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Newfoundland, Mingan and Anticosti islands. Winters from central Cali- 

 fornia (casually Washington), southern Arizona, Texas, Louisiana, South 

 Carolina (casually North Carolina) south to Patagonia; rare on the Canadian 

 prairies. Occasional at all times of year (non-breeding birds) in the West 

 Indies, Bahamas, Florida, Texas, and California, and in Bermuda in migration; 

 accidental in Greenland and the British Isles. 



Tetanus flavipes (Gmelin). Lesser Yellow-legs. [255.] 



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

 Yellowshank Pennant, Arct. Zool., II, 468. (auctumno in Nove- 

 boraco = New York.) 



Range. — Breeds from Kotzebue Sound and the upper Yukon Valley, Alaska, 

 northern Mackenzie, northern Manitoba, and northern Quebec (Ungava) to 

 northern British Columbia, Alberta, and southern Manitoba. Formerly 

 reported to breed casually south to Illinois, Indiana, and New York. Winters 

 in Argentina, Chile, and Patagonia, and casually in Mexico, Louisiana, 

 Florida, and the Bahamas. Migrates mainly east of the Rocky Mountains 

 but occurs in the Pribilof Islands, California, Lower California, Bermuda, and 

 Greenland; rare in spring on the Atlantic coast; accidental in Great Britain. 



• Tetanus totanus robustus Schioler. Iceland Redshank. [253.1.] 



Totanus calidris robustus Schioler, Dansk Orn. Foren. Tidsskr., XIII, 

 1919, 211. (Iceland.) 



Range. — Breeds in Iceland and possibly the Faroes. Wmters in the 

 British Isles and on the coasts of western Europe to Morocco. Casual in 

 Greenland.^ [Closely allied races occur throughout Europe and in eastern 

 Asia.] 



Subfamily CALIDRIDIINAE. Sandpipers, Godwits, and Allies. 



Genus CALIDRIS Anonymous. 



Calidris Anonymous, Allgem. Lit.-Zeitung, II, No. 168, June 8, 1804, 

 col. 542. Type, by tautonymy, Tnnga calidris Gmelin = Tringa 

 canutus Linnaeus. 



Calidris canutus rufus (Wilson). American Knot. [234.] 



Tringa rufa Wilson, Amer. Orn., VII, 1813, 43 (pi. 57, fig. 5). (Middle 

 Atlantic States = New Jersey.) 



Range. — Breeds from northern Ellesmere Island east to northern Greenland 

 and west to southeastern Victoria Island, possibly to Point Barrow, Alaska; 

 migrates along both coasts of North America and through Alberta. Winters in 



1 Helms, Birds Angmagsalik, 1926, 245. 



