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southwards to central Mexico. It winters from Californiii, 

 New Jersey, and the Bermudas southwards to Venezuela and 

 Peru, and has occurred in Chile and Paraguay. 



^gialitis asiatica. Caspian Plover. 



Charadrius asiaticus Pallas, Eeise Russ. Reichs, ii. 

 1773, p. 715 : S. Tartary. 



Ochthodromus asiaticus (Pall.) ; Sliarjpe, Cat. Birds B. M. xxiv. 



1896, p. 230. 

 .iEgialitis asiatica Saunders, Manual, 2nd ed. 1899, p. 537. 



Asiaticus = Asiatic. 



Distrihution in the British Islands. — A Eare Visitor. A 

 male was obtained and another seen in Norfolk, May 1890. 

 Two wore obtained in Sussex, July 1911. 



General Distribution. — The Caspian Plover breeds from the 

 mouth of the Volga and the shores of the Caspian sea, east- 

 wards across the Kirghiz Steppes to the Altai Mountains, 

 and through the salt lakes of Turkestan, southwards to the 

 Amu Daria. It winters in Africa and has occurred in 

 the Konkan, western India ; also in Italy and Heligoland. 



Genus EUDROMIAS C. L. Brehn, Handb. Nat. Vog. 

 Deutichl. 1831, p. 544. 



Type: E. morinellus (Linn.). 



BudrSm'ias = eWpo/zias, good ruirner ; from f 5 and Spofws. 



Eudromias morinellus. Dotterel. 



Charadrius morinellus Limneus, Syst. Nat. 1758, p. 150 : 



Sweden. 



Eudromias morinellus (Linn.) ; B. O. U. List, 1st ed. 1883, p. 160 ; 



Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. xxiv. 1896, p. 231; Saunders, 



Manual, 2nd ed. 1899, p. 535. 

 Morinellus, diminutive of murus = jxutpos, a simpleton. Gf. "Dottwel = 

 a little dolt. 



