CnARADTUirLE. 
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Gonn s PLUVIALIS B risson. 
Pluvial is Brissoti, Ornith. vol. i. p. 4(5, vol. v. p. 42, 1700. Type (by 
tautonyiny) : Pluvial is = Charadrius apricarius Linne. 
Pluvialis dominicus (Muller). 
Distr .—Northern parts of the 014 World to Australia, Africa, 
and South America. 
[Pluvialis dominicus dcminicus (Muller). (24-195.) 
Charadrius dominicus P. L. S. Miiller, Vollst. Natursyst. Suppl. 
p. 110, 1770 (pref. Jan. 4th) : Santo Domingo, America. 
Distr . — A meriea. Ex tra-limita1. ] 
Pluvialis dominicus fulvus (Gmelin). 
Charadrius fulvus Gmelin, Syst. Nat. vol. i. pt. ii. p. 087, Apr. 20th, 
1781): Tahiti. (Fig. Gould, Austr. vi. pi. 13; Math. pi. 133, & 
Dresser, vii. pis. 510-517.) 
Charadrius griseus Latham, Index Ornitli., Suppl. p. Ixvii, 1801, after May: 
New South Wales (Watling Drawing, 245). 
Charadrius taiiensis Lesson, Diet. Sci. Nat. (Lerrault), vol. xlii. p. 35, Sept. 23rd, 
1826: Tahiti. 
Charadrius .vanthocheilus Wagler, Syst. Av., Charadr. ep. 36, p. 66, Oct. 1827: 
no locality = Australia. 
Charadrius glaucopns Wagler. Isis, June 1829, col. 649 : ex Forster MS., Tahiti. 
Charadrius pluvialis orienlalie Teinminck & Schlegel, Fauna Jap. (Sicbold), 
p. 104, pi. 62, 1849: Japan. 
Charadrius auratua lungipes Schlegel, Vogels van Nederl. p. 411, 1854: East 
Asia. 
Dish' —Winter visitor to Australia and the Pacific Islands 
from Hawaii to the Taumotus (breeding in the Northern 
Hemisphere). 
Genus PLUVIORHYNCHUS Bp. 
Pluviorhynchus Bonaparte, Comptes Kendus Sci. Paris, vol. xliii. 
p. 417, Sept. 1st, 1856. Type (by subsequent designation), 
Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mas. vol. xxiv. p. 209, 1896: Charadrius 
obscurus Gmelin. 
Pluviorhynchus obscurus (Gmelin). (24-211.) 
Charadrius obscurus Gmelin, Syst. Nat. vol. i. pt. ii. p. 086, Apr. 20th, 
1789: Dusky Sound, South Island, New Zealand. (Fig. Duller, 
2nd ed. pi. 25 ; Seebohm, Plovers, pi. 6; and Ereb. & Terr. pi. 9.) 
Charadrius glareola Forstor, Doscript. Anim. cd. Licht. p. 109 (prof. Jan.), 
1844: Now Zealand. 
Distr. —New Zealand (both Islands); Stewart Island (breeding). 
Genus CIRREPIDESMUS Bonaparte. 
Cirrepidcsmus Bonaparte, Comptes BendusAead. Sci. Paris, vol. xliii. 
p. 417, Sept. 1st. 1856. Type (bv tautonyiny): Charadrius 
ptjrrholhorax Gould = C. atrifrons Wagler. 
