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PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



VOL. 54. 



There is an adult male specimen in the United States National 

 Museum collection (No. 109097) taken at Fort Simpson, Mackenzie, 

 May 13, that seems also to agree with Alaskan and Asiatic birds ; in 

 point of size it is the largest male example measured. It must be con- 

 fessed that the eastern United States specimens are in fresh unworn 

 plumage; while the Alaskan, Asiatic, and European birds mostly have 

 the gray edges of the back feathers abraded, but there are three un- 

 sexed individuals from Greenland before me that are about in the 

 same stage of abrasion as the series from the three latter localities. 

 These Greenland birds have less black and more rufous on the back 

 than in either the European or Asiatic- Alaskan series, and the rufous 

 below is especially dark and extensive, particularly so in No. 18628. 

 The shade and extent of the rufous below varies considerably in the 

 same series and I do not attach much importance to this character. 

 My series of fall plumages of both the American and Asiatic forms 

 are much too small to show anything. The differences in size between 

 the series are small and covered by the variations; American birds 

 average slightly smaller than the other two races. Besides an exten- 

 sive series of spring birds from eastern United States there are a 

 few unsexed specimens from the old world, not given in the measure- 

 ments below, though useful for comparison. The various series 

 average as follows: 



27. LIMOSA LAPPONICA BAUERI Naumann. 



One male, Cape Bolshaja Baranov, August 9, 1915. 



28. RHYACOPmLUS GLAREOLA (Linnaeus). 



One male and three females, Nijni Kolymsk, May 27, June 16, 17, 

 and 27, 1915; one male, 7 miles north of Nijni Kolymsk, June 1, 1915. 



29. TOTANUS ERYTHROPUS (Pallas). 



One immature female, Little Annuj River, September 9, 1914. 



Thayer and Bangs ^ when they found it impossible to accept Tringa 

 erythropus Scopoli - for this bird, evidently overlooked the older 

 name of Scolpax erythropus Pallas.^ 



1 Proc. New England Zool. Club, vol. 6, 1914, p. 20. 



2 Annus 1, Hist. Nat., 1769, p. 102. 



3 Vroeg's Cat., Adumbr., 1764, p. 6. 



