128 CHECK-LIST OF NOKTH AMEKICAN BIRDS. 



Range. — Eastern Asia and Alaska to New Zealand. Breeds in northern 

 Siberia from Liakof Island to Bering Strait, and in Alaska along the coast of 

 Bering Sea; winters in the Hawaiian Islands, China, Oceanica, New Zealand, 

 and Australia. 



Genus OXYECHUS Reichenbach. 



Oxyechus Reichenbach, Syst. Avium, 1852, xviii. Type, by orig. desig., 

 Charadrius vodferus Linn^tts. 



OxySchus vociferus (Linnaeus). Killdeer. [273.] 



Charadriug vociferus Linn^us, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, 1, 1758, 150. (Virginia 

 and Carolina.) 



Range. — North and South America. Breeds from central British 

 Columbia, southern Mackenzie, central Keewatin, and central Quebec 

 south to the Gulf coast and central Mexico; winters from California, 

 Arizona, Texas, Indiana, New Jersey, and Bermuda south to Vene- 

 zuela and Peru; casual in Newfoundland, Paraguay, and Chile; acci- 

 dental in Great Britain. 



Genus .SGIALITIS Boie. 



JEguMtis BoiE, Isis, X, 1822, 558. Type, by subs, desig., Charadriiis 

 hiaticula Linn/Etjs (Gray, 1855). 



iEgialitis semipalmata (Bonapabte). Semipalmated Plover. [274.] 



Charadrius semipalmaius Bonaparte, Joum. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 

 V, 1825, 98. (Coast of New Jersey.) 



Range. — North and South America. Breeds from Melville Island, 

 Wellington Channel, and Cumberland Sound to the valley of the 

 Upper Yukon, southern Mackenzie, southern Keewatin, and Gulf of 

 St. Lawrence; winters from southern Lower California, ' Louisiana, 

 and South Carolina to Patagonia, Chile, and the Galapagos; casual 

 in Siberia, Greenland, and Bermuda. 



.ffigialitis hiaticula (Linnaeus). Ringed Plover. [275.] 



Charadrius hiaticula Linn.etjs, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, 1, 1758, 150. (Sweden.) 



