BIEDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 279 



A[ctodroinas] acuminata Coues, Key N. Am. Birds, 2d ed., 1884, 628. 

 Actodromas acuminatus Stejneger, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., no. 29, 1885, 115 



(Bering Island, Kamchatka; synonymy, measurements, etc.); Proc. U. S. 



Nat. Mus., X, 1887, 130 (Commander Islands). 

 Tringa (Actodromas) acuminata Palmen, ' Vega'-Exped., 1887, 323 (Cape Wanka- 



rem, n. e. Siberia, Aug.). 

 Heteropygia acuminata Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xxiv, 1896, 566, 767. — 



Hartert, Novit. Zool., vi, 1899, 215, 216 (St. Aignan, Louisiade Archi- 

 pelago); vii, 1900, 8 (Ruk Island, centr. Carolines). 

 [ffeleropygia] acuminata Sharpe, Hand-list, i, 1899, 163. — Forbes and Robinson, 



Bull. Liverp. Mus., ii, no. 2, 1899, 72. 

 Heteropygia acuminatus Hartert, Novit. Zool., xii, 1905, 202 (Alligator River, 



n. w. Australia). 

 Pisobia acuminata Thayer and Bangs, Proc. New Engl. Zool. Club, v, 1914, 15 



(Nijni Kolymsk, etc., n. e. Siberia, May, June). 

 Erolia acuminata Mathews, Birds Australia, iii, pt. 3, Aug. 18, 1913, pi. [161] 



facing p. 255. 

 Tringa australis (not of Gmelin«) Jardine and Selby, Illustr. Orn., ii, 1836, pi. 91. 

 Schmiiclus australis Gray, List Birds Brit. Mus., iii, Grallae, 1844, 105 (South 



Australia; Rottness Island; West Australia; Port Essington). — Gould, Birds 



Australia, ^i, 1847, pi. 30 and text; Introd. Birds Australia, 1848, 100. — Sturt, 



Exp. Centr. Austral., ii, 1849, App., 50. — Reichenbach, Vog. Neuholl., 1850, 



22; Grallatores, 1851, pi. 290, figs. 2378, 2379.— Macgillivray, Narr. Voy. 



'Rattlesnake,' ii, 1852, 358.— Ram.say, Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. W., iv, 1880, 



101 (South Cape; Louisiades). 

 ^[Pelidna] australis Lichtenstein, Nom. Av. Mus. Berol., 1854, 92 (Australia). 

 [Actilurus] australis Bonaparte, Compt. Rend., xliii, 1856, 597. 

 Actodromas australis Ridgvs^ay, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., v, 1882, 331. 

 Tringa subarquata (not Scolopax subarquata Giildenstadt) MiJLLER (S.), Verh. 



Land -en Volkenk., 1839-44, 110 (Amboina). 

 Tringa rufescens (not of Bechstein, 1809) Middendorff, Sibir. Reis., Vog., 1851, 



221 (s. coast Sea of Okotsk, June). 

 Tringa,^ sp. Swinhoe, Ibis, 1860, 359 (Amoy); 1861, 342 (between Takow and 



Peking). 

 Tringa pectoralis (not of Say) Swinhoe, Ibis, 1863, 97 (n. China). 

 Trinya crassirostris (not of Temmiuck and Schlegel) Taczanowski, Journ. fiir 



Orn., 1873, 103. 



PISOBIA BAIRDI (Coues). 



BAIRD'S SANDPIPER. 



Adults in summer (sexes alike). — General color of upper parts pale 

 gra3'ish buff, the pileum broadly streaked with sooty black, the hind- 

 neck more narrowly streaked with the same, the interscapulars broadly 

 black medially, the scapulars with large irregular spots of black; wing- 

 coverts light grayish brown (nearest pale drab-gray), indistinctly 

 margined with paler and with narrow and indistinct dusky shaft- 

 streaks — the more anterior lesser coverts darker and more uniform 

 grayish brown; greater coverts passing into duU buffy whitish at 

 tips; secondaries darker grayish brown or brownish gray, narrowly 

 edged with paler, the edgings passing terminally into white (broadly 



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