l62 CHECK-LIST OF NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 



SUDGENUS iEOIALITIS Boie. 



/Egi'aliiis Boie, Isis. 1822, 558. Type, by elimination, Charadrius 

 hiaticula LiNN. 



274. iEglalitis semipalmata Bonap. 



Scmipalinuted Plover. 



jEgialites semipalmatus Bonap. Geo£;. & Comp. List, 1838, 45. 



[BS07, C^99, R 517, C 586.] 



Hab. Arctic and subarctic America, migrating south throughout 

 tropical America, as far as Brazil and Peru. 



275. iEgialitis hiaticula (Linn.). 



King Plover. 



Charadrius hiatiacla Linn. S. N. ed. ro, L 1758, 150. 

 jEgialitis hiaticula Boie, Isis, 1822, 558. 



[B— , C-, R518, C589.] 



Hab. Northern parts of the Old World and portions of Arctic 

 America, breeding on the west shore of Cumberland Gulf. 



[276.] iBgialitis dubia (Scop.). 

 Little Ring Plover. 



Charadrius dubius Scopol:, Delic. F. et Fl. Insubr. II. 1786, 93. 

 jEgialites dubius Walden, Trans. Zool. Soc VIII. ii. 1872, 89. 



[B — , C 4oo<'3;V, R 519, C 590.] 



Hab. Most of the Eastern Hemisphere, breeding northward. Ac- 

 cidental on the coast of California and in Alaska. 



277. iBgialitis meloda (Ord). 



Piping Plover. 



Charadrius vielodus Ord, ed. Wils. VII. 1824, 71. 

 jEgialites melodus Bonap. Geog. & Comp. List, 1838, 45. 



[B 508, C 400, R 520, C 587.] 



Hab. Eastern Province of North America, breeding from the coast 

 of Virginia (at least formerly) northward ; in winter, West Indies. 



