856 BULLETIN UNITED STATES GEOLOGICAL SURVEY. [Yol.Y. 



1861. CoUES, E. A Monograph of the TriugesB of North America. <^ Proc. Acad. Nat. 

 Sci. PMla., xiii, 1861, pp. 170-20.5. 



This paper becomes somewhat conspicuous in the literature of Seolopacidce, owing to the 

 fact that we have no great monographs or iconographies in this family of birds. It is the 

 "maiden" effort of a very youthful author, who appears to have been too timid and too inex- 

 perienced to do any very brilliant blundering. On this account we may perhaps justify Dr. 

 Sclater's very generous mention of Mr. Coues's as a "name new to oriiithologssts, but not 

 the less heartily welcome as that of a recruit to our rants, who begins by fighting his first 

 fight well, and against a very hard subject" (Ibis, 1862, p. 84). "We may add on our own 

 account that no material modification of the specific determinations of !N"orth American Sand- 

 pipers has since been made. Two or three additional species have since been ascertained to 

 inhabit this country; but otherwise, the species stand very nearly as Mr. Coues left them 

 twenty years ago. The following genera and specjes are treated, vrith synonymy, diagnosis, 

 description, habitat, and general criticism : 



1. Micropalama Mmantopus (Bp.) Bd. 2. Ereunetes pusillus (L.) Cass. 3. Trmga canutus 

 L. 4. Calidris arenaria (T:.) Til. 5. Arquatella maritiina (Brumi.} HA. 6. Ancylocheilus sub- 

 arquata (Giild.) Kaup. 7. Pelidna amerieana (Cass.) Coues. (P. pacifica, Coues, n. sp. 

 prob., p. 189.) 8. Actodromas minutilla (Y.) Coues. 9. Aetodromas bairdii Coues, n. sp., p. 

 194. 10. Aetodromas tnaculata (Y .) Cass. 11. Actodromas (JSeteropygia sive Delopygia, suhg. 

 n., p. 190) bonapartsi (Schl.) Cass. 12. Actodrom,as {Heteropygia) cooperi (Bd.) Coues. Three 

 species attributed to North America by other authors are noticed and discarded : Actodro- 

 mas Tninuta ; A. temminckii ; Lim^icola pygmcea. The -new species, A. bairdi, has been con- 

 sidered invalid by Schlegel, who evidently knew nothing about it. The specific distinction 

 of Pelidna amerieana from P. alpina is very questionable, and not now generally conceded. 



The Sandpipers ascribed to Noith America since the appearance of this monograph are 

 the following: 1. Ereunetes' oecidentalis Lawr., Pr. PMla. Acad., 1864, p. 107; doubtfully 

 distinct from E. pusillus. 2. Tringa ptiloenemis Coues, Elliott's Hep. Pribylov Islands, 4to, 

 1873, not paged ; this is T. erasirostris Ball, Am. Nat, viii, 1873, p. 635, and T. gracilis Halt- 

 ing, P. Z. S,, 1874, p. 242, pi. 40. It has proved to be an Arquatella, and very near A. mari- 

 tima. 3. Arquatella couesi, Bidgw., Bull. Nutt. Ornith. Club, v, 1880, p. 160. 



TSo second second specimen of Tringa cooperi has ever come to light. The new species of 

 this paper, A. bairdii, has proved to be a very common bird of Korth and South America, 

 before confounded with bonapartii, from which it is iitterly different. It may have had a 

 prior name, but none such has been established. The suggested "■ Pelidna pacifica'' has 

 never been confirmed. The races of Ereunetes remarked upon have not since been recog- 

 nized and are doubtless invalid. Dr. Coues and some others have since adoj)ted Vieillot's 

 ■aa,me,fusciaollis, for what is here called bonapartii ,- but the applicability of the name to thi.s 

 species seems doubtful. — Yf. S. 



1861. "C. W." Die Kampfhiihiie [Machetes pugnax, in Gefangenschaft]. . . . 



< Zool. Gart.Ai, 1861, p. 116. 



1861. Gadamer, H. Das Balzen von Scolopax rusticnla. < J./. 0., ix, 1861, p. 217. 



1861. Gloger, C. W. L. Das Balzen von Scoloiiax rusticula betreifend. <^ J.f. 0., 



ix, 1861, pp. 289, 290. 



1862. Barclay, W. L. Occurrence of the Green Sandpiper [Totanus ochropus] at 



Leyton. < Zoologist, xx, 1862, p. 7939. 

 1862. Blake-Knox, H. The Common Sandpiper [Tringoides hypolencus] a Diver 



< Zoologist, XX, 1862, pp. 8195, 8196. 

 1862. Blakiston, T. Occurrence of the Knot [Tringa canutus] in Lancashire in Au- 

 gust, and its Eastern Eange. <^ Zoologist, xx, 1862, p. 8287. 



1862. Bond, F. Note on Sabine's Snipe [Gallinago sabini]. < Zoologist, xx, 1862, j). 



8000. 

 1862. Bond, F. Jack Snipe [phimage of Gallinago galUnula]. <^ Zoologist, xx, 1862, 



p. 8000. 

 1862. Gatcombb, J. Variety of Snipe [Zool. , p. 4704]. < Zoologist, xx, 1862, pp. 7938, 



7939. 

 1862. Gatcombe, J. Note on Sabine's Snipe [Gallinago sabinii]. <^ Zoologist, xx, 



1862, p. 8035. 

 1862. Green, G. C. The Sandpiper [Tringoides hypolencus] a Diver. <^ Zoologist. 



XX, 1862, p. 8283. 



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