BIRDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 



121 



Adult male. —Wing, 122.5-138 (127.8); tail, 56.5-67 (59.8) ; culmen, 

 12-15 (13.7); tarsusj 23-27 (24.7); middle toe, 16-18 (16.8)." 



Adult female.— Wing, 129-132 (130.5); tail, 61-63 (62); culmen, 

 14-16 (15); tarsus, 24.5; middle toe, 16-17 (16.5)." 



Breeding from head of Cumberland Gulf (western shore), Smith 

 Sound (Buchanan Strait, lat. 74° 48' N.), Greenland (Disko Island; 

 Port Kennedy; Lichtenfels; Prince Regent's Inlet; Hecla Cove), 

 Iceland, British Islands (including Faroes and Shetlands), Norvs'ay, 

 etc., to Turkestan and eastern Siberia (Nijni Kolymsk; Gichiga; 

 Marcova), northward to Spitzbergen and Seven Islands (lat. 81 §° 

 N.); winters on shores of Mediterranean Sea and throughout Africa, 

 including Madeira and Canary Islands; occasional in northwestern 

 India and accidental in Barbados (Chancery Lane, Sept. 10), Chile, 

 and southern Alaska (Sitka). 



[Charadrius] Maticula Linn^us, Sj^st. Nat., ed. 10, i, 1758, 150 (Sweden); ed. 12, 

 i, 1766, 253, pcart.— Gmelin, Syst. Nat., i, pt. ii, 1789, 683, part.— Latham, 

 Index Orn., ii, 1790, 743, part.— Turton, Syst. Nat., i, 1806, 411.— Rein- 

 HARDT (J.), Journ. fiir Orn., 1854, 440 (Greenland).— Gray, Hand-list, iii, 

 1871, 15, no. 9998. 



Charadrius hiaticula Vieillot, Nouv. Diet. d'Hist. Nat., xxvii, 1818, 139. — Roux, 

 Orn. Prov., 1825, pi. 275.— Werner, Atlas, Coureurs, 1827, pi. 7.— Fox, 

 Newc. Mus., 1827, 90.— Lesson, Traits d'Orn., 1831, 544.— Naumann, Vog. 

 Deutschl., ^^i, 1833, 291, pi. 175.— Gould, Birds Europe, iv, 1837, pi. 296 

 and text. — Hay, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1840, 135 (Tangier?, .Morocco) .— 

 Macgillivray, Man. Brit. Orn., ii, 1840, 52; Brit. Birds, iv, 1850, 116.— Selys- 

 Longchamps, Faune Beige, 1842, 120. — Yarrell, Brit. Birds, ii, 1843,401. — 

 Frazer, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1844, 67 (Tripoli). — Schlegel, Rev. Grit., 

 ,1844, 83; Vog. Nederl., 1854, pi. 213; Dier. Nederl. Vogels, 1861, pi. 21, figs. 

 5, 6; Mus. Pays-Bas, iv, no. 29 (Cursores), 1865, 26.— Hewitson, Eggs Brit. 

 Birds, ii, 1846, 255, pi. 69, figs. 1, 2. — Thienemann, Abbild. Vogeleieren, 

 1845-56, pi. 59.— Holm, Naturliist. Tidsskr., 2nd ser., ii, 1848, 483 (Faroe 

 Islands). — Thompson, Birds Ireland, ii, 1850, 96. — ^W^olley, Jardine's 

 Contr. Orn., 1850, 108 (Faroe Islands, breeding). — Strickland, Proc. Zool. 



o Fifteen specimens. 



b Two specimens. 



Locality. 



Wiug. 



Tail. 



Middle 

 toe. 



MALES. 



One adult male from Russia 



One adult male from Norway 



Four adult males from England 



One adult male from France 



One adult male from Spain 



One adult male from Italy 



Two adult males from eastern Siberia 



Two adult males from head of Cumberland Gulf 

 Two adult (males) from Greenland 



FEMALES. 



One adult female from England 



One adult female from France 



124 



130.5 



131.7 



125.5 



128.5 



122.5 



127 



124.5 



127.7 



132 

 129 



59 



62.5 



63.6 



58 



58 



57 



59 



56.7 



58.5 



63 

 61 



17.5 



16.5 



17.2 



17 



16.5 



16.5 



17 



16.5 



16.2 



