116 CHECK-LIST OF NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 



Range. — Shores and islands of the western Pacific and eastern Indian 

 oceans from Kamchatka to Australia, Borneo, etc. Casual on St. Paul Island, 

 Pribilof Islands, Alaska (October 4, 1911,i September 2, 1917,i September 17, 

 1919 2). 



Genus CATOPTROPHORUS Bonaparte. 



Catoptrophorus Bonaparte, Ann. Lye. Nat. Hist. N. Y., II, 1827, 323. 

 Type, by monotypy, Scolopax semipalmata Gmelin. 



Catoptrophorus semipalmatus semipalmatus (Gmelin). Eastern Willet. 



[258.] 



Scolopax semipalmata Gmelin, Syst. Nat., I, Pt. ii, 1789, 659. Based on 

 the Semipalmated Snipe Pennant, Arct. Zool., II, 469. (in Nove- 

 boraco = New York.) 



Range. — Breeds on the Atlantic coast in Nova Scotia, and from New Jersey 

 to Florida, and on the Gulf coast to Texas; also in the Bahamas and the Greater 

 Antilles. Winters from North Carolina and the Bahamas to Brazil. Acci- 

 dental in Kansas, Bermuda, and Europe. 



Catoptrophorus semipalmatus inornatus (Brewster). Western Willet. 



[258a.] 



Symphemia semipalmata inornata Brewster, Auk, IV, No. 2, April, 1887, 

 145. (Larimer County, Colorado.) 



Range. — Breeds from east central Oregon, southern Alberta, Saskatchewan, 

 and southern Manitoba to northeastern California, central Utah, central Colo- 

 rado, Nebraska, western Minnesota, and northern Iowa; casual in summer (not 

 breeding) as far south as western Ecuador. Winters from northern California 

 on the Pacific coast and from the coasts of Texas, Louisiana, and Florida to 

 Ecuador, Peru, and the Galdpagos Islands; in fall migration occurs in southern 

 Ontario and on the Atlantic coast from New England south. Accidental in 

 southwestern British Columbia and southeastern Alaska, 



Genus TOTANUS Bechstein, 



Totanus Bechstein, Orn, Taschenb. Deutschl., II, 1803, 282. Type, by 

 tautonymy, Totanus maculatus Bechstein = Scolopax totanus Linnaeus, 



Tfitanus melanoleucus (Gmelin). Greater Yellow-legs. [254.] 



Scolopax melanoleuca Gmelin, Syst. Nat., I, Pt. ii, 1789, 659, Based on 

 the Stone Snipe Pennant, Arct. Zool., II, 468. (auctumno in arenis 

 littoris Labrador = Chateaux Bay, Labrador.) 



Range, — Breeds from Mt. Iliamna, Alaska, central Alberta, southern 

 Ungava, and Labrador to southern British Columbia, southern Manitoba, 



1 Hanna, Auk, XXXVII, 1920, 250, 



2 Bent, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., No. 146, 1929, 49. 



