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Adult male.— Wing, 114-122 (118.7); tail, 48-53 (51.1); exposed 

 culmen, 20.5-23 (21.7); tareus, 20-23 (21.1); middle toe, 16-18 

 (17.2).« 



Adult female.— Wing, 119-126 (122.3); tail, 49-54 (51.7); exposed 

 culmen, 21.5-24 (22.8); tarsus, 20-23 (21.4); middle toe, 16.5-19 

 (17.4).« 



Breeding on or near Arctic coast of North America, from Point 

 Barrow, Alaska, to northern Keewatin; migrating southward, chiefly 

 between Rocky Mountains and Mississippi River, through Mexico, 

 Central America, and South America as far as Chile (Santiago; Con- 

 cepcion; Huasco; Sacaya; Caucosa; Lake Huasco; Cueva Negra, 

 Tarapaca), Argentina (C6rdova; Tucuman; Misiones; Buenos Aires; 

 Conchitas; Mendoza), Uruguay (Rio Sauce), and Paraguay; occurs 

 frequently but irregularl}", during autumn migration, along Atlantic 

 coast from Maine southward, and along Pacific coast from Norton 

 Sound, Alaska, southward; casual in Galapagos Archipelago (Bar- 

 rington Island) and on Cocos Island; accidental in England and in 

 southwestern Africa (Walvisch Bay, Damara Land, Oct. 24, 1863); 

 occasional in northeastern Siberia (Arakamachaclii Island, near St. 

 Lawrence Bay). 



(?) Tringa melanotos Yieillot, Nouv. Diet. d'Hist. Nat., xxxiv, 1819,462 (Para- 

 guay; based on Chorlito lomo negro Azara, Apunt. Parag., iii, 1805, 317). — 

 Hartlaub, Index Azara's Apunt., 1847, 25. — Cabanis, Journ. fiir Orn., 

 . 1878, 199 (Argentina). 



(?) T[ringa] melanotos Gray, Gen. Birds, iii, 1845, 579. 



[Tringa] melanotis Pelzeln, Orn. Bras., 1870, 457. 



Schseniclus schinzii (not Tringa schimii Brehm) Gray, List Birds Brit. Mus., iii, 

 Grallse, 1844, 105 (Chile). 



Tringa schimii Woodhouse, in Sitgreaves' Rep. Expl. Zuiii and Col. R., 1853, 

 100, excl. syn. (Indian Territory; New Mexico). 



(?) [Pelidna] dorsalis Lichtenstein, Nom. Av. Mus. Berol., 1854, 92 {nomen 

 nudum; Tropical America). 



Tringa dorsalis Burmeister, Syst. Ueb. Th. Bras., iii, 1856, 374; Reise La Plata 

 Staaten, ii, 1861, 503 (Mendoza, Argentina). 



{'})Pelidna pectoralis (not Tringa pectoralis Say) Cassin, in Rep. U. S. Astron. 

 Exped. (Gilliss), ii (Birds), 1855, 195 (Chile). 



Tringa honaparlii (not of Schlegel) Cassin, in Baird, Rep. Pacific R. R. Surv., 

 ix, 1858, 722, part (Omaha; Fort Kearney; Yellowstone River). — Baird, 

 Cat. N. Am. Birds, 1859, no. 533, part. — Haydex, Trans. Am. Philos. See, 

 xii, 1862, 174 ("throughout the watercourses of the Northwest''). 



Actodromaj; bonapartii Henry, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1859, 108 (New Mexico). 



Actodromas bairdii Coues, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., xiii, 1861, 194 (Fort Resolu- 

 tion, Great Slave Lake, Mackenzie; coll. U. S. Nat. Mus.); 1866, 97 (Fort 

 Whipple, Arizona). — Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1862, 369 (Mexico). — 

 Ball and Bannister, Trans. Cliicago Ac. Sci., i, 1869, 292 (Sitka, Kadiak, 

 Amak Island, and Yukon River, Alaska). — Allen, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., 

 iii, 1872, 182 (western edge of Great Plains, Aug.). — Brewster, Am. Nat., vi, 

 1872, 306 (Long Island in Boston Hai-bor, Aug. 27, 1870).— Brewer, Proc. 



" Nine specimans. 



