ORDER LIMICOL^. 89 



242. Tringa minutilla Vieill. 



Least Sandpiper. 



Tringa minutilla Vieill. Nouv. Diet. d'Hist. Nat. XXXIV. 

 1819, 452. 



[B 532, C 418, R 538, C 614.] 



Geog. Dist. — The whole of North and South America, breeding 

 north of the United States. Accidental in Europe. 



[242.1.] Tringa damacensis (Horsf.). 



Liong-toed Stint. 



Tetanus damacensis Horsf. Trans. Linn. Soc. XIII. 182 1, 129. 

 Tringa damacensis Swinh. Ibis, Oct. 1863, 413. 



[B-, C— , R- C— .] 



Geog. Dist. — Asia, breeding toward Arctic coast ; accidental in 

 Alaska (Otter Island, Bering Sea). 



Subgenus PELIDNA Cuvier. 



Pelidna Cuv. R^gne An. 18 17, 490. Type, Tringa alpina Linn. 

 [243.] Tringa alpina Linn. 



Dunlin. 



Tringa alpina Linn. S. N. ed. 10, I. 1758, 149. 



[B_, C-, R539, C623.] 



Geog. Dist. — Northern parts of the Old World; accidental in 

 eastern North America (west side of Hudson Bay and Long Island). 



243a. Tringa alpina pacifica (Coues). 



Red-backed Sandpiper. 



Pelidna pacifica Coues, Pr. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila. 186 1, 189. 

 Tringa alpina pacifica A. O. U. Check-List, 1886, 152. 



[B 530, C 424, R 539«, C 624.] 



Geog. Dist. — North America in general, breeding far north. 

 Eastern Asia. 



