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of head light brownish buffy, broken by a loral streak, a rictal streak, 

 and a median frontal streak of brownish bhick; under parts dull 

 buffy white. 



Adult male.—Wmg, 118-129 (123.8); tail, 57-64 (59.7); exposed 

 cuhnen, 26.5-35 (29.3): tarsus, 21-23 (21.8): middle toe, 21.5-23.5 

 (22.4). « 



Adult female. —Wing, 115-130 (124.2); tail, 52-66 (59.4); exposed 

 culmen, 27.5-34 (29.5); tarsus, 21-23.5 (22); middle toe, 21.5-24 

 (22.5).^ 



Northeastern North America, breeding from Melville Island 

 and Ellesmere Land southward to Melville Peninsula, eastward to 

 Greenland; also in Iceland, Faroe Islands, and Arctic Europe and 

 Asia, as far as Taimyr Peninsula; migrating southward along Atlantic 

 coast of North America, regularly to Long Island, irregularly or 

 casually to southern Floiida (Caloosahatchie River; Gordons Pass; 

 Key West), shores of Great Lakes (Cleveland, Ohio, rare; Cook Co., 

 Illinois, June, 1895, Nov., 1886), and to British Islands, Azores, 

 and Mediterraneai. coasts of Europe. 



[Tringa] rnaritima Brunnich, Orn. Bor., 1764, 54 (Christiansoe Island; Norway). — 

 Gmelin, Syst. Nat., i, pt. ii, 1789, 678.— Latham, Index Orn., ii, 1790, 731.— 

 TuRTON, Syst. Nat., i, 1806, 409. — Reinhardt, Journ. fiii' Orn., 1854, 441 

 (Greenland). — Gray, Hand-list, iii, 1871, 49, no. 10302. — Coues, Key N. Am. 

 Birds, 1872, 256. 



Tringa rnaritima Sabine (E.), Trans. Linn. Soc, xii, 1819, 532 (Hare Island, 

 June; Possession Bay, Sept.); in Parry's 1st Voy., 1824, App., p. cci (Davis 

 Strait and Baffin Bay, breeding). — Vieillot, Nouv. Diet. d'Hist. Nat., 

 xxxiv, 1819, 471.— Temminck, Man. d'Orn., ii, 1820, 619; iii, 1840, 404.— 

 Richard.sox, in Parry's 2nd Voy., 1824, 354 (Winter Island, June). — Ross 

 (J. C), in Parry's 3d Voy., 1826, 101 (Port Bowen, June); in Parry's Narra- 

 tive, 1828, 194 (shores of Hecla Cove); in Ross's 2nd Voy., Nat. Hist., 1835, 

 p. xxii (Fury Point; Melville Island). — Werner, Atlas, Grallatores, 1827, 

 pi. ii. — Bonaparte, Ann. Lye. N. Y., ii, 1827, 318; Geog. and Comp. List, 



a Fourteen specimens. 

 & Sixteen specimens. 



40017— 19— Bull. 50, pt S 17 



