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Breeding, locally, from coast of Virginia (Cobbs Island, etc.), 
northern Ohio (Cedar Point), northwestern Indiana (Millers), north- 
eastern Dlinois (Cook Co.), Iowa, and central Nebraska (Loup River), 
also Kansas (Douglas Co.)?, northward to southern Saskatchewan, 
southern Manitoba (Lake Winnipeg, Lake Manitoba), Ontario (Lake 
of the Woods; Hamilton; Toronto; Point Pelee), southern Quebec 
(Magdalen Islands and Amherst Island, Gulf of St. Lawrence), and 
Nova Scotia; wintering on southern Atlantic and Gulf coasts of United 
States (Georgia to Texas), northern Mexico, and Bahamas (resi- 
dent ?); occasional during migration in Bermudas, Cuba, Jamaica, 
and Porto Rico. 
[Charadrius] hiaticula, part, Linnazvus, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, i, 1758,°150 (America). 
Charadrius hiaticula, var. Witson, Am. Orn., v, 1812, 30, pl. 37, fig. 3. 
Charadrius melodus Orp, ed. Wilson’s Am. Orn., vii, 1824, 71 (Great Egg Harbor, 
New Jersey).—Bonaparts, Ann. Lyc. N. Y., ii, 1827, 296; Am. Orn., iv, 
1832, 74, pl. 24.—Nurratt, Man. Orn. U. S. and Can., Water Birds, 1834, 
18.—AupuBon, Orn. Biog., iii, 1835, 154, pl. 220; v, 1839, 578; Synopsis 
1839, 224; Birds Am., 8vo ed., v, 1842, 223, pl. 321—Praxsopy, Rep. Orn. ° 
Mass., 1839, 359.—Wates, Rep. Geol., etc., Miss., 1854, 321.—Putnam, 
Proc. Essex Inst., i, 1856, 216 (Massachusetts)—Bryant, Proc. Bost. Soc. 
N. H., vi, 1857, 119 (Nova Scotia)—Wi11s, Ann. Rep. Smithson. Inst. for 
1858 (1859), 284 (Nova Scotia)—Buanp, Ann. Rep. Smithson. Inst. for 
1858 (1859), 288 (Bermudas).—BreweER, Proc. Bost. Soc. N. H., vii, 1860, 
308 (Cuba).—ScuiEcet, Mus. Pays-Bas, iv, no. 29 (Cursores), 1865, 29.— 
Srrzoum, Geog. Distr. Charadriide, 1888, pp. xvi, 121. 
C{haradrius| melodus Bonaparrs, Journ. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., v, 1825, 99; Obs. 
Nomencl. Wilson’s Am. Orn., 1826, [181].—Gray, Gen. Birds, iii, 1847, 544. 
Char[adrius] melodus Martens, Journ. fiir Orn., 1859, 217 (Bermudas). 
[Charadrius] melodus Gray, Hand-list, iii, 1871, 16, no. 10010. 
4Higialites melodus Bonaparte, Geog. and Comp. List, 1888, 45.—Gossz, Birds 
Jamaica, 1847, 330.—JaRpINE, Contr. Orn., 1849, 83 (Bermudas).—Bry- 
Ant, Proc. Bost. Soc. N. H., vii, 1859, 121 (Bahamas, resident)—Mancs, 
Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., xvi, 1864, 66 (Jamaica)—Brewer, Am. Nat., 
ili, 1869, 231 (New England coast).—Ripeway, Nom. N.-Am. Birds, 1881, no. 
520.—Covss, Check List, 2nd ed., 1882, no. 587. 
Ai{gialites] melodus, JaRDINE, Contr. Orn., 1850, 9 (Bermudas, Sept. 5).—Covzs, 
Key N. Am. Birds, 2nd ed., 1884, 602. 
Aeg[ialites] melodus ALBREcHT, Journ. fiir Orn., 1861, 55 (Bahamas). 
Aegialitis melodus CaBants, Journ. fiir Orn., 1856, 424 (Cuba).—Cassin, in Baird, 
Rep. Pacific R. R. Surv., ix, 1858, 695.—Barrp, Cat. N. Am. Birds, 1859, 
no. 508.—GuNp.aca, Journ. fiir Orn., 1862, 88 (Cuba; crit.) -BoaRDMAN, 
Proc. Bost. Soc. N. H., ix, 1862, 128 (Calais, Maine).—AtBrecur, Journ. fiir 
Orn., 1862, 205 (Jamaica)—Lawrencz, Ann. Lyc. N. Y., viii, 1867, 295 
(vicinity of New York City)—Covss, Proc. Bost. Soc. N. H., xii, 1868, 122 
(South Carolina)—Turnsutt, Birds E. Penn. and N. J., 1869, 38, fig. 
(Phila. ed., 29). 
Aigialitis melodus ScuatER, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1861, 80 (Jamaica).—VER- 
RIL, Proc. Essex Inst., iii, 1862, 157 (Oxford Co., Maine).—McIuwratru, 
Proc. Essex Inst., v, 1866, 92 (Hamilton, Ontario).—Cours, Proc. Essex 
Inst., v, 1868, 291 (New England, summer); Check List, 1873, no. 400.— 
Brewer, Proc. Bost. Soc. N. H., xvii, 1875, 445 (New England, summer).— 
