BIRDS OF NOETH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 



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Adult female.— Wing, 117-127 (123); tail, 47.5-54.5 (52.8); ex- 

 posed ciilmen, 24-28 (26); tarsus, 23-26 (24.7); middle toe, 16-17 

 (16.1)." 



Breeding in Arctic districts of both liemisplieres (MelviUe Island, 

 EUesmere Land, northern Mackenzie, Point Barrow, etc.,' in North 

 America; Greenland; Iceland; Taimyr Peninsula, etc., Siberia); 

 migrating southward, chiefly along seacoasts, as far as Galapagos 

 Archipelago (Abingdon, Albemarle, Bindloe, Charles, Chatham, 

 Hood, James, Jervis, and Seymour islands), Chile (Telcahuano; 

 Cavanche; Coquimbo Bay), and Patagonia (Tambo Point) in America, 

 to southern Africa, Aden, India, Burma, Ce3don, Borneo, Jaluit, 

 Mai shall Islands, Christmas Island, Hawaiian Islands, etc., in Eastern 

 Hemisphere; in America wintering from coast of Virginia, Texas, 

 Bermudas, California, etc., southward, casually as far nortnward as 

 coasts of Massachusetts and Washington; in Eastern Hemisphere 

 wintering from Mediterranean shores and Japan southward. 



Tringa leucophaea Pallas, in Vroeg's Cat., 1764, 32 (northern coast of Holland; 

 not binomial here; see Stone, Auk, xxxix, 1912, 205-208). 



Calidris leucophaea American Ornithologists' Union Committee, Auk, xxv, 

 July, 1908, 367; Check List, 3d ed., 1910, 118.— Brooks (W. S.), Bull. Mus. 

 Comp. Zool., lix, 1915, 382 (Demarcation Point, Alaska, Aug. 30).— Wet- 

 more, Bull. 326, U. S. Dept. Agric, 1916, 43 (Porto Rico, rare migrant). 



Calidris leucophaea leucophaea Mathews, List of the Birds of Australia, 1913, 69. 



Calidris leucophaea Iridactyla Mathews, List of the Birds of Australia, 1913, 69. 



Arenaria leucophoca Mathews, Birds Australia, iii, pt. 3, Aug. 18, 1913, pi. [158] 

 facing p. 241. 



Arenaria leucophxa leucophxa Mathews, Birds Australia, iii, pt. 3, Aug. 18, 1913, 

 244 (Europe). 



Trynga {alba) Pallas, in Vroeg's Cat., 1764, (Adumbr.), 7, no. 320 (coast of North 

 Sea). 



[Tringa] arenaria Linn^us, Syst. Nat., ed. 12, i, 1766, 251 (Europe). — Gmelin, 

 Syst. Nat., i, pt. ii, 1789, 680.— Turton, Syst. Nat., i, 1806, 410. 



o Thirteen specimens. 



Locality. 



MALES. 



One adult male from Europe (Helgoland) 



Two adult males from -Vldabra Island (near Madagascar) 



Ten adult males from coast of Virfiriuia 



One adult male from Alaska (Point Barrow) 



FEMALES. 



Two adult females from Europe 



One adult female from Aldabra Island 



Nine adult females from Atlantic coast of North America 

 One adult female from Lower California 



Tail. 



47.5 

 48 

 51 

 51 



49.2 

 52 

 52.3 

 54.5 



Ex- 

 posed 



cul- 

 men. 



23 



24.2 

 24.9 

 25 



24 

 26 

 26.3 



Tarsus 



23 



23.2 

 23.8 

 24.5 



25 

 23.5 

 24.8 

 25 



Middle 

 toe. 



16 

 16 

 16.1 

 16 



