138 BULLETIN 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 
Charadrius melodus (not of Ord) Viaors, Zool. Voy. ‘Blossom,’ Birds, 1839, 30 
(San Francisco, California). ; 
Hiaticula azarez (not Charadrius azare Temminck) Darwin, Zool. Voy. ‘Beagle,’ 
Birds, 1841, 127, part (Valparaiso, Chile).—SciaTER, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 
1867, 331 (Chile). ; 
Aegialitis nivosa Cassin, in Baird, Rep. Pacific R. R. Surv., ix, 1858, 696 (Pre- 
sidio, near San Francisco, California; coll. U. S. Nat. Mus.); ed. 1860 (‘Birds 
North America’), 696, pl. 90, figs. 1, 2.—Capanis, Journ. fir Orn., 1856, 158 
(Peru).—Scnatow, Zool. Jahrb., Suppl. iv, Sept. 3, 1898, 665 (Cavanche, 
etc., Chile, May, Oct., Dec.). 
Agialitis nivosa TaczaNnowsxt, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1874, 559 (Chorillos, 
Peru); Orn. du Pérou, iii, 1886, 346.—SHarre, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1881, 
15 (Coquimbo, Straits Magellan, June); Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xxiv, 1896, 
290, 748, part (Tambo Valley, Peru; Valparaiso, etc., Chile; etc.).—Sazvin, 
Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1883, 428 (Chile).—AmErican ORNITHOLOGISTS’ 
Union, Check List, 1886, and 2nd ed., 1895, no. 278; 3rd ed., 1910, p. 129, 
part.—Beruerscy and Srotzmann, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1892, 399 (Choril- 
los, Peru).—Euor, N. Am. Shore Birds, 1895, 188, pl. 63.—Satvin and 
Gopman, Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, iii, 1903, 359, part (Mazatlan, Sinaloa; 
Costa Rica; western South America to Chile; western United States).—Lin- 
ton, Condor, x, 1908, 197 (Buena Vista Lake, Kern Co., California, breed- 
ing).—Bow.es, Auk, xxviii, 1911, 172 (Grays Harbor, Washington, Sept. 
3, 1899). 
(?) Agialitis nivosa Goss, Auk, iii, 1886, 409 (salt plains of Cimarron River, 
Oklahoma, and Comanche Co., Kansas, breeding).*—Bunxer, Kansas Univ. 
Sci. Bull., vii, 1913, 145 (s. w. Kansas; rare summer resident).¢ 
[Aigialitis] nivosa ScLater and Satvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 143, part.—SHaRre, 
Hand-list, i, 1899, 155, part—Forsrs and Rosrnson, Bull. Liverp. Mus., 
ii, no. 2, 1899, 67 (San Francisco, California; Chile). 
Aigialites nivosus Couns, Ibis, 1866, 274 (s. California).—SciatEr, Proc. Zool. 
Soc. Lond., 1867, 339 (Chile).—SctatTEeR and Satvin, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 
1868, 176 (Tambo Valley, w. Peru; crit.). 
[Aigialites] nivosus SctareR and Savin, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1868, 570 (w. 
Peru). 
Zigialitis nivosus Barrp, Cat. N. Am. Birds, 1859, no. 509. 
Zigialitis nivosus Merriam, Sixth Ann. Rep. U. S. Geol. Surv. Terr., 1873, 714 
(Utah).—Hznsuaw, Ann. Lyc. N. Y., xi, 1874, 11 (Salt Lake Valley, Utah). 
Agialitis cantianus var. nivosus Ripeway, Bull. Essex Inst., v, Nov., 1873, 173 
(near Salt Lake City, Utah).—Hensuaw, Rep. Orn. Spec. Wheeler’s Surv., 
1876, 268 (Santa Barbara, California, July). 
Aigialitis cantianus . . . var. nivosus Cougs, Check List, 1873, App., p. 135, no. 
401.—Ripeway, Am. Nat., viii, 1874, 109 (crit.). 
Aigialitis cantiana var. nivosa Couss, Birds Northwest, 1874, 456. 
Ai{gialitis] cantianus nivosus Ripaway, Bull. Essex Inst., vii, Feb., 1875, 31 
(Salt Lake Valley, Utah). : 
Agialitis cantianus, B. nivosus Ripeway, Orn. Fortieth Parallel, 1877, 604 (near 
Salt Lake City, Utah, breeding). 
Aigialitis cantiana nivosa Rrpaway, Proc. U. 8. Nat. Mus., iii, 1880, 199 (Cat. 
N. Am. Birds, no. 521). 
Aigialitis cantianus nivosus Ripeway, Nom. N. Am. Birds, 1881, no. 521. 
Aigialites cantianus nivosus Cougs, Check List, 2nd ed., 1882, no. 591. 
Ai{gialites] cantianus nivosus Cours, Key N. Am. Birds, 2nd ed., 1884, 603. 
May be C. n. tenuirostris. Specimens not examined. 
