lOO CHECK-LIST OF NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 



272 a. Charadrius dominicus fulvus (Gmel.). 



Pacific Golden Plover. 



Charadrius fulvus Gmel. S. N. I. ii. 1788, 687. 

 Charadrius dominicus fulvus Ridgw. Pr. U. S. Nat. Mus. III. 

 1880, 198. 



[B— , C— , Rsis^z, 0582.] 



Geog. Dist. — Breeding from northern Asia to the Pribilof Islands 

 and coast of Alaska, south in winter through China and India to 

 Australia and Polynesia. 



Genus iBGIALITIS Boie. 



Subgenus OXYECHUS Reichenbach. 



Oxyechus Reich. Syst. Av. 1853, p. xviii. Type, Charadrius 

 vociferus Linn. 



273. iSgialitis vocifera (Linn.). 



Killdeer. 



Charadrius vociferus Linn. S. N. ed. 10, I. 1758, 150. 

 jEgialites vociferus Bonap. Geog. & Comp. List, 1838, 45. 

 [BS04, C 397, R 516, 0584.] 

 Geog. Dist. — Temperate North America, breeding north to New- 

 foundland and Manitoba, migrating to the West Indies, and Central 

 and northern South America. Bermuda. 



Subgenus .ffiGIALITIS Boie. 



jEgialitis Boie, Isis, r822, 558. Type, by elimination, Chara- 

 drius hiaticula Linn. 



274. iEgialitis semipalmata Bonap. 



Semipalmated Plover. 



Charadrius semipalmatus Bonap. Journ. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. 



V. 1825, 98. 

 y£gialites semipalmatus Bonap. Geog. & Comp. List, 1838, 45. 



