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Adult female.— Wmg, 114-125 (117.4); tail, 44.5-56 (53); exposed 

 culmen, 34-42 (38.3); tarsus, 25-27 (26) ; middle toe, 19.5-22 (20.4) .« 



North America and eastern Asia; breeding from northern Ungava, 

 Boothia, Melville Penisula, etc., westward through Arctic districts to 

 mouth of Yukon River, and along Arctic coast of Siberia westward to 

 mouth of the Yenesei River; migrating southward to southern Florida 

 (Tarpon Springs; St. Johns Pass), Louisiana, Texas (Fort Brown; 

 Tom Green County), Arizona (Tucson) and Lower California (San 

 Quentin Bay; south of lat. 24° 30'), and through Kamchatka, Korea, 

 Japan, China, etc., to Formosa and Malay Archipelago. (No record 

 from any portion of middle America, except Lower California.) 



[Tringa] alpina (not of Linnaeus, 1758) Latham, Index Orn., ii, 1790, 736, part. 



Tringa alpina Wilson, Am. Orn., vii, 1813, 25, pi. 56, fig. 2. — Bonaparte, Ann. 

 Lyo. N. Y., ii, 1826, 317. — Swainson and Richardson, Fauna Bor.-Am., ii, 

 1831, 383.— Nuttall, Man. Orn. U. S. and Can., Water Birds, 1834, 106.— 

 Audubon, Orn. Biog., iii, 1835, 580, pi. 290; Synopsis, 1839, 234; Birds Am., 

 Svo ed., V, 1842, 266, pi. 333.— Townsend (J. K.), Journ. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 

 viii, 1839, 156 (n. w. United States). —Peabody, Rep. Orn. Mass., 1839, 367.— 

 Giraud, Birds Long Is., 1844, 228.— Cassin, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., x, 

 1858, 196 (Japan); xiv, 1862, 322 (Seniavine Straits); in Baird, Rep. Pacific 

 R. R. Surv., ix, 1858, 719.— Willis, An. Rep. Smithson. Inst, for 1858 (1859), 

 284 (Nova Scotia). — Blakiston, Ibis, 1862, 330 (Japan). — Swinhoe, Ibis, 

 1863, 97 (n. China); 1866, 136 (Formosa, Sept.); 1870, 363 (Hainan); 1873, 368 

 (Shanghai, April).— Weiz, Proc. Bost. Soc. N. H., x, 1866, 267 (Labrador).— 

 Whitely, Ibis, 1867, 205 (Hakodate, Japan, Nov., Jan.). — Harting, Proc. 

 Zool. Soc. Lond., 1871, 115 (Bering Straits).— Adams, Ibis, 1878, 438 (St. 

 Michaels, Alaska, breeding). — Merrill, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., i, 1878, 161 

 (Fort Brown, Texas). — Maynard, Birds E. N. Am., 1879, 384. — Seebohm, 

 Ibis, 1884, 268 (Kiu-Kiang, China); Birds Jajjanese Emp., 1890, 334.— Smith 



« Seventeen specimens. 



Localilv. 



MALES. 



Ten adult males from AUantic coast United States (migrants) 



Ten adult males from coast of Alaska 



Three adult males from Bering Island, Kamchatka 



One adult male from Korea (migrant) 



One adult male from Japan (migrant) 



Seven adult males of P. a. alpina 



FEM.\LES. 



Ten adult females from Atlantic coast of United States (mi- 

 grants) 



Five adult females from Alaska 



One adult female from IJering Island 



One adult female from Japan 



Thirteen adult females of P. a. alpina 



Wing. 



114.5 



117.3 



114. 8 



117 



120 



107.4 



117.8 



118.2 



121 



116.5 



110.9 



Tail. 



51 



52.7 



52.7 



50.5 



54 



46.9 



53.4 

 52.2 

 52.5 

 53.5 

 48.4 



Middle 

 toe. 



20.2 



19 9 



20.2 



19.5 



20 



19 



20.8 

 19.9 

 19.5 

 20 5 

 18.9 



