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BULLETIIS!' 50, UXITED STATES NATIONAL MUSE CM. 



Adult female.— Wing, 122-134.5 (129.2); tail, 56-65 (60.1); ex- 

 posed culmen, 28-37 (33); tarsus, 21.5-24.5 (23.3); middle toe, 

 21.5-25 (23.2).° 



Breeding on St. Lawrence, St. Matthews, and Pribilof Islands, in 

 Bering Sea; migrating to coast of Alaska, from Norton Sound to 

 eastern Aleutian Islands (Unimak, Tigalda, and Unalaska islands), 

 Chilcoot, Portage Bay, and Lynn Canal. 



Tringa maritima (not of Briinnich) Dall and Bannister, Trans. Chicago Ac. Sci., 

 i, 1869, 291, part (St. George Island, Pribilofs).— Dall, Proc. Calif. Ac. Sci., 

 V, 1874, 275 (Pribilof Islands^. 



Tringa crassiroslris (not of Temminck and Schlegel) Dall, Proc. Calif. Ac. Sci.. 

 V, 1873, 28 (Pribilof Islands); Am. Nat., viii, 1873, 635 (St. Paul Island. 

 Pribilof group). ^CouES, in Elliott's Affairs in Alaska, 1873 (not paged); 

 ed. 1875, 182; Check List, 1873, no. 426 bis. 



Tringa ptilocnemis Coues, iu Elliott's Affairs in Alasks, 1873 (not paged), (St. 

 George Island, Pribilof group, Alaska; coll. U. S. Nat. Mus.); ed. 1875, 182, 

 footnote, Birds Northwest, 1874, 491; Am. Nat., viii, 1874, 500, 501 (reprint 

 of orig. descr.).— Elliott, Mon. Pribylov Group, 1882, 129 (breeding habits). — 

 Hartlaub, Journ. fiir Orn., 1883, 279 (Portage Bay and Chilcoot, Alaska; 

 crit.). — Seebohm, Hist. Brit. Birds, ili. 1885, 183. — American Ornitholo- 

 gists' Union, Check List, 1886, and 2nd ed., 1895, no. 237. — Nelson, Rep. 

 N. H. Coll. Alaska, 1887, 105 (Pribilof Islands; St. Matthews Island; St. 

 Lawrence Island, breeding; Portage Bay, Dec, Jan., April; descr. nest 

 and eggs). 



T[ringa] ptilocnemis Ridgway, Man. N. Am. Birds, 1887, 354. 



A[rquatella] ptilocnemis Ridgway, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, v. July, 1880, 163 

 (diagnosis; crit.).— Coues, Key N. Am. Birds, 2nd ed., 1884, 630. 



ArquateUa ptilocnemis Ridgway, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., iii, 1880, 199 (Cat. N. Am. 

 Birds, no. 532); Nom. N. Am. Birds, 1881, no. 532.— Coues, Check List, 

 2nd ed., 1882, no. 622.— Nelson, Cruise 'Corwin' in 1881 (1883). 86 (Pribilof, 



« Twenty -seven specimens. 



