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PRiECOCIAL GRALLATORES — LIMICOLrE. 
JEgialites minor, Harting, P. Z. S. 1871, 117 (Alaska?). 
Charadrius intermedins, MkNETR. Catal. 53. 
? Charadrius zona.tus, Swains. B. W. Afr. II. 235, pi. 25. 
AEgialitis microrhynchus, Ridgw. Am. Nat. VIII. Feb. 1874, 109 (winter plumage ; “ San Francisco, 
C'al.”). 
The Little Ringed Plover, Yakh. Brit. B. ed. 2, II. p. 473, tig. ed. 3, II. p. 502, fig. 
Hab. The Palsearctic Region in general ; Western Africa ; accidental on coast of California (!) 
and in Alaska (?). Cf. Harting, P. Z. S. 1871, p. 117. 
Sp. Char. Adult 9 : Lores, auriculars, and beneath the eye, dusky brown, or dull blackish, 
this color crossing the anterior part of the forehead at the base of the bill ; a broad band of black 
(about .40 of an inch wide) crossing the anterior part of the crown, from eye to eye, and separated 
from the black frontlet by a band of white about .15 of an inch wide ; behind this black vertical 
band a narrow one of ashy white, continued back above the eyes and auriculars to the occiput ; 
chin, throat, malar region, and cheeks, pure white, confluent with a broad and very distinctly 
defined white nuchal collar ; a black collar completely encircling the neck, immediately below the 
white of the throat and nape ; remaining under parts, including under surface of the wing, entirely 
pure white. Upper parts, including the occiput and posterior part of the crown, brownish gray, 
lighter on the rump and central upper tail-coverts ; sides of the rump and lateral upper tail-coverts, 
shaft of the outer primary, terminal margins of the secondaries, outer webs of two outer tail- 
feathers, with ends of all except the middle pair, white ; inner web of outer tail-feather white, 
with a dusky sub-terminal spot. .Bill small and slender, entirely black, except at the base of the 
mandible ; iris dark brown ; legs and feet pale-colored, the latter with a small web connecting 
the outer and middle toes at the base, the inner and middle toes entirely separated. Wing, 4.50 ; 
culmen, .50 ; tarsus, 1.00 ; middle toe, .55 (No. 56876, Europe ; Schliitter Coll.). 
Young (and winter adult ?) : Similar to the same stage of JE. scmipalmata, but cheeks white 
up to the eye, white of the forehead much less distinctly defined, and grading insensibly into the 
gray of the crown ; two outer tail-feathers white, the inner webs with a dusky transverse spot near 
the end. Form much more slender than ^E. semipalmata, the bill especially, which is also of 
entirely different form. Wing, 4.35 ; tail, 2.50 ; culmen, .50 ; greatest depth of bill, .10 ; tarsus, 
1.00 ; middle toe, .65. (Type of JE. “ microrhynchus, Ridgw ay,” No. 39523, U. S. Nat. Mus. ; 
“ San Francisco, Cal. ; E. F. Lorquin.”) 
“ Charadrius hiaticula, var.,” Wilson, Aid. Orn. V. 1812, 30, pi. 37, f. 2„ 
Charadrius melodies, Ord. ed. Wils. VII. 1824, 71. — Bonap. Am. Orn. IV. 1832, 74, pi. 24. — 
Nutt. Man. II. 1834, 18. —Aud. Orn. Biog. III. 1835, 154 ; V. 1839, 578, pi. 220 ; B. Am. 
V. 1842, 223, pi. 321. 
JEgialitis rnelodus, Bonap. Comp. List, 1838, 45. — C'assin. in Baird’s B. N. Am. 1858, 695. — 
Baird, Cat. N. Am. B. 1859, no. 508. — Coues, Key, 1872, 244 ; Check List, 1873, no. 400; 
2d ed. 1882, no. 587. — Ridgw. Norn. N. Am. B. 1881, no. 520. 
Charadrius Okeni, Wagl. Syst. Av. 1827. 
JEgiaMtis melodus, var. circumcinctus, Ridgw. Am. Nat. VIII. 1874, 109. 
uddgialitis meloda, var. circumcincta, Coues, Check List, App. p. 133, no. 400« ; Birds N. W. 1874, 
455. 
yEgialitcs melodus circumcinctus, Ridgw. Nom. N. Am. B. 1881, no. 520«. — Coues, Check List, 
2d ed. 1882, no. 588. 
Hab. The Eastern Province of North America, breeding in the northern portion of its range 
(British Provinces and more Northern United States), and wintering southward. Bermudas ; Baha- 
mas ; Cuba ; Jamaica. The var. circumcincta chiefly restricted to the Missouri River region. 
.ZEgialitis meloda. 
a. Var. meloda. THE COMMON PIPING PLOVER. 
b. Var. circumcincta. THE RINGED PIPING PLOVER. 
