BIEDS OF ^TORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 



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Adult female. ~Wmg, 155-176 (166.3); tail, 57-65.5 (62.3'; ex- 

 posed culmen, 32-38 (36.3); tarsus, 29.5-33 (31.5); middle toe, 

 20-22.5 ('21.6j.^ 



Breeding in circumpolar regions (Ellesmere Land: Grinnell Land; 

 near Fort Conger, lat. 81 ^ 44': Melville Island: Melrille Peninsula: 

 Smith Sound; Greenland; Iceland: Taimyr Peninsula in Siberia, and 

 probably Xew .Siberian Islands); migrating southward ^mostly along 

 seacoasts) to southern Africa, India, Austraha, Xew Zealand, and 

 southern South America, as far as Peru (Santa Lucia) and Tierra del 

 Fuego (Cape Espiritu Santo) ; in West Indies recorded only from 

 Jamaica, Barbados, and Grenada; comparatively rare in interior of 

 North America and along Pacific coast. 



\^Tringa\canutus'Lis'iis.vs, Syst. Xat., ed. 10, i, 1758, 149 (Sweden: ex Fauna 

 Suecica, 1-50, Ray, 108,'; ed. 12, i, 1766, 251.— Gmeux, S}-Ht. Nat., i, pt. ii, 

 1789, 679.— Latham, Index Om., ii, 1790, 738.— Tuktox, Syst. Xat., i, 1806, 

 409.— Pelzelk, Om. Bras., 1870, 457.— Gray, Hand-list, iii, 1871, 48. no. 

 10300.— CouES, Key X. Am. Birds, 1872, 257.— Sclater and Salvik, Xom. 

 Av. Xeotr., 1873, 145.— Cory, List Birds West Ind., re\ised ed., 1886, 26 

 CJamaica?). — Sharpe, Hand-list, i, 1899, 164. — Forbes and Robixsok, BuH. 

 Liverp. Mus., ii, no. 2, 1899, 73 (Iceland: England; Shanghai, China . 



Trinqa camitu-s Leach, Syst. Cat. Mam., etc., Brit. Mus., 1816. 29. — Flemixg, 

 Brit. Anim., 1828 109.— Jardike, ed. Wilsons Am. Om., ii, 1832, 335, 

 pi. 57, fig. 5. — ^Jekyns, Man. Brit. Vertebr., 1835, 213. — Boxaparte, Geog. 



° Fourteen specimens. 



Localitr. 



Wing. Tai]. 



Ex- ' 

 posed ; Tarsus, 

 calmen. 



Middle 

 toe. 



Ten adult males from coast of Virginia I6i 



Four adult males from Alaska I 163 



One adult male from ilackenzie (Fort Simpson) j 174 



One adult male from France I 164 



One adult male from Japan 



One adult male from China 



163 

 162.5 



FEMALES. 



Tea adult females from Atlantic coast U. S. (Xe^ Jersey to 



South Carolina') 166 



One adult female from Alaska (Point Barrow) 166 



One adult female from England | 163 



Two adult females from France 169. 5 



61.3 



63.4 



63.5 



63 



61 



62.3 



34.3 



33.5 



33 



34.5 



31 



32 



sas 



31.1 

 34 



3a3 



30 

 31 



31.4 

 32 

 30 

 32.2 



21.4 



21.5 



23.3 



21 



21 



20 



21.7 

 22 

 20 

 21.3 



The material examined is insufficient so far as European and Asiatic specimens are 

 concerned for determining whether the species requires subdi^-ision. The few 

 European specimens and one from China are not distinguishable from specimens 

 from eastern North America: but one from Japan and all those from Alaska have the 

 cinnamon color of the underparts much deeper, and were it not that the only two 

 summer adults seen from Greenland (sex not determined) agree with these, the 

 separation of the northwestern series might seem ad^-isable. 



