116 CHECK-LIST OF NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 
[a. Pelidna alpina alpina (Linnamus). Dunlin. ([243.] 
Tringa alpina Linnzvs, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, I, 1758, 149. (‘‘ Lapponia.’’) 
Ranae.— Eastern Hemisphere. Breeds in Scotland, Iceland, Russia, and 
Siberia north to latitude 74°; winters from Great Britain, Holland, and the 
Caspian Sea to northern Africa and Caleutta; accidental in eastern North 
America (Massachusetts, New York, and District of Columbia).] 
b. Pelidna alpina sakhalina (Vie1tLoT). Red-backed Sandpiper. [243a.] 
Scolopax sakhalina VimiuutotT, Nouv. Dict. d’Hist. Nat., III, 1816, 359. 
(Sakhalin Island, Okhotsk Sea.) 
RancGe.— North America and eastern Asia. Breeds on the northern coast 
of Siberia west to mouth of the Yenisei, and from Point Barrow to mouth of 
Yukon, and in Boothia and Melville peninsulas, and northern Ungava; win- 
ters on the Pacific coast from Washington to southern Lower California and 
from New Jersey (rarely Massachusetts) south to Louisiana and southern 
Texas, and in Asia from China and Japan to the Malay Archipelago; rare in 
migration in the interior of the United States except about the southern end 
of Lake Michigan. 
GeENus EROLIA VIEILLOT. 
Erolia VieiuioT, Analyse, 1816, 55. Type, by monotypy, Erolia varie- 
gata ViniLLot = Tringa ferruginea BRUNNICH. 
Erolia ferruginea (BRUNNICH). Curlew Sandpiper. [244.] 
Tringa ferruginea BrtnnicH, Orn. Borealis, 1764, 53. (Iceland and 
Christiansée Island.) 
RanGE.— Chiefly Eastern Hemisphere; occasional in North and 
South America. Breeds in the Yenisei delta and on the Taimyr 
Peninsula, Siberia; winters in Africa, India, Malay Archipelago, and 
Australia; in migration occurs from Great Britain to China and the 
Philippines; occasional in North America: Alaska (Point Barrow), 
Ontario, Nova Scotia, Maine, Massachusetts, New York, and New 
Jersey, and in the West Indies and Patagonia. 
