104 CHECK-LIST OF NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 



[B 5 1 5, C 406, R 509, C 598.] 



GEOG. DIST. Nearly cosmopolitan. In America from Greenland 

 and Alaska to the Straits of Magellan ; more or less common in the 

 interior of North America, on the shores of the Great Lakes and the 

 larger rivers. Breeds in high northern latitudes. 



284. Arenaria melanocephala (Vic.). 



Black Turnstone. 



Strepsilas melanocephalus VIG. Zool. Jour. IV. Jan. 1829, 356. 

 Arenaria melanocephala STEJN. Auk, I. July, 1884, 229. 



[B 516, C 4060, R 510, C 599.] 



GEOG. DIST. Pacific coast of North America, from Point Barrow, 

 Alaska, to Santa Margarita Island, Lower California ; breeding from 

 Alaska south to British Columbia. Accidental in India. 



FAMILY H-SJMATOPODID.ffi. OYSTER-CATCHERS. 



GENUS HJEMATOPUS LINNAEUS. 



Hamatopus LINN. S. N. ed. 10, I. 1758, 152. Type, H. ostrale- 

 gus LINN. 



[285.] Hsematopus ostralegus LINN. 



Oyster-catch er. 



Hamatopus ostralegus LINN. S. N. ed. 10, I. 1758, 152. 



[B C , R 506, C 595.] 



GEOG. DIST. Sea-coasts of Europe and part of Asia and Africa ; 

 occasional in Greenland. 



286. Hsematopus palliatus TEMM. 



American Oyster-catcher. 



H&matopus palliatus TEMM. Man. II. 1820, 532. 



[B 512, C 404, R 507, C 596.] 



GEOG. DIST. Sea-coasts of temperate and tropical America, from 

 New Jersey and western Mexico to Patagonia ; occasional or acci- 

 dental on the Atlantic coast north to Massachusetts and Grand 

 Menan. 



