The bird I speak of is the charadrius dominicanca, which breeds in Arctic America and migrates in August and September to the plains of La Plata and Patagonia, so that it travels about sixteen thousand miles every year.
"Far Away and Long Ago"
W. H. Hudson
Mallophaga: Actornithophilus ochraceus, August 9; Quadraceps assimilis major, August 7. charadrius wilsonia wilsonia Ord: Wilson Plover.
"Summer Birds From the Yucatan Peninsula"
Erwin E. Klaas
I wonder that the stone curlew, charadrius oedicnemus, should be mentioned by the writers as a rare bird: it abounds in all the campaign parts of Hampshire and Sussex, and breeds, I think, all the summer, having young ones, I know, very late in the autumn.
"The-Natural-History-of-Selborne"
White, Gilbert