ORDER LIMICOI^E. 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.). 



Long-toed Stint. 



Totanus damacensis HORSF. Trans. Linn. Soc. XIII. 1821, 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. Rgne An. 1817, 490. Type, Tringa alpina LINN. 

 [243.] Tringa alpina LINN. 



Dunlin. 



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

 [B- C-, R 539 , C6 23 .] 



GEOG. DIST. Northern parts of the Old World; accidental in 

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



243#. Tringa alpina pacifica (COUES). 



Red-backed Sandpiper. 



Pelidna pacifica COUES, Pr. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1861, 189. 

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



[B 530, C 424, R 5390, C 624.] 



GEOG. DIST. North America in general, breeding far north. 

 Eastern Asia. 



