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Range. — Eastern Asia to Australia. Breeds in northeastern Siberia 

 and the Commander Islands; winters from the Philippines to Austra- 

 lia; accidental on Choris Peninsula, Alaska.] 



Genus OCHTHODROMUS Reichenbach. 



Ochihodromus Reichenbach, Syst. Avium, 1852, xviii. Type, by orig. 

 desig., Charadrius wUsonia Obd. 



Ochthodromus wilsonius (Ord). Wilson's Plover. [280.] 



Charadrius vdlsonia Obd, in Wilson, Amer. Om., IX, 1814, 77, pi. 73, 

 fig. 5. ("Shore of Cape Island," New Jersey.) 



Range. — Southern North America. Breeds from Texas eastward 

 along the Gulf coast, and from southeastern Virginia (formerly New 

 Jersey) south to the northern Bahamas; winters from southern Lower 

 California, Texas, and Florida south to southern Guatemala and 

 probably to the West Indies; casual in Nova Scotia and New Eng- 

 land, and at San Diego, California. 



Genus PODASOCTS Coues. 



Podasocys Cotjes, Proe. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1866, 96. Type, by orig. 

 desig., Charadrius montanus Townsend. 



Podasocys montanus (J. K. Townsend). Mountain Plover. [281.] 



Charadrius montanus Townsend, Journ. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., VII, 

 1837, 192. (Central tableland of Rocky Movintains, near Sweetwater 

 River, Wyoming.) 



Range. — Western North America. Breeds from northern Mon- 

 tana and western Nebraska south to northern New Mexico and north- 

 western Texas; winters from northern California and southern Texas 

 to southern Lower California and central Mexico; accidental in 

 Florida. 



