_Charadrius curonicus_ Gmelin, Syst. Nat., 1, pt. 2, 1789, p. 692.
(Type locality, Kurland.)
_Charadrius dubius curonicus_ Hand-list Japanese Birds, rev.,
1932, p. 194 (Yap); Hand-list Japanese Birds, 3d ed., 1942, p. 217
(Yap); Mayr, Birds Southwest Pacific, 1945, p. 37 (Micronesia).
_Geographic range._--Breeds in northern Europe and Asia. Winters
from Africa east to Malaysia and Melanesia. In Micronesia: Caroline
Islands--Yap.
_Remarks._--The Ring-necked Plover has been recorded at Yap by the
Japanese collectors. Mayr (1945a:37) remarks that the bird is an
occasional migrant through Micronesia. Gleise and Genelly (1945:221)
observed four "Papuan" Ring-necked Plovers at Eniwetok in 1945.
Apparently no specimen was obtained.
=Charadrius alexandrinus nihonensis= Deignan