTHODROMUS REICHENBACH. 



Ochthodromus REICH. Syst. Av. 1852, p. xviii. Type, Chara- 

 drius wilsonius ORD. 



280. -SJgialitis wilsonia (ORD). 



Wilson's Plover. 



Charadrius wilsonia ORD, WILS. Orn. IX. 1814, 77, pi. 73, fig. 5. 

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



[B 506, C 398, R 522, C 585.] 



GEOG. DIST. Coasts of North and South America, from Long 

 Island and Lower California southward to Brazil and Peru, including 

 the West Indies. Casual north to Nova Scotia. 



SUBGENUS PODASOCYS COUES. 



Podasocys COUES, Pr. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1866, 96. Type, 

 Charadrius montanus TOWNS. 



