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Adult male.— ^Ymg, 139.5-155 (145.5); tail, 56.5-64 (60); exposed 

 culmen, 21-22.5 (21.7); tarsus, 22.5-26 (24.5); middle toe, 21-23 

 (21.8).« 



Adult fe7nale.— Wing, 144-157.5 (148.6); tail, 57-63 (60.4); ex- 

 posed culmen, 21.5-24 (22.9); tarsus, 23-25.5 (24.5); middle toe, 

 20.5-24 (22).^ 



Breeding in Arctic America, from Mackenzie River basin to Melville 

 Island (and, probably, Melville Peninsula); in migration southward 

 over North America in general (except Pacific coast), chiefly along 

 Atlantic coast, and through West Indies, Bermudas, Gulf coast of 

 Mexico and Caribbean coast of Central America to Brazil (coast of 

 Piauhy; Sao Paulo; Santa Catarina; Bahia; Cajutuba). Rather fre- 

 quent, during migration, in Mississippi Valley and Great Lakes region, 

 but rare (accidental or casual) on Pacific coast (Sunset Beach, Orange 

 County, California, 1 spec, Sept. 20, 1907). 



[Tringa] morinella Linn^us, Syst. Nat., ed. 12, i, 1766, 249 (coast of Florida; based 

 on Turnstone or Sea-Dotterel, Morinellus marinus, Catesby, Nat. Hist. Caro- 

 lina, i, 1731, 72, pi. 72).— Gmelin, Syst. Nat., i, ii, 1789, 671. 



Armaria morinella Palmer (W.), Fur Seals and Fur Islands of North Pacific Ocean, 

 pt. iii, 1899 (Avifauna Pribilof Islands), 412-418 (crit.; descr.). — Allen, Auk, 

 xviii, 1901, 173 (reprint Palmer's descr.). — American Ornithologists' 

 Union Committee, Auk. xviii, 1901 (Tenth Suppl. to Check List), 297. — 

 Fleming, Auk, xxiii, 1906, 452 (Toronto, Ontario, regular migrant). — Tav- 

 erner and Swales, Wilson Bull., no. 60, 1907, 90 (Point Pelee, Ontario, 

 regular migrant). — Willett, Condor, x, 190S, 50 (Sunset Beach, Orange Co., 

 California, 1 spec, Sept. 20, 1907). 



Arenaria inierpres morinella American Ornithologists' Union Committee, 

 Auk, XXV, July, 1908, 368; Check List, 3rd ed., 1910, 131.— Cory, Pub. 137, 

 Field Mus. N. H., 1909, 197 (Aruba, Dutch West Indies).— Bunker, Kansas 

 Univ. Bull., vii, 1913, 145 (Greenwood Co., Kansas, Oct. 1, 1911). — Visher, 

 Auk, XXX, 1913, 567 (Sanborn Co., South Dakota, flock. May 30, 1905).— Hull, 

 Auk, xxxi, 1914, 399 (Lincoln Park, Chicago, Sept. 7; feeding habits). — ^Wet- 

 more, Bull. 326, U. S. Dept. Agric, 1916, 40 (Porto Rico, winter visitant; 

 food). — Brooks, Auk, xxxiv, 1917, 37 (Sumas Lake, Brit. Columbia, Ispec, 

 Aug. 19, 1899). 



Morinella interpres morinella Mathews, Birds Australia, iii, pt. 1, April 2, 1913, 

 10 (e. North America).— Brooks, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., lix, 1915, 376 

 (Camden Bay, Griffin Point, and Demarcation Point, Arctic coast of Alaska, 

 June 5 and 28 and July 31). 



Cinclus morinellus Gray, List Gen. Birds, 2d ed., 1841, 85. 



Tringa hudsonica Muller, Natursyst., Anhang, 1776, 114 (based on Turnstone 

 from Hudson's Bay Edwards, Nat. Hist. Birds, iii, 1750, 141, pi. 141). 



Tringa . . . interpres (not of Linnajus, 1758) Forster, Philos. Trans., ixii, 1772, 

 412 (Severn River, Keewatin). 



Tringa interpres Boddaert, Tabl. PI. Enl., 1783, 21 (PI. Enl., pi. 340), 52, part (PI. 

 Enl., pi. 857).— Wilson, Am. Orn., vii, 1813, 32, pi. 57, fig. 1. 



[Tringa] interpres Latham, Index Orn., ii, 1790, 738, part ("America-''). 



T[ringa] interpres Bonaparte, Jour. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., v, pt. i, 1825, 95 

 (crit.); Obs. Nomencl. Wilson's Am. Orn., 1826, [177]. 



« Ten specimens. ^ Eleven specimens. 



