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Genus EROLIA Vieillot. 



Erolia Vieillot, Analyse, 1816, 55. Type, by monotypy, Erolia variegata 

 Vieillot = Scolopax testacea Pallas. 



Erolia testacea (Pallas). Curlew Sandpiper. [244.] 



Scolopax testacea Pallas, in Vroeg, Catal., 1764, Adumbr., 6. (Valt op. 

 voorn, Eyland = Holland.) 



Range. — Breeds in the Yenisei Delta and on the Taimyr Peninsula, Siberia. 

 Winters in Africa, Madagascar, India, Malay Archipelago, and Australia, 

 casually to New Zealand; in migration occurs from Great Britain to China and 

 the Philippines. Occasional in Alaska (Point Barrow), Ontario, Nova Scotia, 

 Maine, Massachusetts, New York (Long Island), and New Jersey; accidental 

 in the West Indies (Grenada and Carriacou) and in Patagonia.' 



Genus PELIDNA Cuvier. 



Pelidna Cuvier, Regne Animal, I, 1817 [Dec. 7, 1816], 490. Type, by 

 subs, desig., Tringa cinclus Linnaeus, 1766 = Tringa alpina Linnaeus, 

 1758 (Gray, 1840). 



• Pelidna alpina alpina (Linnaeus), Dunlin. [243.] 



Tringa alpina Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, I, 1758, 149. (in Lapponia 

 = Lapland.) * 



Range. — Breeds in Iceland, the British Isles, Norway, and Russia north 

 to Kolguev Island and south to Holland and northern Germany. Winters 

 from Great Britain, Holland, and the Caspian Sea to central East Africa and 

 Calcutta. Accidental in eastern North America (Massachusetts, Connecticut, 

 New York) .2 



Pelidna alpina sakhalina (Vieillot). Red-backed Sandpiper. [243a.] 



Scolopax sakhalina Vieillot, Nouv. Diet. d'Hist. Nat., nouv. ed.. Ill, 

 1816, 359. (en Russia = Sakhalin Island, Okhotsk Sea.) 



Range. — Breeds on the northern coast of Siberia west to the mouth of the 

 Yenisei and in Arctic America from the mouth of the Yukon to the Boothia and 

 Melville peninsulas south to Hudson Bay (Churchill); migrates through 

 the Great Lakes. Winters on the Pacific coast from southern British 

 Columbia to southern Lower California and from New Jersey (casually 

 Massachusetts) south on the Atlantic and Gulf coasts to Florida, Louisiana and 



1 Alaskan birds have been referred to E. chinensis Gray (Zool. Misc., 1831, 2). 



2 The resident bird of the British Isles has been separated as P. a. schinzi 

 Brehm and the breeding bird of Greenland as P. a. arciica Schi0ler. Some of 

 the stragglers to North America may have been referable to these races. 



