Oherholser—Review of the Plover Genus Ochthodromus 511 
A REVIEW OF THE PLOVER GENUS OCHTHODROMUS 
REICHENBACH AND ITS NEAREST ALLIES 
By Harry C. Oberholser. 
The present study originated in the desire to determine the 
proper generic name for the plover commonly known as Ochtho¬ 
dromus wilsonius (Ord). This proved to be much more of a task 
than it at first appeared; and it finally involved not only all the 
species currently referred to the genus Ochthodromus^ but some 
of other genera as well. The interesting, and in one or two 
cases rather surprising, results seem to be worth publication. 
The innocent cause of all this trouble was originally intro¬ 
duced to science by Ord under the name Charadrius wilsonia;^ 
and for some 65 years has been known to authors as Ochthodro¬ 
mus wilsonius (Ord), having been made by Keichenbach the 
monotypic type of his genus Ochthodromus} In the same gen¬ 
eric group Dr. K. B. Sharpe has placed the following species:^ 
1. Ochthodroynus ohscurus (Omelin). 
2. Ochthodromus hicinctus (Jardine and Selby). 
3. Ochthodromus wilsoni (Ord). 
4. Ochthodromus geoffroyi (Wagler). 
5. Ochthodromus mongolus (Pallas). 
6. Ochthodromus pyrrhoihorax (Gould). 
7. Ochthodromus asiaticus (Pallas). 
8. Ochthodromus veredus (Gould). 
Eecently Mr. G. M. Mathews has shown^ that the name Ochtho¬ 
dromus is preoccupied by Ochthedromus LeConte, as well as an¬ 
tedated by Eupoda Brandt,^ and he proposed to use the latter 
iJn Wilson’s Amer. Ornith., IX, 1814, p. 77, pi. 73, fig-. 5 (Cape Island, 
now Cape May, New Jersey). 
2Natiirl. Syst. Vogel, 1852 (1853) p. XVIIL 
3 Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., XXIV, 1896, pp. 209-234. 
iNovit. Zool., XVIII, No. 1, June 17, 1911, p. 5. 
3 In Tchihatcheff’s Voy. Sci. Altai Oriental, 1845, p. 444. 
