182 ALASKA. 



'• Tlioiigb much more abuiulaDt than tbe jneceiling, at certain 

 times, I am satislied tbat the red pbalarope does uot breed bere. 

 It is found, like the other, by tbe marsbj' margins of the lake- 

 lets, solitary or paired, but never in flocks. Tbe earliest arrivals- 

 occur in June, but tbe birds re-appear in greatest number about 

 tbe loth of August. They all leave by tbe oth of October." 



426 his. Tl'illg'a crassirostris, Temm. et ^CULEGBU—Thkk-diUed Sand- 

 ])\])er. " Ko-lits-kie."' 

 Trinfia crassirostris, TEM^^. et Schlegel. Fauna Japouica, 107, 

 pi. 64, (1846.) (?)— Dall. Amer. Naturalist, vii, 635, (Oct., 

 1873.)— COUES. Check-List, 85, Xo. 426 his, (1873.) 



The most interesting result, in some respects, of Mr. Elliott's 

 ornithological researches is the determination of tbe occur- 

 rence of this species in abundance on tbe Prybilov Islands, 

 ■where it breeds. This discovery adds a species, previously un- 

 recognized as Xorth American, to our Fauna. Tbe announce- 

 ment was lately made by Mr. W. H. Dall, as above, upon tbe 

 strength of one of Mr. Elliott's earlier specimens from Saint 

 Paul's. This example was identified by Mr. J. E. Harting,* of 

 London, well known for the extent and accuracy of his in^ esti- 

 gations of tbe Limicoline groups, to whom it was transmitted 

 for the purpose by the Smithsonian Institution. Mr. Elliott's 

 later collections contain numerous specimens, among them sev- 

 eral newly-batched ^oung, hitherto probably unknown. No 

 description of tbe species having been published in this country, 

 we subjoin the following : 



Adult, in breeding plumage. (No. 04240, :Mus. S. I.— G7G, Coll. 

 H. W. E.— July 22, 1873. Saint George's.)— AYith somewhat 

 the general appearance of a Tringa aljnna, but the black area on 

 the under parts pectoral, not abdominal. Bill about as long as 

 the head, straight to tbe end,t compressed, stout, and high at 



* Deferring to this excellent authority ou Limicoline birds, and without 

 a copy of the work in which Tringa crassirostris was originally described,, 

 at hand, we have presented it under the same name. But almost cer- 

 tainly it is )wt the bird described by Schlegel as Tringa crassirostris in tlio 

 Museum des Pays-Bas. The characters there given are those of a diliurent 

 bird altogether. By no latitude of interpretation can the^* be rendered 

 applicable to the present species. In case our bird, here described in de- 

 tail, be found not the same as the true Tringa crassirostris, it may appro- 

 priately be named T. ptiJocncmis, in allusion to the feathered tibijc. We 

 consider it most nearly allied to 'Tringa maritima, next to which it may 

 take its place in the system. 



tin other specimens, and usually, th?. bill isc onsiderably longer, excoed-^ 

 ing the head, and decidodlv decurved at the end. 



