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Adult female. —Wing, 95-104 (100.6); tail, 39-46.5 (43.5); exposed 

 culmen, 16.5-18 (17.4); tarsus, 17.5-20 (18.6); middle toe, 14-16 

 (15. 6). « 



Breeding in delta of the Lena River, northeastern Siberia; migrating 

 southward, through eastern Siberia, Kamchatka (including Com- 

 mander Islands), Korea, Kuril Islands, Japan, China, Formosa, 

 Philippine Islands, Burma, Malay Peninsula, etc., to Andaman and 

 Nicobar Islands, Aru Islands, Salawati, Duke of York Island, and 

 Australia; casual or accidental in western Alaska (Nome, July 10, 

 1908, breeding).'' 



Trynga ruficoUis Pallas, Reis. Russ. Reichs, iii, 1776, 700 (Kulussutai, e. Siberia). 



Tringa ruficollis Vieillot, Nouv. Diet, d' Hist. Nat., xxxiv, 1819, 461. — Walden, 

 Trans. ZooL Soc. Lond., ix, 1875, 234 (Luzon, Philippines, Feb.). — David « 

 and OusTALET, Ois. Chine, 1877, 472. — Hume, Stray Feath., viii, 1879, 

 113; xi, 1888, 323 (Manipur, India).— Kelham, Ibis, 1882, 17 (Singapore).— 

 Blakiston and Pryer, Trans. Asiat. Soc. Japan, x, 1882, 112. — Gates, 

 Handb. Birds Brit. Burma, ii, 1883, 390. — Blakiston, Amend. List Birds 

 Japan, 1884, 37 (Kuril Islands).— Seebohm, Ibis, 1884, 34, 308 (Kiukiang, 

 China). — Bogdanow, Consp. Av. Imp. Ross., 1884, 93. — Sharpe, Ibis, 

 1884, 203 (Palawan); 1890, 143 (Pule Tega, April).— Palmen, Vega-Exped., 

 Fogelf., 1887, 324.— Everett, Journ. Straits Branch Asiat. Soc, 1889, 207 

 (Labuan). — Whitehead, Ibis, 1890, 59 (Palawan, Sept.). — Steere, List 

 Birds and Mam. Exped. Philip., 1890, 26 (Palawan). — Campbell, Ibis, 1892, 

 246 (Korea). — De la Touche, Ibis, 1892, 499 (Foochow, China). — Legge, 

 Proc. Austral. Assoc, 1892, 24.— Styan, Ibis, 1893, 437 (Hainan).— 

 Taczanowski, Mem. Acad. Imp. Sci. St. Petersb., (7); xxxix, 1893, 920. — 

 Dresser, Ibis, 1908, 489, pi. 10, figs. 7-9 (delta of Lena River, n. e. Siberia, 

 breeding; descr. nest and eggs). 



[Tringa] ruficollis Latham, Index Orn., ii, 1790, 736 (near Salt Lakes of Danube). 



Actodromas ruficollis Stejneger, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., no. 29, 1885, 118 (Seniavine 

 Straits and Bering Island, Kamchatka; crit.); Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., x, 

 1887, 130 (Commander Islands). 



Limonites ruficollis Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xxiv, 1896, 545, 767. — Thayer, 

 Condor, xi, 1909, 173 (Nome, Alaska, breeding). — Buturlin, Condor, xii, 



«aTen specimens. 



^ This record, however, together with one of an alleged North American specimen 

 in the collection of Count X. Branicki, Warsaw, Poland, is discredited by the A. 0. 

 U. Committee (Check List, 3rd ed., 1910, 371). 



