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Adult male. —Wing, 241-267 (251.7): tail, 96-107 (lOO.Q); culmen, 

 64-75 (69.1); greatest depth of bill, 12-13 (12.4): tarsus, 46-51.5 

 (48.8); middle toe, 38-45 (40.8).'^ 



Adult female. —Wing, 251-268 (257.1); taU, 91.5-106 (101.9); 

 culmen, 70-83 (75.6); greatest depth of bill, 12-14 (12.8); tarsus, 

 45-53 (49.2); middle toe, 38.5-43 (40.3).^ 



Pacific coast of North America, from Lower California northward, 

 and across through iUeutian chain to Kuril Islands, Japan; breeding 

 from Aleutian Islands (Amchitka, Agattu, Attu, Atka, K3'ska, and 

 Semichi islands) eastward and southward to Santa Barbara and Santa 

 Cruz islands, California, and Los Coronados Islands, Lower California; 

 winters from southern British Columbia to Lower California (San 

 Martin Island; Todos Santos Island; San Geronimo Island; San 

 Quentin Bay; La Paz). 



[Scolopax] nigra (not Scolopax niger Meuschen, 1787 c) Gmelin, Syst. Nat., i, pt. 

 ii, 1789, 659 (islands between northern Asia and America, i. e., Aleutian 

 Islands; based on Black Snipe Pennant, Arctic Zool., ii, 1785, 469; Latham, 

 Synopsis Birds, iii, pt. i, 163). — Latham, Index Orn., ii, 1790, 723. — Turton, 

 Syst. Nat., i, 1806, 395. 



Hsematopus niger (not of Temminck, 1820 <^) Pallas, Zoogr. Kosso-Asiat., ii, 1826, 

 131 (Kuril Islands; Kadiak). — Cassin, in Baird, Rep. Pacific R. R. Surv., 

 ix, 1858, 700. — Baird, Cat. N. Am. Birds, 1859, no. 513. — Swinhoe, Proc. 

 Zool. Soc. Lond., 1863, 311 (Kuril Islands).— Schleg el, Mus. Pays-Bas, iv, no. 

 29 (Cursores), 1865, 76, part.— Brown, Ibis, 1868, 424 (Vancouver Island).— 

 Dall. and Bannister, Trans. Chicago Ac. Sci., i, 1869, 290 (Sitka; Kodiak). — 

 Dall, Proc. Calif. Ac. Sci., v, 1873, 28, 274 (Aleutian Islands).— Coues, 

 Check List, 1873, no. 405; 2d ed., 1882, no. 597.— Henshaw, Rep. Orn. Spec. 

 Wheeler's Surv., 1876, 270 (Santa Cruz Island, California, June; habits, etc.) — 

 Streets, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., no. 7, 1877, 17 (San Martin Island, Lower 

 California).— RiDGWAY, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., iii, 1880, 198 (Cat. N. Am. 



O' Eleven specimens. 



b Ten specimens. 



Locality. 



Great- 

 est 

 depth 

 of bill. 



Tarsus 



Middle 

 toe. 



MALES. 



Four adult males from Alaska 



One adult male from British Columbia. . 



Three adult males from Washington 



Three adult males from Lower Calilornia 



FEMALES. 



Five adult females from Alaska 



Two adult females from Washington 



One adult female from Cahfornia 



Two adult females from Lower California 



12.5 

 12.5 



12.8 

 12.3 



13 



12.7 

 13 

 12.7 



49.7 

 48.5 

 48.8 

 47.7 



48 



50 



51 



(52) 



42.6 

 40 

 41 

 38.2 



40.8 

 38.7 

 40 

 (41) 



<= Unidentified and (according to Dr. Richmond) probably unidentifiable. 

 d =H. moquini Bonaparte, of Africa. 



