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'This specimen of Mr Brewster's I have examined and the measureraent.s given are mine. The 

 measurements of the two following are quoted from Mr. Brew.ster's article in The Auk, V, p. 85. 



Family ARENARIID^. 



Genus ARENARIA, Brisson. 



Arenaria, Brisson, Orn., V, 1760, p. 132. Type, Tringa interpres, Linnaeus. 



Ramjc. — Seacoasts nearly throughout the world, breeding- in northern 

 portions of the nortliern hemisphere. Galapagos Archipelago (one 

 cosmopolitan species during migration). 



ARENARIA INTERPRES (Linnaeus). 



Tringa interpres, Linn.eui?, Sys. Nat., 10th ed., 1, 1758, p. 148. 



Arenaria interpres, Vieillot, (tuI. Ois., 11, 1834, p. 102. — Ridgway, Man. N. Anier. 

 Birds, 1887, p. 180; Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., XII, 1889. p. 116 (Hood Island, Gala- 

 pagos Archipelago). 



Strepsilas interpres, Illigkr, Prodr. Orn., 1811. ]>. 263. — Gould and Dakwin, Zool. 

 Voy. Beagle, III. Birds, 1841, p. 132 (Galapagos Archipelago). — Sclatfjj and 

 Salvin, Proc. Zool. Soc., 1870, p. 32 (Indefatigable and Biiidloo i.slands).— 

 Salvix, Trans. Zool. Soc, IX. Pt. ix, 1876, p. 502 (ludelatigahle and P.indloe 

 islands). — Baird, BuEyyEH, and Eiugway, Water Birds N. Anier., I, 1884, 

 p. 119. 



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