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Adult male.— Wing, 164-183 (170.9); tail, 63-69 (65.2); exposed 

 culmen, 23.5-26 (24.2); tarsus, 29-30.5 (29.6); middle toe, 23-24.5 

 (23.9).« 



Adult female.— Wing, 169-181 (176); tail, 64-66 (65); exposed 

 culmen, 23-26 (24.9); tarsus, 29-31.5 (30.5); middle toe, 23-26 (24).^ 



Pacific coast of America, from Kotzebue Sound, Alaska, to Straits 

 of Magellan (Van Island, Feb. 13); breeding range unknown, but 

 probably interior of northwestern Alaska ; in migration, from Kowak 

 Iliver and Kotzebue Sound along coast of Alaska (S^. Michaels 

 Sannak Island; Kadiak Island; Kuiu Island; Prince William Sound 

 Sitka, July 21), British Columbia (Vancoilver Island; Orcas Island 

 Quatrino, July 31) and Washington to Oregon (Yacjuina Bay, April 

 25); winders from Monterey, California (Jan. 31) southward. 



[Tringa] virgata Gmelin, Syst. Nat., i, pt. ii, 1789, 674 ("Sandwich Sound " = 

 Prince William Sound, Alaska; based on Streaked Sandpiper Latham, Gen. 

 Synop. Birds, iii, pt. i, 1785, 180). — Latham, Index Orn., ii, 1790, 735.— 

 TuRTON, Syst. Nat., i, 1806, 405. 



Aphriza virgata Gray, Gen. Birds, iii, 1847, pi. 147 (winter plumage). — Cassin, in 

 Baird, Rep. Pacific R. R. Siurv., ix, 1858, 698.— Baird, Cat. N. Am. Birds, 

 1859, no. 511.— ScLATER, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1859, 236 (Vancouver 

 Island); 1867, 339 (Chile).— Brown, Ibis, 1868, 424 (Vancouver Island).— 

 DALLand Bannister, Trans. Chicago Ac. Sci., i, 1869, 290 (Sitka).— Orton, 

 Am. Nat., iv, 1871, 716 (type of A. toiunsendi Audubon in coll. Vassar Col- 

 lege). — CouEs, Check List, 1873, no. 403; 2d ed., 1882, no. 594. — Lawrence, 

 Mem. Bost. Soc. N. H., ii, 1874, 307 (Colima, w. Mexico). — Ridgway, Proc. 

 U. S. Nat. Mus., iii, 1880, 198 (Cat. N. Am. Birds, no. 511); Norn. N. Am. 

 Birds, 1881, no. 511.— Sharpe, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1881, 15 (Van Island, 

 Straits Magellan); Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xxiv, 1896, 208 (St. Michaels, Alaska; 

 Orcas Island and Vancouver Island, Brit. Columbia; Chile; Van Island, 

 Straits Magellan), 739 (Vancouver Island; Lower California). — Nelson, 

 Cruise "Corwin" in 1881 (1883), 83 (St. Michaels, Alaska); Rep. N. H. 

 Coll. Alaska, 1887, 127 (Sitka; St. Michaels; descr. young). — Baird, Brewer, 



« Ten specimens. 



& Seven specimens. 



