ART. 12 BIKDS OF ST. LAWEEXCE ISLAND FPJEDMAXN 19 



Family SCOLOPACIDAE, Snipe, Woodcock, Sandpipers 



ARQUATELLA PTILOCNEMIS PTILOCNEMIS (Coues) 



Pbibilof Sandpipbjr 



Tringa ptilocncmis Coues, in Elliott, Report oq the Seal Islands of Alaska (not 



l>agedj, 1873 (St. George Islaiul, Pribilof Islands). 

 AfQuatella ptilocncmis, Nelson, Birds of Bering Sea, etc.. Cruise of the Convin, 



p. 86, 1883.— Hanna, Condor, vol. 23, p. 51, 1921. 

 Tringa ptilocncmis NBa.soN, Report upon natural lii.story collections made in 



Alaska, p. 105, 1887. 

 Arquatellu niaritiiJia ptilocnemis, Heksey, Smithsonian Misc. Coll., vol. 66, no. 



2, p. 24, 1916. 

 Erolia maritiina ptiloc-neniis, Hautert, Die Vogel der paliiarktischen Fauna, 



vol. 2, p. 1592, 1920. 

 Arquatella ptilocnemis ptilocnemis. Bent, U. S. Nat. Mus. Bull. 142, pp. 153, 159, 



1927.— A. O. U. checklist of North American birds, ed. 4, p 118, 1931. 



Nelson found a single pair of these sandpipers on the south shore 

 of St. Lawrence Island in June, 1881. Hersey saw a few on the 

 north side of the island on July 24, 1914. Hunna overlooked Hersey's 

 note, as he thought there was but a single record for the bird for 

 St. Lawrence Island. He suspected " that the birds have some other 

 extensive breeding ground than St. George, St. Paul, and St. Mathew 

 I::lands, because in September and October large flocks came to the 

 two former i.slands; these appear to contain many more individuals 

 than are in existence on all three. Whether St. Lawrence Island 

 supplies the extra number or not remains for future determination.'' 



The Harriman Expedition obtained one male and two females on 

 July 13, 1899, and Collins got a male at Gambell in September, 1930 

 The last-mentioned specimen is in an advanced stage of molt. It is 

 a peculiar bird in that it has the darker color of couesi and the 

 larger size of ptilocnemis (wing length 128 mm.). 



AKQUATELLA PTILOCNEMIS COUESI Ridgway 



Aleutian Sandpipes 



Arquatellu couesi Ridgway, Bull. Nuttall Orn. Club, vol. 5, p. 160, July, 1880 

 (Aleutian Islands and coast of Alaska=Attu Island, Aleutian Islands). 



AiQiiatella maritima couesi. Brooks, Bull. Mus. Conip. Zool., vol. 59, p. 386, 

 1915.— Bailett, Condor, vol. 27, p. 236, 1925. 



Arquatella ptilocncmis couesi. Bent, U. S. Nat. Mus, Bull. 142, p. 166, 1927. 



Brooks noted a few at the southeast end of St. Lawrence Island 

 during June, 1912. He collected specimens, now in the Museum 

 of Comparative Zoology, at Cambridge, Mass. Bailey saw several 

 during the first week in July. 



St. Lawrence Island appears to be a meeting place of typical 

 ptilocnemis and of couesi — northern and southern races of the same 

 species, just as it is for the eastern and western forms of the golden 

 plover. 



