108 CHECK-LIST OF NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 



Subfamily APHRIZINAE. Surf-birds. 



Genus APHRIZA Audubon. 



Aphriza Audubon, Orn. Biog., V, 1839, 249. Type, by monotypy, 

 Aphriza townsendi Audubon = Tringa virgata Gmelin. 



Aphriza virgata (Gmelin). Surf-bird. [282.] 



Tringa virgata Gmelin, Syst. Nat., I, Ft. ii, 1789, 674. Based on the 

 Streaked Sandpiper Latham, General Synops., Ill, ISO. (in sinu 

 Sandwich = Prince WilHam Sound, Alaska.) 



Range. — Breeds on the Alaska Mountains in south-central Alaska (Mt. 

 McKinley Park and Forty-mile River system) . Winters more or less regularly 

 on the Queen Charlotte Islands, Vancouver Island, and the coast of southern 

 Alaska, and thence south as a transient winter visitant to Chile and the Straits 

 of Magellan. 



Subfamily ARENARIINAE. Turnstones. 



Genus ARENARIA Brisson. 



Arenaria Brisson, Orn., 1760, I, 48; V, 132. Type, by tautonymy, 

 Arenaria Brisson = Tringa interpres Linnaeus. 



• Arenaria interpres interpres (Linnaeus). European Turnstone. [283.] 



Tringa Interpres Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, I, 1758, 148. (in Europa 

 & America septentrionali = Gotland, Sweden.) 



Range. — Breeds from western Greenland and Iceland through Arctic 

 Europe and Asia to Kamchatka. Winters on the coasts of Europe and Asia to 

 South Africa. Accidental in Massachusetts (Monomoy Island, September 8, 

 1892).! 



Arenaria interpres morinella (Linnaeus). Ruddy Turnstone. [283a.] 



Tringa Morinella Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., ed. 12, I, 1766, 249. Based 

 mainly on The Turn-Stone, Morinellus marinus Catesby, Carolina, I, 

 72. (ad maris littora Americae septentrionalis; & Europae = coast of 

 Georgia.) 



Range. — Breeds from western and northern Alaska to Southampton and 

 western Baffin islands. Winters from central California, Texas, Louisiana, 

 Mississippi, and North Carolina to southern Brazil and central Chile ; occurs in 

 migration over North America in general and individuals linger all summer on 

 mainland beaches and on Laysan and other Pacific islands. Accidental on the 

 Andaman Islands.^ 



1 Bishop, Auk, XXIII, 1906, .33.5. 



^ Turnstones of islands in Bering Sea are intermediate between the two forms 

 and represent A. i. oahuensis Bloxham which is sometimes recognized as dis- 

 tinct. 



