124 CHECK-LIST OF NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 



Tryngites subruficollis (VIEILLOT). Buff-breasted Sandpiper. [262.] 



Tringa mbruficollis VIEILLOT, Nouv. Diet. d'Hist. Nat., XXXIV, 1819, 

 465. (Paraguay.) 



RANGE. North and South America. Breeds along the Arctic 

 coast from northern Alaska to northern Keewatin; winters in Argen- 

 tina and Uruguay; most abundant in migration in the Mississippi 

 Valley; occasional on the Atlantic coast in fall; casual on the Pacific 

 coast north to St. Michael, Alaska, and to northeastern Siberia; 

 straggles to Bermuda and frequently to western Europe. 



GENUS ACTITIS ILLIGER. 



Actitis ILLIGER, Prodromus, 1811, 262. Type, by subs, desig., Tringa 

 hypoleucos LINNAEUS (A. O. U. Comm., 1886). 



Actitis macularia (LINNAEUS). Spotted Sandpiper. [263.] 



Tringa macularia LINNJEUS, Syst. Nat., ed. 12, I, 1766, 249. (Pennsyl- 

 vania.) 



RANGE. North and South America. Breeds from tree limit in 

 northwestern Alaska, northern Mackenzie, central Keewatin, northern 

 Ungava, and Newfoundland south to southern California, Arizona, 

 southern Texas, southern Louisiana, and northern South Carolina; 

 winters from California, Louisiana, and South Carolina to southern 

 Brazil and central Peru; straggles to Great Britain and Helgoland. 



GENUS NUMENIUS BRISSON. 



Numenius BRISSON, Orn., V, 1760, 311. Type, by tautonymy, [Numen- 

 ius] numenius BRISSON = Scolopax arquata LINNAEUS. 



Numenius americ&nus BECHSTEIN. Long-billed Curlew. [264.] 



Numenius americanus BECHSTEIN, in LATHAM, Allg. Ueb. Vogel, IV, ii, 

 1812, 432. (New York.) 



RANGE. North America. Breeds from central British Columbia, 

 southern Saskatchewan, and Manitoba to northeastern California, 



