856 BULLETIN UNITED STATES GEOLOGICAL SURVEY. [Yol.Y. 



1861. CoUES, E. A Monograph of the Tringeae of North America. <^ Proc. Acad.Nai. 

 Sci. Phila., xiii, 1861, pp. 170-20.5. 



Tills papei- becomes somewhat conspicuous in tlie literature of Scolopacidce, owing to the 

 fact that we have no great monographs or iconographies in this family of birds. It i.s the 

 "maiden" effort of a very youthful author, who appears to have been too timid and too inex- 

 perienced to do any very brilliant blundering. On this account we may perhaps justify Dr. 

 Sclater's very generous mention of M.r. Coues's as a "name new to ornithologists, but not 

 the less heartily welcome as that of a recruit to our ranks, who begins by fighting his first 

 fight well, and against a very hard subject" {Ibis, 1862, p. 84). We may add on our own 

 account that no material modification of the specific determinations of IN'orth American Sand- 

 pipers has since been made. Two or three additional species have since been ascertained to 

 inhabit this country; but otherwise, the species stand very nearly as Mr. Coues left them 

 twenty years ago. The following genera and species are treated, with synonymy, diagnosis, 

 description, Ijabitat, and general criticism : 



1. Micropalama himantopus (Bj).) BA. 2. Sreuneies pusillus CL.) Cass. H. Tringa canutus 

 li. 4. Calidrig arenaria (L.) 111. 5. Arquatella maritima {Brunji.) Bd. 6. Ancyloeheilus suh- 

 arquata (Giild.) Kaup. 7. Pelldna americana (Cass.) Coues. (P. pacifica, Coues, n. sp. 

 prob., p. 189.) 8. Actodromas minutilla (V.) Coues. 9. Aetodromas bairdii Cones, n. sp., p. 

 194. 10. Actodromas maculata {Y .) Cass. 11. Actodromas {JEeteropijgia sive Delopygia. anhg. 

 n., p. 190) ftonapartei (Schl.) Cass. 12. Actodroinas (Heteropygia) eoo2}eri (Bd.) Coaes. Three 

 species attributed to Xorth America by other authors are noticed and discarded : Actodro- 

 mas minuta ; A. temminckii ; Limicola pygmcea. The new species, A. bairdi, has been con- 

 sidered invalid by Schlegel, who evidently knew nothing about it. The specific distinction 

 of Pelldna americana from P. alpina is very questionable, and not now generally conceded. 



The Sandpipers ascribed to Korth America since the appearance of this monograph are 

 the following: 1. Ereunetes occidentalis Lawr., Pr. Phila. Acad., 1864, p. 107; doubtfully 

 distinct from -B. pusillus. 2. Tringa ptilocnemis Coues, Elliott's Rep. Pribylov Islands, 4to, 

 1873, not paged; this is T. erasirostris Dall, Am,. Nat, viii, 1873, p. 635, and T. gracilis Hart- 

 ing, P. Z. S., 1874, p. 242, pi. 40. It has proved to be an Arquatella. and very near A. mari- 

 tima. 3. Arquatella couesi, Eidgw., IjuU. Nutt. Ornith. Club, v, 1880, p. 160. 



No second second specimen of Tringa cooperi has ever come to light. The new species of 

 this paper, A. bairdii, has proved to be a very common buxl of Xorth and South America, 

 before confounded with bonapartii, from which it is utterly different. It may have had a 

 prior name, but none .such has been established. The suggested " Pelidna pacifica" has 

 never been confirmed. The races of Ereunetes remarked upon have not since been recog- 

 nized and are doubtless invalid. Dr. Coues and some others have since adopted Vieillot's 

 name,/KScifoHi«, for what is here called bonapartii ; but the applicability of the name to this 

 species seems doubtful. — W. S. 



1861. "C. W." Die Kampfhiihne [Machetes pngnax, iu Gefaugenschaft]. . . . 



< Zool. Gart., ii, 1861, p. 116. 



1861. Gadamer, H. Das Balzen von Scolopax rusticnla. <^ J.f. 0., ix, 1861, p. 217. 



1861. Glogeu, C. W. L. Das Balzeu von Scolopax rusticnla hetreffeud. <[ J.f. 0., 



ix, 1861, pp. 289, 290. 



1862. Barclay, W. L. Occurrence of the Green Sandpiper [Totanus ochropus] at 



Leyton. < Zoologist, xx, 1862, p. 7939. 

 1862. Blake-Knox, H. The Common Sandpiper [Tringoides hypoleucus] a Diver. 



< Zoologist, XX, 1862, pp. 8195, 8196. 



1862. Blakiston, T. Occurrence of the Knot [Tringa canutus J in Lancashire in Au- 

 gust, and its Eastern Range. <^ Zoologist, xx, 1862, p. 8287. 



1862. Bond. F. Note on Sahine's Snipe [Gallinago sabini]. <i Zoologist, :kx, 1862,]}. 

 8000. 



1862. BOKD, F. Jack Snipe [plumage of Gallinago gallinula]. <^ Zoo?0(/Js^, xx, 1862, 



p. 8000. 

 1862. Gatcombe, J. Variety of Snipe [ZooL, p. 4704]. < Zoologist, xx, 1862, pp. 7938, 



7939. 

 1862. Gatco.mbe, J. Note on Sahine's Snipe [Gallinago sahinii]. <^ Zoologist, xx, 



1862, p. 8035. 

 1862. Green, G. C. The- Sandpiper [Tringoides hypoleucus] a Diver. <^ Zoologist, 



XX, 1862, p. 8283. 



