ORDER LIMICOL. ile 
Arquatélla maritima (BRUNNICH). 
Rance.— Northern part of the Northern Hemisphere. 
a. Arquatella maritima maritima (BRUNNicH). Purple Sandpiper. [235.] 
Tringa maritima Brtnnicu, Orn. Borealis, 1764, 54. (Christiansde 
Island, and Norway.) 
Ranece.— Northern Hemisphere. Breeds from Melville Island, Ellesmere 
Land, and northern Greenland south to Melville Peninsula, Cumberland 
Sound, and southern Greenland, and in Norway, Russia, Siberia, Iceland, 
and Faroe Islands; winters from southern Greenland and New Brunswick to 
Long Island; casual in migration to the Great Lakes, Georgia, Florida, and 
Bermuda, and in the Eastern Hemisphere south to Great Britain and the 
Mediterranean. 
b. Arquatella maritima couési Ripcway. Aleutian Sandpiper. [235a.] 
Arquatella couest Ripaway, Bull. Nuttall Orn. Club, V, July, 1880, 160. 
(Attu Island, Aleutian Islands.) 
Rance.— Alaska. Breeds on the Commander, Aleutian, and Shumagin 
islands; winters on Commander, Kuril, Kadiak, and Aleutian islands, and 
Alaska coast south to Sitka; in migration occurs on Kotzebue Sound, Alaska, 
and at Plover Bay, Siberia. 
c. Arquatella maritima ptilocnémis (Couns). Pribilof Sandpiper. [235b.] 
Tringa ptilocnemis Cours, in Evuiot, Rep. Seal Isl. Alaska, 1873 (not 
paged). (St. George Island, Pribilof Islands.) 
RanGe.— Alaska. Breeds on St. Lawrence, St. Matthew, and Pribilof 
islands; winters on coast of southeastern Alaska near Lynn Canal; wanders 
in migration north to Norton Sound and southwest to Unalaska. 
GENUS PISOBIA BILLBERG. 
Pisobia BILLBERG, Syn. Faune Scand., I, ii, 1828, 136. Type, by subs. 
desig., Tringa minuta LEISLER (A. O. U. Comm., 1908). 
Pisoébia aurita (LATHAM). Sharp-tailed Sandpiper. ([238.] 
Tringa aurita LatHaM, Suppl. Index Orn., 1801, Ixvi. (New South 
Wales.) 
RancE.— Eastern parts of the Eastern Hemisphere. Breeds on 
the Chukchi Peninsula, Siberia; winters in Japan and south to New 
