118 CHECK-LIST OF NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 



South America south to Patagonia and rarely on the coasts of South Carolina 

 and Florida, occasionally north to New England; small numbers have been 

 found throughout the summer on the coasts from Virginia to Florida. [A 

 closely allied race occurs in Europe and may breed in eastern Greenland.] ^ 



• Calidris tenuirostris (Horsfield). Eastern Asiatic Knot. [234.1.] 



Totanus tenuirostris Horsfield, Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond., XIII, Ft. i, 

 May, 1821, 192. (Java.) 



Range. — Breeds in Siberia, China, and Japan. South to Australia and 

 India in winter. Accidental at Cape Prince of Wales, Alaska (May 28, 1922) .^ 



Genus ARQUATELLA Baird. 



Arquatella Baird, in Baird, Cassin and Lawrence, Rep. Expl. and Surv. 

 R. R. Pac, IX, 1858, xxii, xlvii, 714, 717. Type, by monotypy, Tringa 

 maritima BRtJNNicH. 



Arquatella maritima (BRtiNNicn). Purple Sandpiper. [235.] 



Tringa Maritima Brtjnnich, Orn. Borealis, 1764, 54. (E Christiansoe & 

 Norvegia = Christiansoe Island, Denmark.) 

 Range, — Summers and probably breeds from Melville Island, northern 

 EUesmere Island, and northern Greenland south to southern Baffin Island and 

 south Greenland; also in Spitzbergen, Franz Josef Land, Novaya Zemlya, 

 Norway, Russia, Siberia, Iceland, and the Faroe Islands. Winters from 

 southern Greenland and New Brunswick to New York (Long Island), and 

 casually to southern New Jersey, and in the Old World to the British Isles, 

 northern Azores, the Mediterranean and Baltic seas. Casual in migration to 

 the Great Lakes, Missouri, Georgia, Florida, and Bermuda. 



Arquatella ptilocnemis ptilocnemis (Coues). Pribilof Sandpiper. [2356.] 



Tringa ptilocnemis Coues, in Elliott, Rep. Seal Isl. Alaska, 1873 (not 

 paged). (St. George Island, Pribilof Islands.) 

 Range. — Breeds on St. Lawrence, St. Matthew, and the Pribilof Islands. 

 Winters on the coast of southeastern Alaska near Lynn Canal; wanders in 

 migration north to Norton Sound and southwest to Unalaska. 



Arquatella ptilocnemis couesi Ridgway. Aleutian Sandpiper. [235a.] 



Arquatella couesi Ridgway, Bull. Nuttall Orn. Club, V, No. 3, July, 1880, 



160. (Aleutian Islands and coast of Alaska = Attn Island, Aleutian 



Islands.) 



Range. — Breeds on the Aleutian and Shumagin islands and at Cape Prince 



of Wales, Alaska. Winters on its breeding range and also along the Pacific 



coast south to Oregon. 



1 Riley refers Alaskan birds to the Asiatic race, C. c. rodgersi Mathews, cf. 

 Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., LIV, 1918, 614. 



2 Bailey, Condor, 1924, 195. 



