CHAEADEIU8. 



105 



ft Dotterels. 



CHARADRIUS MODESTUS. 



FALKLAND-ISLAND DOTTEREL. 



Chaeadrius halluce parvo : axillaribus albis : secundariis fere omnino brunneis. 



Diagnosis. 



Examples from Tierra del Fuego are certainly subspecifically, and possibly specifically, Variations. 

 distinct. 



' I Gould, Zool. Voyage 'Beagle,' p. 126 (1841). 



Charadrius modestuSj Lichtenstein, Verz. Doubt, p. 71 (1823). 



Tringa urvillii^ Garnot, Ann. So. Nat. vii. p. 46 (1826). 



Vanellus cinctus, Lesson, Voyage Coquille, Zool. i. p. 720 (1826). 



Squatarola cincta [Lesson), 



Squatarola fusca^ 



Zonibyx modesta {Licht.), Bonap. Compt. Rend, xliii. p. 417 (1856). 



Eudromias urvillii {Garnot), Sclater, Proc. Zool. Sac. 1860, p. 386. 



Vanellus modesta {Licht.), Burmeister, Syst. Uebers. Thier. Bras. pt. iii. p. 362 (1856). 



Eudromias modestus {Licht.), Hurting, Ibis, 1870, p. 202. 



Morinellus modestus {Licht.}, Schlegel, Mus. Pays-Bas, Cursores, p. 48 (1873). 



Synonymy. 



