132 CHECK-LIST OF NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 



Range. — North and South America. Breeds on Arctic shores from 

 Mackenzie River east, probably to Melville Peninsula, and north to Melville 

 Island; winters from central California, Texas, Louisiana, and South Caro- 

 lina to southern Brazil and central Chile. 



Arenaria melanocSphala (Vigors). Black Turnstone. [284.] 



Strepsilas mdanocephalus Vigobs, Zool. Joum., IV, Jan., 1829, 356. 

 (Northwest coast of North America.) 



Range. — Pacific coast of North America. Breeds from Kotzebue 

 Sound south to valley of Lower Yukon; winters from British Columbia 

 south to Santa Margarita Island, Lower California; casual north to 

 Point Barrow, Alaska, and to northeastern Siberia; accidental in India. 



Family HiS:MATOPODID.£. Oyster-catchers. 



Genus H.£MATOPnS Linnaeus. 



Hoematopus LiNN^rs, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, I, 1758, 152. Type, by mon- 

 otypy, HcBmaiopus ostralegus Linn^itts. 



[Hsem&topus ostralegus Linnaeus. European Oyster-catcher. [285.] 



Hcematopus ostralegus Linn^ius, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, 1, 1758, 152. ("Olan- 

 dise & GotlandisB.") 



Range. — Europe, Africa, and India. Breeds from the Arctic Circle 

 to the coasts of Europe, the Black Sea, and Turkestan; winters 

 southward to the coasts of central Africa and India; occasional in 

 Greenland.] 



Hsematopus palli&tus Temmince. Oyster-catcher. [286.] 



Hcematofus palliatus Tbmminck, Manuel d'Orn., ed. 2, II, 1820, 532. 

 (South America.) 



Range. — Coasts of North and South America from Texas, Louis- 

 iana, and Virginia (formerly New Jersey) south on both coasts of 

 Mexico to the West Indies, southern Brazil, and central Chile; cas- 

 ual north to New Brunswick. Breeds probably throughout its 

 range. 



