8 BIRDS OF JAMAICA. 



Pisohia macvlata. (Vieillot). Pectoral Sandpiper. Grass Bitd. 



Probably an occasional winter visitor, recorded by the Newtons. 

 Pisobia juscicoUis. (Vieillot). Bonapan,e's Sandpipei. 



An occasional winter visitor. 

 P'<'sobia minvMla. (Vieillot). Least Sandpiper. Peep. 



A regular winter resident and migrant. 

 Calidris alba rubida. (Gmelin). American Sanderling. 



A not uncommon winter resident and migrant. 

 Catoptropharus semipalmatus semipalmatus. (Gmelin). Willet. 



A casual winter visittor, recorded by Gosse, and later by March, whQ.further writes 

 "I have never seen it in summe. though it is said to breed in Saint Elizabeth. " 

 (^eoglottis melanokucas. (Gmelin). Winter Yellow-legs: Grester 



Yellow-legs. 

 An uncommon, but apparently regular winter visitor. 

 Neoglottis flavipes. (Gmelin). Summer Yellow -legs. 



A regular winter visitor. 

 Tringa solitana solitaria. (Wilson). Solitary Sandpiper. 



A common winter resident. 

 Actitis macularia. (Linne). Spotted Sandpiper. 



A common winter resident. Both Gosse and Taylor thought that some individuals 

 also remained throughout the summer. Dr. Field records it as "Resident but not com- 

 mon " during the summer ot 1891. We suggest that these may be barren birds. 

 \Bartramia longicavda. (Bechstein). Upland Plovei. 



Perhaps an accidental straggler to Jamaica, loi which there is one record by March 

 which carries with it a good deal of uncertainty.] 

 i'umenius americanus ocddenialis. Woodhouse. Lesser Long-billed Curlew. 



An occasional winter visitor. March thought it bred in the island, but we believe he 

 was mistaken. Oberholser (Auk. Vol. XXXVI, p. 268, April, 1919) identified Ja- 

 maican records as pertaining to this sub-species. It is possible that N. americanus, 

 •rmricanus Bechsiein, may also have occurred in Jamaica, buu actual specimens only 

 can prove to which race any record may refer. 



Cbabadbiidae. 



Plovers. 

 Sguatarola sqiuitarola cynosurae. Thayer and Bangs. American Black-belUed Plover. 



An oocasiona' winter visitor. 

 Pluvialis dominicus dpminicus. (MuUer). American Golden Plover. 



An occasional winter visitor. 

 [Oxyechiis vocijerus vocijerus. (Linne). Killdeer. 



The North American Killdeer is a migrant and winter resident in the West Indies, 

 and probably occurs in Jamaica. One must, however, ha\e actual specimens in hand 

 to be sure ot the subsj ecies, as in the field weteel certain that the migrant bird cannot 

 always be told fiom the smaller resident form. 



All specimens we have examined from Jamaica belong to the resident, smaller form.] 

 Oxyechus vocijerus rubidus. Riley. West Indian Killdeer. 



A common, resident, breeding species of generaldistribuiion in the unforested parts 

 of the island. This form ca,n be told irom true vocijerus, which probablv occurs as a 

 migrant in Jamaica, by its much smaller size and darker colouration of the upper parts. 

 The same sub-species aiso breeds in the othet Grea er Antilles. 



Many ornithologists refuse to recognize genera based on such slight characters as 

 separate Oxyechua, Pagolla, etc., from Charadrius. The Biitish Ornithologists' Union, 

 A List of British Birds, 1915, has thrown tos,ether in one genus, all the Ring-necked 

 Plover. Foi such, the name rubidus for the West Indian Killdeer is untenable, being 

 reoccupied by Charadrius rubidus Gmelin, Syst. Nat . I. pt. 11, p. 088, 17''9. 

 Calidris alba rubida. (Gmelin). We therefore jropose for use of those who throw 

 togethei Oxyechus and Charadrius, — Charadrius vocijerus ternomirmtus nom. nov., 

 West Indian Killdeer. 

 Pagolla wilsonia rufinucha. (Ridgway). West Indian Wilson's Plover. 



A common resident s; eoies along the beaches. 



The West Indian form of Wilson's Plover had for years been considered to belong to 

 a recognizable sub-sj eoies, but Ridgway himself, recently in his Birds of North and 

 Middle America has repudiated it. Peters, (Bull. Mus. Comp. Zooi., Cambridge, 

 Maes. Vol. LXI, p. 405, Oct. 1917), however, with ample material before him, has 



