ORDER LIMICOIwE. 103 



281. JBgialitis montana (TOWNS.). 



Mountain Plover. 



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



1837, !9 2 - 

 ^Egialitis 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 APHRIZID-ffi. SURF BIRDS AND TURNSTONES. 

 SUBFAMILY APHRIZINJB. SURF BIRDS. 



GENUS APHRIZA AUDUBON. 



Aphriza AUD. Orn. Biog. V. 1839, 2 49- Type, A. townsendi AUD. 

 = 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, pi. cxlvii. 



GEOG. DIST. Pacific coast of America, from Alaska to Chili. 

 SUBFAMILY ARENARIINJE. TURNSTONES. 



GENUS ARENARIA BRISSON. 



Arenaria BRISS. Orn. V. 1760, 132. Type, Tringa interpret LINN. 

 283. Arenaria interpres (LINN.). 



Turnstone. 



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

 Arenaria interpres VIEILL. Nouv. Diet. d'Hist. Nat. XXIV, 1819, 

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