BIRI>S OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 413 



Adult 7nale.~Wing, 200.5-214 (206.3) ; tail, 77-83.5 (80.1); exposed 

 culmcn, 48-53 (51.3) ; tarsus, 39.5-44 (42.1) ; middle toe, 24-26 (25.1).« 



Adult feinale.— Winer, 189.5-215 (203.8); tail, 76-82 (79.8); ex- 

 posed culmen, 47-60 (54.9) ; tarsus, 41-45 (43.9) ; middle toe, 25.5-27.5 

 (26.3).« 



Breeding on the barren grounds of Arctic America, from Norton 

 Sound, Alaska, to northern Mackenzie (valley of Anderson River; 

 Point Lake) ; migrating southward, through eastern North America 

 and West Indies (Porto Rico; Barbados; Grenada) to Falkland 

 Islands, Patagonia (Chupat Valley), Uruguay (Concepcion; Monte- 

 video), Paraguay, Argentina (Entre Rios; Buenos Aires), and Chile; 

 accidental or casual in Bermudas, California (San Diego, Sept., 

 1883) , in Galapagos archipelago (Charles Island) , Greenland (2 records) , 

 Iceland, and British Islands (5 records) ; one record for Guatemala 



(San Geronimo, April, ) ; northeastern Siberia (Cape Wankarem, 



Aug. 6, 1881) ? (Now nearly extinct.) 



Scolopax borealis Forster, Philos. Trans., Ixii, 1772, 411 (Albany Fort, Keewatin), 

 431 (Hudson Bay). 



S[colopax] borealis Bonaparte, Journ. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., v, 1825, 73 (crit.); 

 Obs. Norn. Wilson's Am. Orn., 1826, [155]. 



[Numenius] borealis Latham, Index Orn., ii, 1790, 712. — Martens, Journ. fiir 

 Orn., 1859, 219 (Bermudas).— Lawrence, Ann. Lye. N. Y., viii, 1866, 294 

 (vicinity New York City).— Gray, Hand-list, iii, 1871, 42, no. 10255.— 

 Coues, Key N. Am. Birds, 1872, 262. — Sclater and Salvin, Nom. Av. 

 Neotr., 1873, 146.— D'Hamonville, Cat. Ois. Eur., 1876, 50 (Scotland).— 

 GuNDLAcn, Journ. fiir Orn., 1878, 161 (Porto Rico).— Cory, List Birds 

 West Ind., 1885, and re\ised ed., 1886, 27.— Sharpe, Hand-list, i, 1899, 

 158. — Forbes and Robinson, Bull. Liverp. Mus., ii, no. 2, 1899, 69 (Pictou, 

 Nova Scotia). 



Numenius borealis Vieillot, Nouv. Diet. d'Hist. Nat., viii, 1817, 302. — 

 Bonaparte, Ann. Lye. N. Y., ii, 1826, 314; Synopsis, 1828, 314; Am. Orn., 

 iv, 1833, 118, pi. 26, fig. 3; Geog. and Comp. List, 1838, 49.— Swainson and 

 Richardson, Fauna Bor.-Am., ii, 1831, 378, pi. 65 (Point Lake, Mackenzie, 

 breeding). — Lesson, Traite d'Orn., 1831, 566. — Nuttall, Man. Orn. U. S. 

 and Can., Water Birds, 1834, 101. — Audubon, Orn. Biog., iii, 1835, 69, pi. 

 208; v, 1839, 590; Synopsis, 1839, 255; Bii-ds Am., 8vo ed., \i, 1843, 45, pi. 357. 

 — Naumann, Yog. Deutschl., viii, 1836, 506. — Vigors, Zool. Voy. 'Blossom,' 

 Birds, 1839, 28.— Townsend (J. K.), Journ. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., viii, 1839, 

 156 (n. w. United States). — Peabody, Rep. Orn. Mass., 1839, 366. — Giraud, 

 Birds Long Is., 1844, 274.— Gray, List Birds Brit. Mus., iii, Grallae, 1844, 

 94. — Jardine, Contr. Orn., 1849, 84 (Bermudas, very rare in autumn). — 

 HuRDis, Jardine's Contr. Orn., 1850, 10 (Bermudas, autumn). — McCai-l, 

 Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., v, 1851, 223 (Texas). — Kjaerbolling, Naumannia, 

 iv, 1854, 308 (Iceland; Europe). — Putnam, Proc. Essex Inst., i, 1856, 218 

 (Massachusetts). — Y.\rkell, Hist. Brit. Birds, 3rd ed., ii, 1856, 620. — 

 Cassin, in Baird, Rep. Pacific R. R. Surv., ix, 1858, 744. — Baird, Cat. N. 

 Am. Birds, 1859, no. 551. — Willis, An. Rep. Smithson. Inst, for 1858 (1859), 

 285 (Nova Scotia).— Bland, An-. Rep. Smithson. Inst, for 1858 (1859), 288 

 (Bermudas). — Reinhardt, Ibis, 1861, 10 (Greenland, 2 specs.); Vid. Medd. 



a Five spec- mens. 



