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southern Texas; also in Asia from China and Japan to the Malay Archipelago.^ 

 [Allied races of P. alpina occur in central Europe.] 



Genus LIMNODROMUS Wied. 



Limnodromus Wied, Beitr. Naturg. Brasil, IV, Abth. ii, 1833, 716. Type, 

 by monotypy, Scolopax grisea Gmelin. 



Limnodromus griseus grfseus (Gmelin). Eastern Dowitcher. [231.] 



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

 Brown Snipe Pennant, Arct. Zool., II, 464. (in Noveboraci maritimis 

 = Long Island, New York.) 



Range.— Breeds from central Alberta to the west side of Hudson Bay, 

 Churchill, and northward. Winters from Florida (casually North Carolina) 

 and the West Indies, south to central Brazil and Peru; migrates regularly on the 

 Atlantic coast of the United States and less abundantly in the interior and on 

 the Pacific. Casual in the Canadian maritime provinces and accidental in 

 Greenland, Alaska, Idaho, Bermuda, the British Isles, and France; occasional 

 in summer (non-breeding birds) on the coasts of Virginia and North Carolina. 



Limnodromus griseus scolopaceus (Say). Long-billed Dowitcher. [232.] 



Limosa scolopacea Say, in Long, Exped. Rocky Mts., I, 1823, 170. (near 

 Boyer Creek = Council Bluffs, Iowa.) 



Range. — Breeds from Point Barrow to the mouth of the Yukon, east to 

 northwestern Mackenzie. Winters from Louisiana, Florida, central Cali- 

 fornia, Cuba, Jamaica, and Mexico south to Panama and Ecuador; in migration 

 on the Pacific coast and in western Mississippi Valley; occasional in summer 

 (non-breeding birds) south to western Ecuador. Casual on the Atlantic coast 

 from Nova Scotia (Sable Island) southward, and on the northern coast of 

 eastern Siberia south to Japan. 



Genus MICROPALAMA Baird. 



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

 Surv. R. R. Pac, IX, 1858, xxii, xlvii, 714, 726. Type, by orig. desig., 

 Tringa hirnantopus BoNAPviRTE. 



Micropalama himantopus (Bonaparte). Stilt Sandpiper. [233.] 



Tringa himantopus Bonaparte, Ann. Lye. Nat. Hist. N. Y., II, 1826, 157. 

 (Long Branch, New Jersey.) 



Range. — Breeds from near the mouth of the Mackenzie to Coronation Gulf 

 and Hudson Bay (Churchill) . Winters in South America south to Uruguay 



1 The American bird has been regarded by some as distinct from that of 

 Asia, under the name P. a. pacifica Coues. 



