BIRDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 131 
Cory, Birds Bahama Is., 1880, 148 (Bahamas, winter and spring).—ReIp, 
Bull. U. 8. Nat. Mus., no. 25, 1884, 230 (Bermudas, 3 specs., 1848, 1850).— 
Sarre, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xxiv, 1896, 292 (Hudson Bay; Lake of the 
Woods; Corpus Christi, Texas; etc.). 
Agialitis] melodus Ripaway, Ann. Lyc. N. Y., x, 1874, 383 (Illinois). 
[Zigialitis] melodus Cory, List Birds West Ind., revised ed., 1886, 25 (Bahamas; 
Greater Antilles). 
Aigialitis meloda Brewster, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, iv, 1879, 44 (descr. young).— 
Scort, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, iv, 1879, 224 (Long Beach, New Jersey, breed- 
ing); Auk, ix, 1892, 15 (Jamaica, Oct., 1887, abundant).—Ripeway, Proc. 
U.S. Nat. Mus., iii, 1880, 199.—American OrniTHOoLogists’ Union, Check 
List, 1886 (and 2d ed., 1895), no. 277; 8rd ed., 1910, 129.—Snron, Auk, iii, 
1886, 152 (Lake Manitoba, June 12; Lake Winnipeg, 4 specs.),—Cory, 
Auk, iv, 1887, 230 (West Indian localities and references); Birds West Ind., 
1889, 230; Cat. West Ind. Birds, 1892, 95 (Bahamas; Cuba; Jamaica; Porto 
Rico).—BisHor, Auk, vi, 1889, 147 (Magdalen Islands, breeding).—Rives, 
Cat. Birds Virginia, 1890, 58 (Cobbs Island, breeding).—Exuror, N. Am. 
Shore Birds, 1895, 185, pl. 61.—SHarps, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xxiv, 1896, 748 
(Greenland, Jan.; Eastport, Maine; Ipswich, Massachusetts; Pennsylvania).— 
Fremine, Auk, xxiii, 1906, 451 (Toronto, Ontario, regular migrant; all old 
records are typical form, all recent ones ZH. m. circumcincta). —TavERNER 
and Swaes, Wilson Bull., no. 60, 1907, 89 (Point Pelee, Ontario, breeding; 
habits, etc.)—Jones (L.), Wilson Bull., xxi, 1909, 131 (Cedar Point, n. 
Ohio, breeding).—VisHER, Auk, xxviii, 1911, 10 (Harding Co., South Da- 
kota, July 17, 18).—Hows, Auk, xxx, 1913, 115 (St. George Bay, Newfound- 
land).—Bunxer, Kansas Univ. Sci. Bull., vii, 1913, 145 (Douglas Co., 
Kansas, May 27, 1909).—Wetmore, Bull. 326, U. S. Dept. Agric., 1916, 38 
(Porto Rico, rare visitant).—Pumire and BownvisH, Auk, xxxiv, 1917, 266 
(a. New Brunswick, breeding; habits). 
A{gialitis] meloda Ripaway, Man. N. Am. Birds, 1887, 178. 
[Agialitis] meloda Swarr, Hand-list, i, 1899, 155.—Forses and Rosinson, 
Bull. Liverp. Mus., ii, no. 2, 1899, 67. 
Hiaticula meloda Gray, List Birds Brit. Mus., iii, 1844, 69. 
[Aegialeus] melodus Gunptacu, Journ. fiir Orn., 1861, 342 (Cuba); 1874, 314 
(Porto Rico); 1878, 162 (Porto Rico)—Hrinse and RetcHenow, Nom. Mus. 
Hein. Orn., 1890, 336. 
Zigialeus smaloden ALLEN, Proc. ia Inst., iv, 1864, 86 (coast of Massachusetts, 
summer). 
Aegialeus melodus GUNDLACH, ew Fisico-Nat. Cuiba, i, 1866, 359; Journ. fiir 
Orn., 1875, 386 (Cuba); 1878, 189 (Porto Rico); Anal. Soc. Esp. Hist. Nat., 
vii, 1878, 385 (Porto Rico). 
Charadrius keri Wacter, Syst. Av., 1827, Charadrius, Sp. 24 (based on Wilson, 
Amer. Orn., v, 1812, pl. 37, fig. 3). 
Aigialitis melodus, Var. circumcinctus Ripaway, Am. Nat., viii, no. 2, Feb., 1874, 
109 (Loup Fork of Platte River, Nebraska; coll. U. S. Nat. Mus.). 
[Higialitis meloda . . . var. circumcincta] a. meloda Cours, Birds Northwest, 
1874, 455. 
[Higialitis meloda.] a. Var. meloda Barrp, Brewer, and Ripaway, Water Birds 
N. Am., i, 1884, 160. 
Aigialitis melodus b. var. cirewmcinctus Cougs, Check List, 1873, App. p. 180, no. 
400a (nomen nudum). 
Aigialitis meloda b. var. circumcincta Cours, Check List, ed. 1874, no. 400a. 
[Hgialitis meloda var. circumcincta] b. circumcincta Cours, Birds Northwest, 
1874, 455. 
