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whole of the hand-wing white; forehedd, malar region, chin, throat, 
nuchal collar, and under parts of body white, the latter deepening 
into pinkish cinnamon on under tail-coverts and flanks; a black loral 
streak, continued, more narrowly, beneath a cinnamon-whitish sub- 
orbital spot; a band of black completely encircling lower neck. 
Adult male—Wing, 154-167 (160.2); tail, 88-103 (95.6); culmen, 
19-23 (20.3); tarsus, 33-36.5 (34.6); middle toe, 20-23 (21.7). 
Adult female-—Wing, 147-170 (160.1); tail, 90-103 (94.9); culmeh 
19.5-22 (20.4); tarsus, 32-37 (35.2); middle toe, 20.5-22 (21.4).° 
Temperate North America, breeding north to central Quebec 
(Point de Monts), central Keewatin, southern Mackenzie, and central 
British Columbia, south to Gulf Coast of United States, Bahamas 
(New Providence; Little Abaco) (?) and central Mexico; winters from 
Pacific coast of United States (north to Puget Sound), Arizona, 
Texas, southern Illinois and Indiana, New Jersey, and Bermudas, 
southward to Peru (Tambo Valley; Pacasmayo), and Venezuela, 
casually (?) to Paraguay and Chile; casual in Newfoundland; acci- 
dental in British Islands (River Avon, England, April, 1857; Peter- 
head, Scotland, 1867). 
[Charadrius] vociferus Linnmus, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, i, 1758, 150 (Virginia and 
[South] Carolina; based on Chattering Plover, Pluvialis vociferus Catesby, 
Nat. Hist. Carolina, i, 1730, 71, pl. 71); ed. 12, i, 1766, 253.—Gmuezuin, Syst. 
Nat., i, pt. ii, 1789, 685—Laraam, Index Orn., ii, 1790, 742.—Turron, 
Syst. Nat., i, 1806, 413—Gray, Hand-list, iii, 1871, 14, no. 9987, part.— 
D’Hamonvitze, Cat. Ois. Eur., 1876, 48 (England). 
Charadrius vociferus Witson, Am. Orn., vii, 1813, 73, pl. 59, fig. 6—Vizm1or, 
Nouv. Dict. d’Hist. Nat., xxvii, 1818, 141.—Bonaparte, Ann. Lyc. N. Y., 
ii, 1827, 297.—Swainson and Ricwarpson, Fauna Bor.-Am., ii, 1831, 
368.—JarpinE; ed. Wilson’s Am. Orn., ii, 1832, pl. 59, fig. 6.—Nurratt, 
Man. Orn. U. 8S. and Can., Water Birds, 1834, 22.—Aupuson, Orn. Biog,, 
iii, 1835, 191, pl. “215” =225; v, 1839, 577; Synopsis, 1839, 222; Birds Am., 
8vo ed., v, 1842, 207, pl. 317.—Vicors, Zool. Voy. ‘‘Blossom,’’ Birds, 1839, 
29.—TowNnsEND, Journ. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., viii, 1839, 156 (n. w. United 
States).—Prasopy, Rep. Orn. Mass., 1839, 360.—Gray, List Birds Brit. 
a Highteen specimens. + Fourteen specimens. 
Ex- Mid- 
Locality. Wing. | Tail. | posed | Tarsus,| dle 
iculmen toe, 
MALES. 
Five adult males from eastern United States...............-.-+ 158.2 95 20.6 35.1 21.8 
Thirteen adult males from western United States.............. 161 95.5 20.2 34.5 21.7 
Sixteen adult males from West Indies (O. v. rubidus).......... 148.7 88.5 20. 2 34 21.1 
FEMALES. 
Three adult females from eastern United States................ 159.5 | 93.5 20.2 34.9 21.4 
Eleven adult females from western United States.............. 165 99.7 a1, 2 36. 2 21.3 
Nine adult females from West Indies (0. v. rubidus)..........- 150.3 89.8] 20.4) 34.2 20.7 
