ORDER LIMICOL^E. 87 



SUBGENUS ARQUATELLA BAIRD. 



Arquatella BAIRD, B. N. Am. 1858, 714, 717. Type, Tringa 

 maritima BRUNN. 



235. Tringa maritima BRUNN. 



Purple Sandpiper. 



Tringa maritima BRUNN. Orn. Bor. 1764, 54. 



[6528, 423, R53> C 620.] 



GEOG. DIST. Northern portions of the northern hemisphere ; in 

 North America chiefly the northeastern portions, breeding in the 

 high north, migrating in winter to the Eastern and Middle States 

 (casually to Florida), the Great Lakes, and the shores of the larger 

 streams in the upper Mississippi Valley. 



236. Tringa couesi (Rmcw.). 



Aleutian Sandpiper. 



Arquatella couesi RIDGW. Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, V. July, 1880, 



160. 

 Tringa couesi HARTLAUB, Journ. f. Orn. 1883, 280. 



[B , C , R 53 i, C62i.] 



GEOG. DIST. Aleutian Islands and coast of Alaska, north to 

 Kowak River, west to Commander Islands, Kamchatka. 



237. Tringa ptilocnemis COUES. 



Pribilof Sandpiper. 



Tringa ptilocnemis COUES, ELLIOTT'S Rep. Seal Isl. Alaska, 1873 

 (not paged). 



[B , C 426 for, R 532, C 622.] 



GEOG. DIST. Breeding in the Pribilof Islands, Alaska, and mi- 

 grating to coast of adjacent mainland south of Norton Sound. 



SUBGENUS ACTODROMAS KAUP. 



Actodromas KAUP, SKIZZ. Entw.-Gesch. Eur. Thierw. 1829, 37. 

 Type, Tringa minuta LEISL. 



