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Range. — Nearly cosmopolitan. Breeds on the Arctic coast from 

 Point Barrow to Boothia and Melville peninsulas, and also on the 

 Arctic coast of Russia and Siberia; winters from the Mediterranean 

 to South Africa, in India and Australia, and from California, Louisi- 

 ana, and North Carolina to Brazil and Peru; in migration occurs 

 throughout the United States and in Greenland and Bermuda; acci- 

 dental in Hawaii. 



Genus CHARADRIUS Linn^us. 



Charadrms Linn^tjs, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, I, 1758, 150. Type, by subs, 

 desig., Charadrius pluvialis Linn^us = Charadrius apricarius Linn^us 

 (Gray, 1840). 



[Charadrius apricdrius LiNNiEus. European Golden Plover. [271.] 



Charadrius apricarius LiNN^astrs, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, 1, 1758, 150. (Oland 

 Island, Sweden.) 



Range. — Northern part of the Old World. Breeds from Great 

 Britain and central Europe to Iceland, Norway, and northwestern 

 Siberia; winters south to northern Africa and southern Asia; casual 

 in Greenland.] 



Charadrius dominicus (Muller). 



Range. — Nearly cosmopolitan. Breeds in the Arctic regions ; 

 in winter south to the southern part of the Southern Hemisphere. 



a. Charadrius dominicus dominicus (MtJLLEB). Golden Plover. [272.] 



Charadrius dominicus MOllbr, Natursyst. Suppl., 1776, 116. (Santo 

 Domingo, West Indies.) 



Range. — North and South America. Breeds from Kotzebue Sound along 

 the Arctic coast to mouth of the Mackenzie, and from Melville Island, Welling- 

 ton Channel, and Melville Peninsula south to northwestern Hudson Bay; 

 winters on the pampas of Brazil and Argentina; migrates south across the 

 Atlantic from Nova Scotia and New Brunswick; a few pass south through the 

 Mississippi Valley, and all migrate north by this route; in migration to Cali- 

 fornia, Greenland, and Bermuda ; formerly abundant, now becoming rate. 



b. Charadrius dominicus fulvus Gmelin. Pacific Golden Plover. [272a.] 



Charadrius fulvus Gmblin, Syst. Nat., I, ii, 1789, 687. (Tahiti, Society 

 Islands.) 



