266 BULLETIN 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



Proc. New Engl. Zool. Club, v. 1914, 17 (characters).— Brooks (W. S.). 

 Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., lix, 1915, 386 (Point Barrow, Collinson Point, and 

 Wainwright Inlet, n. Alaska, Aug.). — Oberholser, Auk, xxxiv, 1917, 200. 



Tringa alpina pacifica American Ornithologists' Union, Check List, 188G, and 

 2nd ed., 1895, no. 243a.— Turner, Contr. N. H. Alaska, 1886, 147 (St. 

 Michaels, etc.). — Scott, Auk, iii, 1886, 386 (near Tucson, Arizona, April); vi, 

 1889, 157 (Tarpon Springs, Florida, winter; St. Johns Pass, June); ix, 1892. 

 212 (Caloosahatchie River. Florida, winter). — Townsend (C. H.), Cruise 

 'Corwin' in 1885 (1887), 100 (Port Clarence, Alaska, June 28; Hall Island. 

 Sept. 8); Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., x, 1887, 198, 235 (n. California, winter).— 

 Nelson, Rep. N. H. Coll. Alaska, 1887, 110 (Point Barrow, summer resident; 

 coast of Ivotzebue Sound; etc.; habits; crit.). — Palmen, Vega-Exped., 

 Fogelf., 1887, 309, part.— Stejneger, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., x, 1887, 130 

 (Bering Island); Auk, v, 1888, 307, in text (crit.). — Seebohm, Geog. Distr. 

 Charadriidse. 1887, pp. xxv, 427.— Cooke, Bird Migr. Miss. Val., 1888, 93.— 

 Clarke (W. E.). Auk, vii, 1890, 321 (Fort Churchill, Keewatin; crit.).— 

 Thompson, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., xiii, 1890, 501 (Manitoba, in migration). — 

 Lawrence (R. H.), Auk, ix. 1892, 43 (Grays Harbor, Washington, May). — 

 Elliot, N. Am. Shore Birds, 1895, 92, pi. 25. 



Tringa pacifica Townsend (C. H.), Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., x. 1887, 163 (coast 

 region of n. California). 



Tringa subarquata (not Scolopax subarquata Giildeiistiidt) Swinhoe, Ibis, 1861, 

 342 (Takow to Peking, China); Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1862, 319 (Tientsin, 

 China). 



T[ringa] chinensis (not of Gray a) Swinhoe, Ibis, 1862. 255 (Foochow, China; 

 crit.). 



Tringa cinclus var. chinensis (not of Taczanowski) Swinhoe, Proc. Zool. Soc. 

 Lond., 1871, 408 (China). 



Tringa alpina v. chinensis Taczanowski, Joiirn. fiir Orn., 1873, 103 (e. Siberia). 



Tringa damacensis (not Totanus clamacensis Horsfield) Swinhoe, Ibis, 1876, 334 

 (Yedo, Japan; crit.). 



Genus PISOBIA Billberg. 



Pisohia ^ Billberg, Synop. Faunae Scand., i, pars ii, 1828, tab. A, and p. 136. 



(Type, as designated by American Ornithologists' Union Committee, 1908. 



Tringa minuta Leisler.) 

 Leimonites (not of Vieillot, 1816 c) Kaup, Nattirl. Syst., 1829, 37. (Type. Tringa 



temminckii Leisler.) 

 Limonites (emendation) Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xxiv, 1896, 537. 

 Actodromas Kaup, Natiirl. Syst., 1829, 55. (Type, Tringa minuta Leisler.) 

 Delopygia Coues, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1861, 190. (Type, Trijiga bona- 



partii Schlegel.) 

 Heteropygia Coues, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1861, 191. (Type, Tringa bona- 



partii Schlegel.) 

 Heteropygea (emendation) Giebel, Thesaurus Orn., ii, 1874,329. 

 Limnocinclus Goild, Handb. Birds Australia, ii, 1865, 254. (Type, Totanus 



acuminatus Horsfield ;= Trmgra aurita Latham?) 



a ==Erolia ferruginea. 



b "Ilto-os, locus humidus, /3iow vivo derivatum est." (Billl)erg.) 



c Not given as a generic name by Vieillot but for a so-called family comprising the 



genera Stumella, Siurnus, and Buphaga. Derivation, according to Vieillot, ''XtLfiMvLrvs 



pratensis." 



