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Charadrius cirrhipedesmus Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1860, 363 (East Gilolo). 
Charadrius] cirrhipedesmus Gray, Gen. Birds, iii, 1847, 544: 
Ch{aradrius] gularis Wacusr, Syst. Av., 1827, Charadrius, sp. 40 (new name for 
C. mongolus Pallas). 
Charadrius sanguineus Lesson, Man. d’Orn., ii, 1828, 330 (no locality); Traité 
d’Orn., 1831, 544. 
Hiaticula tnarnnte Gout, Birds Australia, vi, 1846, pl. 19, right-hand fig., and 
text (Torres Strait, Australia)—RuicHenBacH, Vég. Neuholl., 1851, no. 
331.—Macermirvray, Narr. Voy. ‘Rattlesnake,’’ ii, 1852, 358 (n. e. coast 
Australia; Torres Straits). 
Aegialitis inornata RutcHENBACH, Grallatores, Novit., 1851, pl. 298, figs. 2426- 
2427. 
Aigialitis inornata Ramsay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N. §. W., i, 1877, 375.—Forszgs, 
Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1878, 127 (Wednesday Island, Torres Straits); Voy. 
“‘Challenger,’’ ii, Birds, 1881, 92. 
Charadrius inornatus Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1858, 187, 197 (Aru Islands); 
1861, 438 (Aru Islands); Cat. Mam. and Birds New Guinea, 1859, 62.—Rosrn- 
BERG, Nat. Tijdschr. Nederl. Ind., xxv, 1863, 253; Journ. ftir Orn., 1864, 135; 
Malay Archipel., 1878-79, 563.—Finscu, Neu-Guinea, 1865, 181. 
Ochthodromus inornatus Goutp, Handb. Birds Australia, ii, 1865, 237. 
Zigialitis mastersi Ramsay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N. 8. W., i, 1876, 135 (Rockingham 
Bay to Cape York, Queensland); ii, 1878, 107; Tab. List. Austral. Birds, 1888, 
19 (Gulf of Carpentaria; Rockingham Bay).—Lzaesz, Proc. Austral. Assoc. 
Advance. Sci., 1892, 38. 
Aigialitis ruficapilla? (not Charadrius ruficapillus Temminck) Biaxiston and 
Prayer, Ibis, 1878, 219 (Yokohama, Japan; see Seebohm, Ibis, 1879, 25). 
Aigialitis ruficapilla SreBoum, Ibis, 1879, 25 (Hakodate and s. Yezo, Japan; crit.). 
Charadrius pyrrhothorax (not of Temminck) Frirscz, Vig. Eur., 1870, pl. 33, fig. 
18.—RosENBERG, Malay Archipel., 1878-79, 373 (Aru Islands). 
CHARADRIUS NIVOSUS NIVOSUS (Cassin). 
SNOWY PLOVER. 
Adult male in summer.—F orehead, superciliary region, whole of loral 
region, suborbital and malar regions and under parts immaculate 
white, the sides of chest with a transverse patch of black; fore part 
of crown and upper portion of auricular region black; rest of upper 
parts light brownish gray or grayish brown, the crown and occiput 
often varying to light buff; proximal secondaries mostly white; 
primaries dusky with white shafts, the proximal quills with much 
white on outer webs; two outer rectrices (on each side) white, the 
rest growing giadually darker to the middle pair, which are grayish 
brown, darker distally; bill and naked eye-ring black; interior of 
mouth fleshy white (in life); iris dark brown; legs and feet slate color 
or slate-grayish (in life). 
Adult female in summer.—Similar to the male and not always dis- 
tinguishable, but usually with black of head-markings and on sides of 
chest much duller, sometimes dusky grayish brown. 
Winter plumage.—Similar to the adult female, but black or dusky 
of head-markings and patch on side of chest replaced by brownish 
gray or grayish brown. 
