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Atlantic and Gulf coasts of United States, Gulf coast of Mexico and 
British Honduras, and West Indies; breeding from coast of Virginia 
(formerly New Jersey) southward to Bahamas (Andros, Inagua, Little 
Abaco, Concepcion, and Rum Cay) to Jamaica (Spanishtown), and Brit- 
ish Honduras (Grassy Cay), probably in other West Indian islands, 
“which its occurrence is recorded from Cuba (Cabafias; Mariél), 
aiti (Saman4é, Santo Domingo), Porto Rico, Vieques, St. Thomas, 
St. Christopher, Anegada, Virgin Gorda, and Guadeloupe; occurring 
occasionally or accidentally northward to New York (vicinity of 
New York City; Long Island, several records; Utica, spring of 1868; 
Oneida Lake, 1880), Connecticut (Garnet, Aug. 22, 1877), Massa- 
chusetts (Nahant, August, formerly), and Nova Scotia (Brier Island, 
April, 28 1880; Halifax). (Possibly occurring, as a winter visitant 
or resident, along coast of Brazil, though the Brazilian specimens 
may be referable to P. w. cinnamomina.) 
Charadrius wilsonia Orb, in Wilson’s Am. Orn.,ix, 1814, 77, pl. 73, fig. 5 (‘‘ Shores 
of Cape Island” =Cape May, New Jersey; probable type now in coll. Mus. 
Comp. Zool.; see Faxon, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., lix, 1915, 133); ed Wilson’s 
Am. Orn., ix, 1825, 77, pl. 73, fig. 5. 
Charadrius wilsonius Vie1tuot, Nouv. Dict. d’Hist. Nat., xxvii, 1818, 148, part.— 
Bonaparte, Ann. Lyc. N. Y., ii, 1827, 296.—Nurratt, Man. Orn. U. S. © 
and Can., Water Birds, 1834, 21.—Avupuson, Orn. Biog., iii, 1835, 73, pl. 
209; v, 1839, 577; Synopsis, 1839, 223; Birds Am., 8vo ed., v, 1842, 214, pl. 
319.—Prapopy, Rep. Orn. Mass., 1839, 359 (abundantat Nahantin August).— 
Lemperyr, Aves de la Isla de Cuba, 1850, 106.—WartsEs, Rep. Geol., etc., 
Miss., 1854, 321 (Mississippi).—Purnam, Proc. Essex Inst., i, 1856, 224.— 
Brewer, Proc. Bost. Soc. N. H., vii, 1860, 308 (Cuba).—Scutecet, Mus. 
Pays-Bas, iv, no. 29 (Cursores), 1865, 30, part.—(?) Petzetn, Orn. Bras., 
1870, 297 (Rio Muria, Cujutuba, Feb.).—Lawrencs, Proc. U. 8. Nat. Mus., 
i, 1878, 450 (Guadeloupe).—Banes, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., Ix, 1916, 306 
(Cayman Islands, breeding). 
Clharadrius] wilsonius Bonaparte, Journ. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., v, 1825, 100 
(crit.); Obs. Nomencl. Wilson’s Am. Orn., 1826, [182].—(?) Puizein, Orn. 
Bras:, 1870, 455. 
Aigialites palleomiins Bonaparte, Geog. and Comp. List, 1838, 45.—Bryant, Proc. 
Bost. Soc. N. H., vii, 1859, 121 (Bahamas, resident).—Manrcu, Proc. Ac. Nat. 
Sci. Phila., xvi, 1864, 66 (Jamaica).—Dresser, Ibis, 1866, 34 (Galveston 
Island, Texas).—Covss, Check List, 1873, no. 585; Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, 
vii, 1882, 59 (Garnet, Connecticut, Aug. 22, 1877). —NewRuine, Bull. Nutt. 
On, Club, vii, 1882, 222 (coast s. e. Texas, breeding). 
[Aegialites] wilsonius ALBREcuHT, Journ. fiir Orn., 1861, 55 (Bahamas). 
4i[gialites] wilsonius Cours, Key N. Am. Birds, 2d ed., 1884, 601. 
Aegialitis wilsonius Cassin, in Baird, Rep. Pacific R. R. Rep., ix, 1858, 693; 
Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1860, 378 (St. Thomas, Greater Antilles).—Barrp, 
Cat. N. Am. Birds, 1859, no. 506. 
[Aegialitis] wilsonius Lawrence, Ann. Lyc. N. Y., viti, 1866, 294 (vicinity New 
York City). 
[Aigialitis] wilsonius Cours, Key N. Am. Birds, 1872, 244.—Cory, List Birds 
West Ind., revised ed., 1886, 25. 
Aigialitis wilsonius Cougs, Proc. Essex Inst., v, 1868, 291; Proc. Bost. Soc. N. H., 
xii, 1868, 122 (South Carolina); Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., xxiii, 1871, 28 
