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'f Tringa ocrophus Linnaeus. Green Sandpiper. [257.] 



Tringa Ocrophus Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., eel. 10, 1, 1758, 149. (in Europa = 

 Sweden.) 



Range. — Breeds in the northern parts of Europe and Asia. Winters from 

 southern Europe and China to southern Africa and the Malay Archipelago. 

 Accidental in Nova Scotia (Halifax). i 



Genus RHYACOPHILUS Kaup. 



Rhyacophilus Kaup, Skizz. Entw.-Gesch. Eur. Thierw., 1829, 140. Type, 

 by subs, desig., Tringa glareola Linnaeus (Gray, 1842, App., 14). 



• Rhyacophilus glareola (Linnaeus). Wood Sandpiper. [257.1.] 



Tringa Glareola Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, I, 1758, 149. (in Europa = 

 Sweden.) 



Range. — Breeds in Europe and northern Asia. South in winter to Africa, 

 India, the Malay region, and Australia. Accidental in Alaska (Sanak Island, 

 May 27, 1894;^ St. George Island, May 19, 1914),* Hawaiian Islands, and 

 Madeira. 



Genus HETEROSCELUS Baird. 



Heteroscelus Baird, in Baird, Cassin, and Lawrence, Rep. Expl. and 

 Surv. R. R. Pac, IX, 1858, xxii, xlvii, 728, 734. Type, by monotypy, 

 Totanus brevipes Vieillot. 



Heteroscelus incanus (Gmelin). Wandering Tattler. [259.] 



Scolopax incana Gmelin, Syst. Nat., I, Pt. ii, 1789, 658. Based on the 

 Ash-coloured Snipe Latham, General S^Tiops., Ill, 154. (in insulis 

 Eimeo et Palmerston = Eimeo [Moorea] Island, Society group. Pacific 

 Ocean.) 



Range. — Breeds from south-central Alaska (Mt. McKinley and Nome) to 

 east-central Yukon (Macmillan River) and south to Prince William Sound; 

 occurs west to Norton Sound and northern Siberia. Winters from southern 

 California to the Galdpagos and Ecuador, in Hawaii, Oceanica, and Australia; 

 migrating along the Pacific coast and east to Crater Lake, Oregon. 



• Heteroscelus brevipes (Vieillot). Polynesian Tattler. [259.1.] 



Totanus brevipes Vieillot, Nouv. Diet. d'Hist. Nat., nouv. ed., VI, 1816, 

 410. (Pays incormu = Timor.) 



1 Brewer, Bull. Nuttall Om. Club, III, 1878, 49. 



2 Littlejohn, Condor, VI, 1904, 138. 



3 Hanna, Auk, XXXIII, 1916, 401. 



