160 PEiECOCIAL GRALLATORES — LLMICOL^. 



^(jialitcs minor, Hauti.ng, P. Z. S. 1S71, 117 (Al'iska ?). 



Charadrius iiUennrdius, Menetu. C'atal. 53. 



? Charadrius zimalus, Swains. B. W. Afr. II. 235, iil. 25. 



uSHgialitis microrhi/nchus, Kidgw. Am. Nat. VIII. Feb. 1874, lOU (winter plumage ; "Sail Francisco, 



Cal."). 

 The LiUle Ringed Plover, Yakk. Brit. B. vd. 2, II. p. 473, tig. ed. 3, II. p. 502, fig. 



Hab. The Paltearctic Region in general ; Western Africa ; acciJeiitul on coast of California (') 

 and in Alaska (0- Of. Harting, P. Z. S. 1871, p. 117. 



Sp. Char. Adult 9 : Lores, auriculars, .and liencatli the eye, dusky brown, or dull blackish, 

 this color crossing the anterior part of the forehead at the base of the bill ; a broad band of Idack 

 (about .40 of an inch wide) crossing the anterior part of the crown, from eye to eye, and separated 

 from the black frontlet by a band of white about .15 of an inch wide ; behind this black vertical 

 band a narrow one of ashy white, continued back above the eyes and auriculars to the occiput ; 

 chin, throat, malar region, and cheeks, pure white, confluent with a broad and very distinctly 

 defined white nuchal collar ; a black collar completely encircling the neck, immediately below the 

 white of the throat and nape ; remaining under parts, including under surface of the wing, entirely 

 pure white. Upper parts, including the occiput and posterior part of the crown, brownish gray, 

 lighter on the rump and central upper tail-coverts ; sides of the rump and lateral ujiper tail-coverts, 

 shaft of the outer primary, terminal margins of the secondaries, outer webs of two outer tail- 

 feathers, with ends of all except the middle pair, white ; inner web of outer tail-feather white, 

 with a dusky sub-terminal spot. Bill small and slender, entirely black, e.\cept at the base of the 

 mandible ; iris dark brown ; legs and feet pale-colored, the latter with a small w'eb connecting 

 the outer and middle toes at the base, the inner and middle toes entiiely separated. Wing, 4.50 ; 

 culmen, .50 ;" tarsus, 1.00 ; middle toe, .55 (No. .5t)87(i, Europe ; SchlUtter Coll.). 



Youwj {and winter adult ?) : Similar to the same stage of ^-E. semipalirMta, but cheeks white 

 up to the eye, white of the forehead much less distinctly defined, and grading insensibly into the 

 gray of the crown ; two outer tail-feathers white, the inner webs with a dusky transverse spot near 

 the end. Form much more slender than ^S. semqialniata, the bill especially, which is also of 

 entirely difl'erent form. Wing, 4.35 ; tail, 2.50 ; culmen, .50 ; greatest deptli of liill, .10 ; tarsus, 

 l.OQ ; middle toe, .(35. (Tyi]e of .-7?. 'Unierorhiinchug, Ridgway," No. 39523, U. S. Nat. Mus. ; 

 "San Francisco, Cal. ; E. F. Lorquin.'') 



^gialitis meloda. 



a. Vai . meloda. THE COMMON PIPING PLOVER. 



" CiMradrius hialieu/a, var.," Wilson, .Vni. Dm. V. 1812, 30, ]il. 37, f. 2- 



Cliaradrius melodus, Onn. ed. Wils. VII. 1824, 71. — Boxap. Am. Orn. IV. 1832, 74, pi. 24.— 



NuTT. Man. II. 1834, IS. — Arn. Oin. Biog. III. 1835, 154; V. 1839, 578, pi. 220; B. Am. 



V. 1842, 223, pi. 321. 

 JSgialitis melodus, BoXAi'. Coiup. List, 1S3S, 45. — Cassix. in Baiid's B. N. Am. 1S5S, 695. — 



Baikd, Cat. N. Am. B. 1859, no. 508. — CouES, Key, 1872, 244 ; Cheek List, 1873, no. 400 ; 



2d ed. 1882, uo. 587. — Rinow. Norn. N. Am. B. 1881, no. 520. 

 Charadrius Okcwi, Wagl. Syst. A v. 1827. 



//. Vaj'. circumcincta. THE RINGED PIPING PLOVER. 



yEgialitis melodas, var. eircumcinctus, Ridgw. Am. Nat. VIII. 1874, 109. 



^giaJ His meloda, var. circumcincta, CouES, Check Li.st, App. p. 133, no. 400« ; Birds N. W. 1874, 



4,55. 

 yEgialiles melodus circumcinctus, RiDOW. Nom. N. Am. B. 1881, no. 52()ft. — CouEs, Check List, 



2d ed. 1882, no. 588. 



Hab. The East,m-ii Province of North America, Iireeding in the northern portion of its range 

 (British Provinces and more Northern United States), and wintering soutliward. Bermudas ; Baha- 

 mas ; Cuba ; Jamaica. The var. circumcincta chieflv restricted to the Missouri River region. 



