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addition I niu}- quote a pair of Japanese birds recently received. As to 

 color they are typical T. ftidfica, while the measurements run as follows: 



These are undoubtedly the same as the American birds. It is also well 

 to bear in mind that Dr. Coues's type of T. facijica (U. S. Nat. Mus. No. 

 9540) is the largest specimen in our immense series, viz., wint;;, 126 mm.; 

 tail-feathers, 59 mm. ; exposed culmen, 44 mm.; tarsus, 28 mm.; midtUe 

 toe, with claw, 25 mm. 



Palmen is quite right in supposing (p. 319, footnote) that the so-called 

 Tringa minntillu collected by Dr. T. Bean* in Plover Bay, August 13, iSSo, 

 was erroneously identified, but he is wrong in supposing it to belong to 

 T. temmhickii, with which it could never be confounded, as the latter has 

 a simply graduated tail with the outer tail-feathers pure white, and only 

 the first primary with a white shaft, while the specimen in question has a 

 doubly excised tail, gray outer rectrices, and white on the shafts of all the 

 primaries. It is a young bird which in its general coloration and in most 

 of its characters agrees clo.sely with T. minutilla, but a close comparison 

 with specimens of the latter in corresponding plumage shows that Bean's 

 specimen is different. Point for point, however, it agrees minutely with 

 a young T. rtificollis which I myself collected on Bering Island (U. S. Nat. 

 Mus., No. 92,796), and to this species the specimen in question undoubt- 

 edly belongs. As already stated, young T. ininnfilla and ruficollis are 

 very much alike, but the latter may be distinguished by longer wings, 

 stouter and comfarativp.ly shorter bill, more white on the shafts of the 

 primaries and broader white edges to the inner (proximal) primary quills, 

 grayish rump with lighter edges to the feathers, instead of the nearly 

 solid black rump of the other species, generally lighter upper suifaee, more 

 grayish sides of head and neck, and uniform grayish chest which in T. 

 minutilla usually is more streaked with dusky. Bean's specimen (U. S. 

 Nat. Mus., No. 81,413) measures as follows: wing, 97 mm. ; tail-teathers, 

 45 mm. ; middle toe with claw, 17 mm. ; exposed culmen, 15.5 mm. 



Very interesting is the demonstration (pp. 343-346) of the occurrence of 

 Chciyiidriits domitiiciis, the American Golden Plover, on the Tschuktschi 

 Peninsula, which goes to show that the ranges of the two races cross each 

 other in the region bordering the northern part of Bering Sea, the 



*Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., V, 1882, p. 164. By a curious mistake Palmen quotes this 

 specimen as collected by Mr. Dall, and throughout the book he refers to Dr. Bean's 

 observations in the paper quoted as made by Dall {e.^. pp. 491, 492, 494, etc.). In the 



first sentence of the paper Dr. Bean distinctly states that "the collection was 



made by the writer [Bean] ." 



