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(Churchill). Non-breeding migrants linger all summer from the coast of 

 Virginia to western Ecuador. Winters from Lower California to southern 

 Honduras, from Ecuador to southern Chile, and from British Guiana to the 

 mouth of the Amazon; migrates mainly along the Atlantic and Pacific coasts; 

 rarer but regular in spring in the interior. Casual on the Pribilof Islands and 

 in Greenland and Bermuda; accidental in Iceland and Spain. 



Phaeopus borealis (Forster). Eskimo Curlew. [266.] 



Scolopax borealis J. R. Forster, Philos. Trans., LXII, 1772 Art. 29, (read 

 Jime IS and 25) 431. (Fort .Albany, Hudson Bay.) 



Range. — Formerly bred on the Barren Grounds of northern Mackenzie 

 northwest perhaps to Norton Sound, Alaska. Formerly a common autumn 

 transient on the Atlantic coast from Labrador southward to New York (Long 

 Island) and northern New Jersey, thence over the ocean to South America. 

 Wintered on the plains of Argentina and Patagonia to Chile and casually the 

 Falkland Islands. Accidental or casual in northeastern Siberia, the Pribilof 

 Islands, Greenland, Iceland, and the British Isles. Now nearly or quite 

 extinct; last specimen taken in the United States near Norfolk, Neb., April 17, 

 1915; last in Argentina, Jan. 11, 1925; reported at Hastings, Neb., April 8, 1926. 



Genus BARTRAMIA Lesson. 



Bartraviia Lesson, Traite d'Orn., Livr. 7, April 9, 1831, 553. Type, by 

 monotypy, Bartramia laticauda Lesson = Tringa longicauda Bechstein. 



Bartramia longicauda (Bechstein). Upland Plover. [261.] 



Tringa longicauda Bechstein, in Latham, Allgem. Ueb. Vogel, IV, Pt. ii, 

 1812, 453. (Nordamerika.) 



Range. — Breeds from northwestern Alaska, northern Yukon, southern 

 Mackenzie, central Manitoba, central Wisconsin, southern Michigan, southern 

 Ontario, southern Quebec, and southern Maine to southern Oregon, north- 

 eastern Utah, Colorado, southern Oklahoma, southern Missouri, southern 

 Illinois, southern Indiana, and northern Virginia (casually South Carolina). 

 Winters on the pampas of South America from southern Brazil to Argentina 

 and Chile. Casual or accidental in northeastern California, Greenland, Nova 

 Scotia, New Brimswick, Bermuda, and western Europe. Rapidly becoming 

 rare. 



Genus ACTITIS Illiger. 



Aditis Illiger, Prodromus, 1811, 262. Type, by subs, desig., Tringa 

 hypoleucos Linnaeus (A. O. U. Comm., 1886). 



