3l6 PATAGONIAN EXPEDITIONS: ZOOLOGY 



Geographical Range. America. Breeding in the colder temperates 

 and sub-arctic portions of North America. Migrating south chiefly east 

 of the Rocky Mountains by way of the West Indies and wintering in 

 South America as far south as Central Argentina, Chili and Chupat, Pata- 

 gonia, and in North America at least as far north as the Gulf coast of 

 Florida. Has occurred accidentally in Europe (Ridgway). 



The lesser Yellow-legs was not observed by the naturalists of the 

 Princeton Expeditions. The material examined consists of the ample 

 series in the British Museum of Natural History, and the smaller series 

 in the Princeton Museum. 



Subfamily SCOLOPACINsE. 



Sharpe, Cat. Bds. Brit. Mus. XXIV, p. 520 (1896); Sharpe, Hand-list 

 Bds. I. p. 162 (1899). 



Genus CALIDRIS Illiger. 



Type. 

 Calidris, Cuvier, Lecons Anat. Comp. Tab. II. (1800; 



descr. Nulla) "Maubeche." 



Arenaria (nee. Brisson), Bechst. Orn. Taschenb. p. 462 



A. (1803) . . . . .' . . C. arenaria. 



Calidris, Illiger, Prodr. Syst. Nat. p. 249 (1811) ; Sharpe, 

 Cat. Bds. Brit. Mus. XXIV. p. 526 (1896) ; id., Hand- 

 list Bds. I. p. 163 (1899) . . .. ' . . C. arenaria. 



Geographical Range. Nearly cosmopolitan. 



CALIDRIS ARENARIA (Linnaeus). 



The Sanderling, Albin, Nat. Hist. B. II. p. 68 (1738). 



Tringa arenaria Linn. Syst. Nat. I. p. 251 (1766) ; Phil. & Landb. Cat. 



Av. Chil. p. 35 (1868); Seebohm, Geogr. Distr. Charadr. p. 431 



(1888). 

 Calidris arenaria, Hartl. Naum. 1853, p. 222 (Chili) ; Pelz. Reise Novara, 



Vog. p. 131 (1865; Chili); Scl. & Salv. Nomencl. Av. Neotr. p. 145 



(1873); Durnf. Ibis, 1878, p. 404 (Tambo Point, Patagonia, Dec.); 



