ORDER LIMICOL.E. 131 



FAMILY APHRIZIDJE. SURF-BIRDS AND TURNSTONES. 



SUBFAMILY APHRIZIN.S. SURF-BIRDS. 



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GENUS APHRIZA AUDUBON. 



Aphriza AUDUBON, Orn. Biog., V, 1839, 249. Type, by mouotypy, 

 Aphriza townsendi AUDUBON = Tringa virgata GMELIN. 



Aphriza virgata (GMELIN). Surf -bird. [282.] 



Tringa virgata GMELIN, Syst. Nat., I, ii, 1789, 674. ("Sandwich Sound" 

 = Prince William Sound, Alaska.) 



RANGE. Pacific coast of North and South America. Breeding 

 range unknown, but probably in the interior of northwestern Alaska; 

 winters in Chile to Straits of Magellan; occurs in migration from 

 Kowak River, Alaska, to southern South America. 



SUBFAMILY ARENARIINJE. TURNSTONES. 

 GENUS ARE N ARIA BRISSON. 



Arenaria BRISSON, Orn., V, 1760, 132. Type, by tautonymy, [Arenaria] 

 arenaria BRISSON = Tringa interpres LINN^US. 



Arenaria interpres (LINNAEUS). 

 RANGE. Nearly cosmopolitan. 



a. Arenaria interpres interpres (LINNAEUS). Turnstone. [283.] 



Tringa interpres LINN^US, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, I, 1758, 148. (Islands of 

 Gothland, Sweden.) 



RANGE. Old World. Breeds in western Alaska from Point Barrow to 

 the Yukon delta, and in western Greenland, Scandinavia, northern Russia, 

 Siberia, and Japan; winters on the coasts of Europe and Asia to south Africa, 

 Australia, and Oceanica. 



b. Arenaria interpres morinella (LINNAEUS). Ruddy Turnstone. [283o.] 



Tringa morinella LINNAEUS, Syst. Nat., ed. 12, I, 1766, 249. (Coast of 

 Florida.) 



