BIRDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 249 



xxi, 1898, 280 (Kuril Islands; breeding?).— Chapman, Bull. Am. Mus. N. H., 

 XX, 1904, 401 (Muller Bay, Cook Inlet, Alaska, breeding). 



A[rquatella] couesi Ridgway, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, v, 1880, 162 (descr.). — 

 CouEs, Key N. Am. Birds, 2d ed., 1884, G29. 



[Arquatella] couesi Sharpe, Hand-list, i, 1899, 164. 



Arquatella couesii Ridgway, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., iii, Aug. 24, 1880, 199 (Cat. 

 N. Am. Birds, no. 531).— Bean, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., v, 1882, 164 

 (Cheruoffsky and Iliuliuk, Unalaska, Oct.). 



Tr[inga] couesi Hartlaub, Journ. ftir Orn., 1883, 280. 



Tringa couesi Ridgway, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., viii, 1885, 356. — Townsend 

 (C. H.), Cruise 'Corwin' in 1885 (1887), 99 (Unalaska, Oct. 23, in flocks).— 

 American Ornithologists' Union, Check List, 1886, and 2nd ed., 1895, 

 no. 236.— Turner, Contr. N. H. Alaska, 1886, 147 (St. Michaels, breeding; 

 Aleutian Islands; habits). — Nelson, Rep. N. H. Coll. Alaska, 1887, 103, 

 pi. 6 (habits, etc.). 



Tlringa] couesi Ridgway, Man. N. Am. Birds, 1887, 154. 



Tringa (Arquatella) maritima,... var. couesi Palmen, ' Vega'-Exped., Fogelf, 1887, 

 314 (Tschuksth-halfons, e. Siberia, June 10). 



Tringa maritima couesi Seebohm, Geog. Distr. Charadriidse, 1887, pp. xxv, 430. — 

 Taczanowski, M^m. Ac. Imp. Sci. St. Petersb., (7), xxxix, 1893, 905. — 

 —Elliot, N. Am. Shore Birds, 1895, 70, pi. 17. 



Arquatella maritima couesi American Ornithologists' Union Committee, 

 Auk, xxv, July, 1908, 366; Check List, 3rd ed., 1910, 113.— Clark (A. H.), 

 Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., xxxviii, 1910, 50 (Atka, Agattu, and Attn islands, 

 Aleutians; Commander Islands; habits). — Swarth, Univ. Calif. Pub. 

 Zoology, vii, 1911, 50 (Kuiu Island, s. Alaska, May; habits). — Taverner, 

 Auk, xxix, 1912, 396 (Clayquot, Vancouver Island, May 11, 1907).— Brooks 

 (W. S.), Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., lix; 1915, 386 (Providence Bay and East 

 Cape, n. e. Siberia, June, July; St. Lawrence Island, June). 



[Arquatella maritima.'] Subsp. a. Arquatella couesi Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., 

 xxiv, 1896, 583. 



[Arquatella] maritima subsp. couesi Forbes and Robinson, Bull. Liverp. Mus., 

 ii, no. 2, 1899, 73 (Port Etolin, Alaska). 



Tringa crassirostris (not of Temminck and Schlegel) Bogdanow, Consp. Av. 

 Ross., i, 1884, 88. 



Genus EROLIA Vieillot. 



Erolia Vieillot, Analyse d'un Nouv. Orn., 1816, 55. (Type, by monotypy, 



E. varicgata YieHlot= Tringa ferruginea Briinnich.) 

 (Erolia (emendation) Vieillot, Nouv. Diet. d'Hist. Nat., xxiv, 1818, 123. 

 .£rolia (emendation) Vieillot, Gal. Ois., ii, 1825, 89. 

 Falcinellus (not of Bechstein, 1803 nor Vieillot, 1816) Cuvier, Rfegne Anim., i, 



1817, 486; 2d ed., i, 1829, 527. (Type, Scolopax pygmxa Linnseus= Tringa 



ferruginea Briinnich.) 

 Ancylocheilus Kaup, Natiirl. Syst., 1829, 50. (Type, Tringa subarguata Giilden- 



stadt= T. ferruginea Brunnich.) 

 Ancylochilus (emendation) Coues, Check List, 2d ed., 1882, 102, no. 625. 



Medium-sized Eroliinae (wing about 120-130 mm.) with bill 

 longer than tarsus and distinctly decurved distally, tarsus much 

 longer than middle toe with claw, and bare portion of tibia as long 

 as middle toe without claw and distinctly scutellate anteriorly and 

 posteriorly. 



