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Names.— Vernacular name: Sand plover (Calif.). Book names: Kentish plover, 
snowy ring-plover, western plover. 
279. Mongolian Plover (Charadrius mongolus *°). 
Range.—Eastern Asia to Australia. Breedsin northeastern Siberia and the Commander Islands: win- 
ters from the Philippines to Australia; accidental on Choris Peninsula, Alaska. 
Names.—No vernacular names for this species are known. 
280. Wilson Plover (Pagolla wilsonia wilsonia *). 
Range.—Southern North America. Breeds from Texas eastward along the Gulf coast, and from south- 
eastern 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 Englanad and at San Diego, Calif. 
Names.— Vernacular names: Ringneck, ring plover (Md.): stuttering bird (Va.); 
stuttering plover (S. C.). Book names: Pluvier de Wilson, Wilson’s ringneck. 
281. Mountain Plover (Hupoda montana **). 
Range.—Western North America. Breeds from northern Montana and western Nebraska south to 
northern New Mexico and northwestern Texas; winters from northern California and southern Texas to 
southern Lower California and central Mexico; accidentalin Florida. 
Names.— Vernacular names: Land plover, mountain plover (Calif.): plover (S. Dak., 
Nebr., Tex.). Book names: Bullhead snipe, pluvier des montagnes (mountain 
plover), prairie plover, Rocky Mountain plover. 
FaMILy APHRIZIDAE: SURF-BIRDS AND TURNSTONES. 
282. Surf-bird (Aphriza virgata). 
Range.—Pacifie coast of North and South America. Breeding range probably in the interior of north- 
western Alaska; winters in Chile to Straits of Magellan; occurs in migration from Kowak River, Alaska, 
to southern South America. 
Names.— Vernacular names: Kock plover, rock snipe (B. C.). Book name: Town- 
send’s surf-bird. 
283. Commen Turnstone (Arenaria interpres). (Fie. 52.) 
Range.—Two subspecies of this bird occur in America. Their ranges may be defined as follows: 
Dusky Turnstone (Arenoria interpres interpres)—Old World Breeds in Western Alaska from 
Point Barrow to the Yukon Delta, and in western Greenland, Scandinavia, northern Russia, Siberia, and 
Japan; winters on the coasts of Europe, Asia, and America to south Africa, Australia, Oceania, and Chile; 
accidentalin Massachusetts. 
Ruddy Turnstone (Arenaria interpres morinella)—Nozrth and South America. Breeds on Arctic 
shores from Mackenzie River east, probably to Melville Peninsula and North Melville Island; winters from 
Texas, Louisiana, and South Carolina to southern Brazil; casual in California. 
VERNACULAR NAMES. 
In general use.—None. 
In local wse.—Beach-bird (Long Id., N. Y., N. J.); beach-plover (Long Id., N. Y.); 
bead-bird (N. J.); bishop-plover (Mass.); biackheart (N. Y.); brant-bird (R. I., Long 
Id., N. Y., N. J.); brant snipe (Long Id., N. Y.); calico (N. J.); calico-back (Mass., 
Long Id., N. Y., N. J., Md., Va., N. C., also introduced in Wash., and Calif.); calico- 
bird (Mass., R. I., N. J., Md.); calico-jacket (N. J.); calico-plover (Long Id., N. Y.); 
calico snipe (Ala.); caraguet-plover (also spelled carriquet; imitation of the note) 
(Que., N. B.); checkered snipe (Calif.); chicaric, chicken (Mass.); chicken-bird (Me., 
Mass., Va.); chicken-plover (N.8., Me., Mass.); chuckatuck (N. J.); creddock (Mass. ); 
gannet (N. J.); heart-bird (Long Id., N. Y.); horse-foot snipe (R. I., Long Id., N. Y.., 
N. J.); jinny (Long Id., N. Y.); king-crab bird (N. C.); maggot-eater (Va., N. C.); 
maggot snipe (Long Id., N. Y.); oyster-bird (Tex.); plover (N. S.); redleg, red-legged 
plover (Mass.); redshank (Ont., B. C.); rock-bird (Me.); rock-plover (Me., R. L., 
B. C.); rock snipe (Wash.); salt-water partridge (Fla.); sea-quail (Conn., Long Id., 
_N. Y.); sparked-back, streaked-back (Mass.); streaked-backed plover (Long Id., 
IN Ss) 
Geographic index.—Ala., calico snipe; B. C., redshank, rock-plover; Calif., calico- 
back, checkered snipe; Conn., sea-quail; Fla., salt-water partridge; Me., chicken- 
bird, chicken-plover, rock-bird, rock-plover; Md., calico-back, calico-bird; Mass., 
bishop plover, calico-back, calico-bird, chicaric, chicken, chicken-bird, chicken-plover, 
creddock, redleg, red-legged plover, sparked back, streaked-back; N. B., caraguet- 
plover; N. J., beach-bird, bead-bird, brant-bird, calico, calico-back, calico-bird, 
calico-jacket, chuckatuck, gannet, horse-foot snipe; N. Y., beach-bird, beach-plover, 
39 A egialitis mongola. 40 Ochthodromus wilsonius. 41 Pedasocys montana, 
