_Charadrius alexandrinus nihonensis_ Deignan, Journ. Washington
Acad. Sci., vol. 31, 1941, p. 106. (Type locality, Aomori, Hondo.)
_Charadrius cantianus_ Hartlaub and Finsch, Proc. Zool. Soc.
London, 1868, pp. 117, 118 (Pelew); _idem_, Proc. Zool. Soc.
London, p. 89 (Pelew); Finsch, Journ. Mus. Godeffroy, 8, 1875, p.
31 (Palau).
_Aegialitis cantianus_ Wiglesworth, Abhandl. und Ber. Zool. Mus.
Dresden, no. 6, 1890-1891 (1891), p. 64 (Pelew); Takatsukasa and
Kuroda, Tori, 1, 1915, p. 62 (Pelew).
_Aegialitis alexandrinus dealbatus_ Kuroda, in Momiyama, Birds
Micronesia, 1922, p. 45 (Pelew).
_Charadrius alexandrinus dealbatus_ Hand-list Japanese Birds,
rev., 1932, p. 194 (Palau); Hand-list Japanese Birds, 3d ed.,
1942, p. 217 (Palau); Mayr, Birds Southwest Pacific, 1945, p. 37
(Palau).
_Geographic range._--Breeds in Japan and possibly on adjacent parts
of the Asiatic mainland. Winters south to Malaya. In Micronesia:
Palau Islands--exact locality unknown.
_Remarks._--The Kentish Plover is known from a single record obtained by
Semper in the Palau Islands. It is tentatively assigned to _C. a.
nihonensis_, which breeds directly north of the Palau Islands on Japan.
_C. a. dealbatus_ (Swinhoe) breeds more to the west on the Asiatic
mainland and adjacent islands south of Japan. Additional specimens are
needed before the subspecific status of migrants to Micronesia can be
accurately determined.
=Charadrius mongolus stegmanni= Stresemann