128 BULLETIN 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 
Charadrius hiaticuloides FRanxutn, Proc. Comm. Sci. Zool. Soc. Lond., i, 1831, 
125 (Ganges River, India). 
Charadrius intermedius Méinirriis, Cat. Rais. Caucas., 1832, 53 (Lenkoran),— 
Bonaparte, Geog. and Comp. List., 1838, 45. 
Aigialitis intermedia Sarre, Ibis, 1872, 73 (Accra, w. Africa). 
ZAgialitis intermedius SwinHoE, Ibis, 1870, 361 (Hainan). 
Charadrius zonatus Swanson, Birds West Africa, ii, 1837, 235, pl. 25 (w. Africa), 
Aegialites zonatus Hartitaus, Orn. West-Afrika, 1857, 216 (Gambia; Elmina; 
Sacconde). 
Charadrius alexandrinus (not of Linneus) Turenemann, Abbild. Vogeleiern, 
1845-56, pl. 59—Rercnenow, Journ. fiir Orn., 1889, 265 (Quilimane, e. 
Africa).—ScHatow, Journ. fiir Orn., 1891, 259 (Kadiak Island, Alaska).— 
ReicHENnow, Jahrb. Hamb. Wissensch. Aust., x, 1893, 6 (Quilimane). 
Zigiadlitis alecandrina DurnForpD, Ibis, 1874, 398 (North Frisian Islands). 
[Hiaticula] simplex Licutenstuin, Nom. Av. Mus. Berol., 1854, 94 (East Indies; 
nomen nudum). 
Charadrius gracilis Bream, Naumannia, 1855, 288. 
Aegialitis gracilis Breum, Vogelf., 1855, 282 (Greece). 
Charadrius pygmaeus BreHM, Naumannia, 1855, 289. 
Aegialitis pygmaea Bren, Vogelf., 1855, 282 (s. e. Europe; Africa, winter). 
Aigialitis microrhynchus Ripeway, Am. Nat., viii, no. 2, Feb., 1874, 109 (San 
Francisco, California; coll. U.S. Nat.Mus.).—Covugs, Check List, ed. 1874, 
App., p. 133, no. 400 bis. 
Aigialitis microrhyncha Covzs, Birds Northwest, 1874, 456. 
Aigialitis hiaticula (not Charadrius hiaticula Linnzus) Ramsay, Proc. Linn. Soc. 
N.S. W., i, 1877, 394 (Port Moresby, New Guinea); ii, 1878, 197 (s. New 
Guinea); iii, 1879, 279 (Laloki River); Tab. List Australian Birds, 1888, 19 
(New South Wales). 
Ai[gialitis] jerdoni Leaes, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1880, 39 (India). 
-Aigialitis jerdont Lace, Birds Ceylon, 1880, 956.—Satvaporr, Orn. Papuasia, etc., 
iii, 1882, 303; Age. Orn. Papuasia, etc., iii. 1891, 200; Ann. Mus. Genova, (2), 
xii, 1891, 75 (Sumatra).—Bipputrs, Ibis, 1882, 287 (Gilgit, May, Sept.).— 
Davipson, Stray Feath., x, 1882, 275 (w. Kandeish)—Hvumg, Stray Feath., 
xi, 1888, 315 (Manipur basin).—Ramsay, Tab. List Australian Birds, 1888, 19. 
Charadrius minor jerdont SpEBoHM, Geog. Distr. Charadriide, 1888, 132. 
CHARADRIUS MELODUS Ord. 
PIPING PLOVER. 
Adult male in summer.—Forehead (broadly), whole of loral region, 
and sides of head generally (except auricular region), under parts, and 
broad nuchal collar immaculate white; patch or band across fore part 
of crown, extending from eye to eye, and a much larger one on each 
side of lower neck or upper chest black, the latter sometimes meeting 
or confluent on median portion; rest of under parts, including axillars 
and under wing-coverts, immaculate white; upper parts (except as 
described) pale grayish brown or brownish gray, the anterior lesser 
wing-coverts darker, the greater coverts tipped with white, the lateral 
upper tail-coverts and sides of rump also white; secondaries white, 
the distal ones with outer webs dusky terminally or subterminally; 
primaries dusky with more or less of white on distal portion of outer 
webs (their inner webs white for greater part), the proximal quills 
with outer webs white except terminally; tail pale grayish brown on 
