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CHAKADKIUS FULVUS. 



KOLEA. 



u Plover, nearly the same as our whistling plover/' Ellis, Narrat. Voy. Cook & Clerke, ii. p. 143 

 (1782). 



"Plover . . . very like the whistling plover of Europe," King, Voy. Pacif. Ocean, iii. p. 120 (1784). 



"Fulvous Plover/' Latham, Gen. Synops. iii. p. 211 (1785). 



" Golden Plover," Latham, Gen. Synops. iii. p. 194 (partim) (1785). 



Charadrius fulvus, Gmelin, Syst. Nat. i. p. 687 (1788) ; Latham, Ind. Orn. p. 747 (1790) ; 

 Donndorff, Orn. Beytr. i. p. 1092 (1794) ; Tiedemann, Anat. Naturgesch. Vog. ii. p. 434 

 (1814) ; Wagler, Syst. Av. (Charadrius, sp. 37) (1827) ; G. B. Gray, Cat. B. Trop. Isl. p. 47 

 (1859) ; id. Hand-1. iii. p. 14 (1869) ; Dole, Proc. Bost. Soc. N. H. xii. p. 304 (1869) ; 

 id. Hawaiian Alman. 1879, p. 50; Streets, Contr. Nat. Hist. Hawaiian and Panning Isl. p. 16 

 (1877) ; Seebohm, Geogr. Distr. Charadriidae, p. 99 (1887) ; Wiglesworth, Aves Polynesian, 

 p. 63 (1891). 



Charadrius pluvialis {partim), Gmel. Syst. Nat. i. p. 688 (1788) ; Latham, Ind. Orn. p. 740 (1790) ; 

 Peale, U.S. Expl. Exped., Birds, p. 239 (1848) ; Von Kittlitz, Denkwiird. Reise, ii. pp. 141, 187 

 (1858) ; Coinde, Bev. Zool. 1860, p. 400; Von Pelzeln, Beise 'Novara/ Vogel, p. 115 (1865). 



Charadrius xanthocheilus , Cassin, U.S. Expl. Exped., Mamm. & Orn. p. 325 (1858) (qu. Wagler ?). 



Charadrius taitensis, Lesson, Man. d'Orn. ii. p. 321 (1828). 



Charadrius glaucopus, J. B. Forster, Descr. Anim. p. 176 (1844). 



Charadrius auratus orientalis, Temminck & Schlegel, Faun. Jap., Aves, p. 104, pi. lxii. (18 ?). 



Charadrius virginianus, Hartlaub, Arch. f. Naturgesch. 1852, i. p. 121 (partim). 



Pluvialis longipes, " Temm./' P. xanthocheilos, et P. fulvus, Bonaparte, Comptes Bendus, xliii. 

 p. 417 (1856). 



Pluvialis fulvus, Schlegel, Mus. Pays-Bas, Cursores, p. 50 (1865). 



Charadrius dominicus fulvus, Ridgway, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. 1880, p. 198; Nelson, Cruise 'Corwin/ 

 1881, p. 84 (1883) ; Stejneger, Bull. U.S. Nat. Mus. no. 29, p. 104 (1885) ; id. Proc. U.S. Nat. 

 Mus. 1887, pp. 80, 126; id. op. cit. xii. p. 380 (1889). 



[The foregoing references chiefly relate to localities in the North Pacific Ocean.] 



Since the Sandwich Islands were first discovered it has been well known to ornitho- 

 logists that one of the forms of the Golden Plover frequented their shores at certain 

 seasons. Ellis and King both mention having met with the bird, and most subsequent 

 voyagers in that part of the Pacific have also observed it ; while of late years the exact 

 species has been ascertained, and proves to be not the ordinary American C. virginicus, 

 but the Asiatic form (C. fulvus), the breeding-range of which just crosses the American 

 boundary-line into Alaska. Specimens sent by Mr. Knudsen from Kauai, and those 

 in the United States National Museum, agree with Asiatic and Alaskan examples, as 

 do mine. 



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