122 CHECK-LIST OF NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 
GeEeNus CATOPTROPHORUS Bonaparte. 
Catoptrophorus BONAPARTE, Ann. Lyc. N. H.N. Y., II, 1827, 323. Type, 
by monotypy, Scolopax semipalmata GMELIN. 
Catoptroéphorus semipalmatus (GMELIN). 
RanGcE.— Temperate North America, south in winter to South 
America. 
a. Catoptrophorus semipalmatus semipalmatus (GMELIN). Willet. ([258.] 
Scolopax semipalmata GMELIN, Syst. Nat., I, ii, 1789, 659. (New York.) 
Ranee.— North and South America. Breeds from Virginia (formerly 
Nova Scotia) south to Florida and the Bahamas; winters from the Bahamas 
to Brazil and Peru; accidental in Bermuda and Europe. 
b. Catoptrophorus semipalmatus inorndtus (BREwsTER). Western Willet. 
[258a.] 
Symphemia semipalmata inornata BREwsTER, Auk, IV, April, 1887, 145. 
(Larimer Co., Colorado.) 
Rance.— Western North America. Breeds from central Oregon, southern 
Alberta, and southern Manitoba south to northern California, central Colorado, 
southern South Dakota, and northern Iowa, and on the coasts of Texas and 
Louisiana; winters from central California, Texas, Louisiana, and Gulf coast of 
Florida to Mexico (Lower California, Tepic, and Guerrero); in fall migration 
occurs in British Columbia and on the Atlantic coast from New England 
south. 
GENUS HETERACTITIS STEJNEGER. 
Heteractitis StrsneGcER, Auk, I, July, 1884, 236. Type, by monotypy, 
Scolopax incanus GMELIN. 
Heteractitis incanus (GMELIN). Wandering Tattler. ([259.] 
Scolopax incanus GMELIN, Syst. Nat., I, ii, 1789, 658. (Eimeo [or 
Moorea] Island, Society group, and Palmerston Island, Pacific Ocean.) 
RanGE.— Coasts and islands of the Pacific, interior Alaska, and 
Yukon Territory. Breeds from south central Alaska (Mt. McKinley) 
to east central Yukon (Macmillan River) and south to Prince William 
Sound; occurs west to Norton Sound and northern Siberia; winters 
