122 CHECK-LIST OF NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 



GENUS CATOPTROPHORUS BONAPARTE. 



Catoptrophorus BONAPARTE, Ann. Lye. N. H. N. Y., II, 1827, 323. Type, 

 by monotypy, Scolopax semipalmata GMELIN. 



Catoptrophorus semipalmatus (GMELIN). 



RANGE. 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.) 



RANGE. 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. 



I. Catoptrophorus semipalmatus inornatus (BKEWSTER). Western Willet. 

 [258a.] 



Symphemia semipalmata inornata BREWSTER, Auk, IV, April, 1887, 145. 

 (Larimer Co., Colorado.) 



RANGE. 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 STEJNEGER, Auk, I, July, 1884, 236. Type, by monotypy, 

 Scolopax incamis 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 



