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PISOBIA MELANOTOS (Vieillot) 



Pectobal Sandpiper 



Tringa melanotos Vieillot, Nouv. Diet. d'Hist. Nat., nouv. M., vol. 34, p. 462, 



1819 (Paraguay). 

 Pisoim maculata, Bailet, Condor, vol. 28, p. 31. 1926. 



The only published record for St. Lawrence Island is Bailey's 

 observational one. He saw some pectoral sandpipers there on July 

 29. The Harriman Expedition, however, obtained a female specimen 

 on the island on July 13, 1899. 



PELIDNA ALPINA SAKHALINA (Vieillot) 



Red-backed Sandpipeb 



Bcolopaw sakhaUna Vieillot, Nouv. Diet. d'Hist. Nat., nouv. 6d., vol. 3, p. 359, 



1816 (en Russie= Sakhalin Island, Okhotsk Sea). 

 Pelidna alpina americana, Nej^son, Birds of Bering Sea, etc., Cruise of the 



Concin, p. 88, 1883. 

 Pelidna alpinu pacifica; Pelidna alpina sakhalina, Bailey, Condor, vol. 28, 



p. 33, 1926. 

 Pelidna alpina sakhalina, Beooks, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool. vol. 59, p. 386, 1915. 



Nelson found this bird to be common on St. Lawrence Island. 

 The Harriman Expedition obtained three examples on July 13, 1899. 

 Bailey noted several pairs there the first week in July, " where they 

 were no doubt breeding, as specimens we took had their sex organs 

 well developed." Brooks saw, but did not collect, this species, during 

 the latter part of June, 1913. 



EREUNETES PUSILLUS (Linnaeus) 



Semipalmated Sandpipeb 



Tringa pusilla Linnaeus, Systema naturae, ed. 12, vol. 1, p. 252, 1766 (based 

 on La Petite Alouette de mer de S. Domingue. Oinclus Dominicensis minor, 

 Brisson, Oruithologie, vol. 5, p. 222: In Domin go = Santo Domingo, West 

 Indies). 



Ereunetes piisiUvs, Nelson, Birds of Bering Sea, etc.. Cruise of the Corioin, 

 p. 88, 1883. 



According to Nelson, the semipalmated sandpiper is a common 

 summer resident on St. Lawrence Island. 



EREUNETES MAURII Cabanis 



Western Sandpiper 



Ereunetes Mauri Cabanis, Journ. f. Orn., Nov., 1856, p. 419, 1857 (Cuba). 

 Ereunetes occidentalis, Nelson, Report upon natural history collections made 

 in Alaska, p. 114, 1887. 



