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Adult male.—Wing, 211-233 (220.7); tail, 94-120 (106); ciilmen, 

 23-27.5 (24.6); tarsus, 43.5-50.5 (46.8); middle toe, 25-28 (26).« 



Adult female. —Wing, 212-225 (219.3); tail, 100-108 (105) ; culme:i, 

 23.5-26 (24.8); tarsus, 42-49.5 (45.1); middle toe, 25-27 (25.8).^ 



Breeding in extratropical Europe and Asia, southward to central 

 Europe and China; in winter southward to northern Africa and 

 India; casual in Greenland (Fiskenaesset, Jan. 7, 1820; Julians- 

 haab, 1847), Newfoundland (White Hills, Nov. 23, 1905), Nova 

 Scotia (Ketch Harbor, March 17, 1897), Long Island, New York 

 (Merrick, 2 specs., Dec, 1885; Meccox Bay, Waterville, autumn, 

 1905), Bahamas (Hog Island, Nov., 1900), Barbados (Dec. 24, 1886), 

 and western Alaska (small islands in Norton Sound). 



[Tringa] vanellus Linn.eus, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, i, 1758, 148 (Sweden); ed. 12, i, 

 176G, 248.— BoDDAERT, Tabl. PI. Enl., 1783, 15 (PI. Enl., pi. 242).— Gmelin, 

 Syst. Nat., i, pt. ii, 1789, 670.— Latham, Index Orn., ii, 1790, 726. 



Tringa vanellus Temminck, Cat. Syst., 1807, 172. 



Clharachius] vanellus Wagler, Syst. Av., 1827, Charadrius, sp. 47. 



Charadrius vanellus Pallas, Zoogr. Rosso-Asiat., ii, 1826, 132. — Naumann, Vog. 

 Deutschl., ix, 1838, 269, pi. 179.— Holm, Naturahist. Tidsskr., 2d aer., ii, 

 1848, 512 (Faroe Islands).— Passler, Journ. fiir Orn., 1856, 61 (Anhalt, 

 Germany). — Seebohm, Ibis, 1882, 222 (Astraklian), 425 (Samarcand). 



Vanellus vanellus American Ornithologists' Union, Check List, 1886, and 

 2d ed., 1895, no. 269; 3d ed., 1910, p. 126.— Butcher, Auk, iii, 1886, 438 

 (Merrick, Long Island, 2 specs., late Dec, 1883). — Cory, Birds West Ind., 

 1889, 297 (Barbados); Cat. West Ind. Birds, 1892, 138.— Elliot, N. Am. 

 Shore Birds, 1895, 163, pi. 52.— Sharps, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xxiv, 1896, 

 166, 735.— Piers, Auk, xv, 1898, 195 (Ketch Harbor, Nova Scotia, 1 spec, 

 March 17, 1897).— Fleming, Auk, xviii, 1901, 272 (Hog Island, Bahamas, 

 1 spec, Nov., 1900).— Hartert, Novit. Zool., viii, 1901, 306 (Canary 

 Islands). — Pogge, Journ. fiir Orn., 1902, 386 (n. e. China). — Hartert and 

 Grant, Novit. Zool., xii, 1905, 103 (San Miguel, Azores). — Clark (A. H.), 

 Proc Bost. Soc. N. H., xxxii, 1905, 248 (Barbados).— Beebe, Auk, xxiii, 

 1906, 221 (Meccox Bay, Waterville, Long Island, 1 spec, fall 1905).— Brew- 

 ster, Auk, xxiii, 1906, 221 (White Hills, Newfoundland, 1 spec, Nov. 23, 

 1905). 



V[anellus] vanellus Ridgway, Man. N. Am. Birds, 1887, 172. 



[Vanellus] vanellus Lichtenstein, Nom. Av. Mus. Berol., 1854, 95. — Sharpe, 

 Hand-list, i, 1899, 151. — Forbes and Robinson, Bull. Liverp. Mus., ii, 

 no. 2, 1899, 65. 



a Eleven specimens. 



'' Seven specimens. 



