ORDER LIMICOLit. 



277 a. u^gialitis meloda circumcincta Ridgw. 



Belted Piping Plover. 



163 



A^gialilis melodus var. circumcinclus Ridgw. Am. Nat. VIII. 1874, 

 109. 



[B — , C 400 rt, R 520 rt, C 583.] 

 Hab. Missouri River region ; occasional eastward to Atlantic coast. 



278. iEgialitis nivosa Cass. 



Snowy Plover. 



uEgialitis nivosa Cass, in Baird, B. N. Am. 1858, 696. 



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



Hab. Western Province of North America; in winter, both coasts 

 of Central America, and Western South America to Chili, 



[279.] ^gialitis mongola (Pall.). 



Mongolian Plover. 



Charadrius mongoltts Pall. Relsa Russ. Reich. III. 1776, 700. 

 ^gialUes mongoliis Swinh. P. Z. S. 1870, 140. 



[B — , C — , R -, C -.] 



Hab. Northern Asia, southward to Northeastern Africa, India, 

 Malay Archipelago, and Australia. Choris Peninsula, Alaska \ acci- 

 dental. 



Subgenus OCHTHODROMUS Reichenbach. 



Ochthodromus Reich. Syst. Av. 1852, p. xviii. Type, Charadrius 

 ivilsonius Ord. 



280. iEgialitis wilsonia (Ord). 

 Wilson's Plover. 



Charadrius wilsonia Ord, Wils. Orn. IX. 1814, 77, pi. 73, fig. 5. 

 uEgialites wilsonius Bonap. Geog. & Comp. List, 1838, 45. 



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



Hab. 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. 



