104 BULLETIN 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 
(?) Charadrius jamaicensis Vizio, Nouv. Dict. d’Hist. Nat., xxvii, 1818, 136. 
[Charadrius vociferus] 6 LatHam, Index Orn., ii, 1790, 743 (=C. torquatus 
Linnezeus). 
Charadrius vociferus (not of Linnzus) D’Orsieny, in La Sagra’s Hist. Nat. Cuba, 
Ois., 1840, 246—Harrniaus, Naumannia, ii, 1852, 53 (Cuba; Haiti) — 
Brewer, Proc. Bost. Soc. N. H., vii, 1860, 308 (Cuba) —Bryant, Proc. 
Bost. Soc. N. H., xi, 1867, 97 (Santo. Domingo).—Sunprevau, Oefv, K, 
Vet.-Akad. Foérh., 1869, 602 (Porto Rico). 
Aigialites vociferus Gossz, Birds Jamaica, 1847, 330.—Sani£, Proc. Zool. Soc. 
Lond., 1857, 236 (Santo Domingo)—Marcu, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 
xvi, 1864, 66 (Jamaica).—Cory, Birds Haiti and San Dom., 1885, 141. 
Aigialitis vociferus ALBRECHT, Journ. fiir Orn., 1862, 205 (Jamaica). 
Aigialitis vocifera Cory, Auk, iv, 1887, 228, part (West Indian references and 
localities, except Bahamas); vii, 1900, 374 (Anegada), 375 (Virgin Gorda); 
ix, 1902, 272 (San Diego de los Bafios, Cuba); Birds West Ind., 1889, 228, part 
(except Bahamas); Cat. West Ind. Birds, 1892, 95, part (except Bahamas),— 
Scorr, Auk, ix, 1892, 14 (Jamaica, resident, breeding).—Curisry, Ibis, 
1897, 337 (La Vega and Puerta Plata, Santo Domingo, July; habits).—ScLatEr, 
Revised List Birds Jamaica, 1910, 21 (breeding). 
Ai{gialitis] vocifera Newton (A. and E.), Handb. Jamaica, 1881, 115. 
Oxyechus vociferus GUNDLACH, Journ. fiir Orn., 1856, 424 (Cuba); 1862, 88 (crit.), 
1874, 313 (Porto Rico); 1875, 333 (Cuba; habits); 1878, 162, 189 (Porto Rico); 
Repert. Fisico-Nat. Cuba, i, 1866, 359; Anal. Soc. Esp. Hist. Nat., vii, 1878, 
382 (Porto Rico).—Stauz, Ornis, vol. 3, 1887, 452 (Porto Rico).—SHarrz, 
Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xxiv, 1896, 242, 742, part (Jamaica; San Cristobal, 
Cuba). : 
[Oxyechus] vociferus GunpLAcu, Journ. fir Orn., 1861, 342 (Cuba).—Suarpz, 
‘Hand-list, i, 1899, 154, part.—Forses and Rosinson, Bull. Liverp. Mus., 
ii, no. 2, 1899, 66, part (Jamaica; Almercen, Santo Domingo). 
Oxychecus vociferus WExts, List Birds Grenada, 1886, 7. 
Charadrius (Atgialitis) vociferus Bryant, Proc. -Bost. Soc. N. H., xi, 1867, 97 
(Santo Domingo). 
Oxyechus vociferus rubidus Ritey, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., xxii, April 17, 1909, 88 
(‘small resident West Indian Killdeer;”” new name for Charadrius torquatus 
Linneus, 1766, not Pontoppidan, 1763).—Werrmore, Bull. 326, U: 8. Dept. 
Agric., 1916, 39 (Porto Rico, resident; habits; food). 
Genus PODASOCYS Coues. 
Podasocys* Covss, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., Jan., 1866, 96. (Type, by original 
designation, Charadrius montanus Townsend.) 
Medium-sized Charadriide (wing 138-155 mm.) with culmen not 
longer than middle toe with claw; tarsus twice as long as middle toe 
without claw, more than one-fourth as long as wing; tail decidedly 
less than half as long as wing, slightly rounded; and without any 
black on under parts. 
Bill relatively small and slender, much shorter than head, its depth 
at base equal to less than half the length of exposed culmen, the 
latter equal to or slightly shorter than middle toe with claw; distal 
portion (less than half) of culmen distinctly though slightly arched; 
gonys as long as mandibular rami, nearly straight, ascending termi- 
@ From rodas oxis, swift-footed. (Coues.) 
