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and Bannister, Trans. Chicago Ac. Sci., i, 1869, 291 (Pastolik and mouth of 

 Yukon River, Alaska). — Frantzius, Journ. fiir Orij., 1869, 377 (Costa Rica). — 

 Allen, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., iii, 1872, 171, 181 (Ogden, Utah, after Sept. 

 25).— RiDGWAY, Bull. Essex Inst., v, 1873, 187 (Colorado).— Merri am, 

 Rep. U. S. Geol. Surv. Terr., 1873, 714 (Utah).— Henshaw, Ann. Lye. N. Y., 

 xi, 1874, 11 (Utah); Zool. Exped. West of 100th Merid., 1875, 453 (Rush Lake, 

 Utah, Oct. 1; Denver, Colorado, July 24; Mimbres, Arizona, Oct. 22). — 

 CouES, Birds Northwest, 1874, 476 (excl. synonymy, part; Bull. U. S. 

 Geol. and Geog. Surv. Terr., iv, 1878, 638 (Souris River, North Dakota, 

 Aug.-Oct.). — ^Adams, Ibis, 1878, 438 (St. Michaels, Alaska; habits). — Beld- 

 ing, Proc. U. S. Nat. Miis., i, 1879,440 (Stockton, California, April, Nov.).— 

 Hartlaub, Journ. fiir Orn., 1883, 279 (Alaska). — Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. 

 Mus., xxiv, 1896, 394, 751, part (St. Michaels, Alaska; Bering Straits; Van- 

 couver Island; California; Yokohama, Japan; etc.). — Salvin and Godman, 

 Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, iii, 1903, 368, part. — Carriker, Ann. Carnegie 

 Mus., vi, 1910, 418 (Costa Rica; crit.). 



(?) Macrorhamphus griseus Blakiston, Ibis, 1863, 131 (Fort Carlton, Saskatch- 

 ewan). — ^Taczanowski, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1877, 748 (Santa Lucia, 

 Peru). — Sclater and Salvin, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1879, 547 (Medellin, 

 Antioquia, Colombia). — Salvin, Ibis. 1889,379 (Cozumel Island, Yucatan). — 

 Seton, Auk, iii, 1886, 151 (Manitoba).— Lloyd, Auk, iv, 1887, 185 (Tom 

 Green and Concho counties, Texas, Sept.).— Sennett, Auk, v, 1888, 110 

 (Corpus Christi, Texas, June 11, 1 pair). — Salvadori and Festa, Boll. Mus. 

 Zool., etc., Torino, xv, 1900, 44 (Cailar, centr. Ecuador). 



[MacrorhamphiLs] griseus Coues, Key N. Am. Birds, 1872, 253, part. — Sharpe,, 

 Hand-list, i, 1899, 159, part. 



Macroramphus griseus Taczanowski, Journ. fiir Orn., 1873, 112 (n. e. Siberia). 



M [acroramphus] griseus Gambel, Journ. Ac. Sci. Phila., 2d ser., i, 1849, 224 

 (coast of California). 



(?) Scolopax novoboracensis {not ol GmeYin?) Swainson and Richardson, Fauna 

 Bor.-Am., ii, 1831, 398 (Saskatchewan plains). 



Macrorhamphus griseus griseus Brooks and Cobb, Auk, xxviii, 1911, 467 (e. 

 Alberta; see Auk, xxix, 1912, 400). 



Genus MICROPALAMA Baird. 



Micropalama Baird, Rep. Pacific R. R. Surv., ix, 1858, 726. (Type, by origi- 

 nal designation, TrmgraM/ria/tiopus Bonaparte.) 



Mieropelama (emendation) Gray, Hand-list, iii, 1871, 48. 



Hemipalama (not of Bonaparte, 1825) Bonaparte, Speech. Comp., 1827, 61; 

 Ann. Lye. Nat. Hist. N. Y., ii, 1828, 316. (Type, Tringa himantopus Bona- 

 parte.) 



Medium-sized Eroliinse (wing 116-137 mm.) with very long, 

 slender legs (tarsus as long as or longer than slender, greatly com- 

 pressed, bill, the latter nearly one-third as long as wing), bare 

 portion of tibia haK as long as tarsus, and with web between basal 

 phalanges of both middle and outer and middle and inner toes. 



Bill slender, straight, very much compressed (except terminally), 

 slightly tapering in lateral profile, tlie edges parallel in vertical profile 

 to near tip, where distinctly expanded; exposed culmen nearly as 

 long as tarsus; nasal groove rather narrow, extending to base of 

 laterally expanded tip of maxilla, the mandible also with a distinct 



