. The geographical distribution of the family Charadriidae, or, The plovers, sandpipers, snipes, and their allies . Shore birds. 126 CHAEADRIUS. Synonymy. Literature. Specific characters. Geographi- cal distrihu- tion. Charadrius Maticula, Linneus, Syst. Nat. i. p. 150 (1758); Um. Syst. Nat. i. p. 253 (1766). Pluvialis torquata minor, Brisson, Orn. v. p. 63 (1760). iEgialitis hiaticula {Linn.), Boie, Ms, 1822, p. 558. Hiaticula annulata, Gray, List Gen. B. p. 65 (1840). Hiaticula hiaticula [Linn.), Lichtenstein, Nomencl. Av. p. 94 (1854). iEgialites anritus, Heuglin, Syst. Uebers. Vog.
. The geographical distribution of the family Charadriidae, or, The plovers, sandpipers, snipes, and their allies . Shore birds. 126 CHAEADRIUS. Synonymy. Literature. Specific characters. Geographi- cal distrihu- tion. Charadrius Maticula, Linneus, Syst. Nat. i. p. 150 (1758); Um. Syst. Nat. i. p. 253 (1766). Pluvialis torquata minor, Brisson, Orn. v. p. 63 (1760). iEgialitis hiaticula {Linn.), Boie, Ms, 1822, p. 558. Hiaticula annulata, Gray, List Gen. B. p. 65 (1840). Hiaticula hiaticula [Linn.), Lichtenstein, Nomencl. Av. p. 94 (1854). iEgialites anritus, Heuglin, Syst. Uebers. Vog. p. 56 (1856). Plates.—Daub. PI. Enl. no. 920; Dresser, Birds of Europe, vii. pi. 525. Habits.—Seebohm, British Birds, iii. p. 20. Eggs.—Seebohm, British Birds, pi. 26. fig. 6. The Ringed Plover has the whole of the underparts pure white, with the exception of the lores and a single broad hreast-hand, both of which are black in adult male, brown in female and young. Nearly the central half of the outer webs of the innermost primaries is white; and the web between the outer and middle toes only reaches to the first joint. It breeds in Greenland, Iceland, Spitzbergen, and Nova Zembla. It is a regular summer visitor to the whole of Europe north of the Alps, and to Asia at least as far east as the Taimyr peninsula. In South Siberia it is not known to have occurred east of Lake Baikal, but it breeds regularly in Western Siberia and sparingly in Turkestan. It probably passes through Persia on migration, and winters in the basin of the Mediterranean and in Africa, where it has been found in almost every part of the continent. There seems to be little doubt that it breeds in Cumberland Bay, on the American side of Davis Strait; and it has been recorded as an accidental straggler in India and Australia, but on very unsatisfactory evidence. Heuglin suggests that some remain on the shores of the Red Sea to breed, but the evidence is not at all conclusive. Its nearest ally is unque
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