CONTENTS. xiii 



CHAPTER XXIII. 



Page 

 Genus Limosa. 



Bar-tailed Godwit. — Siberian Bar-tailed Godwit. — American Bar-tailed Godwit. — Black- 

 tailed Godwit. — Siberian Black-tailed Godwit. — American Black-tailed Godwit 379 



CHAPTER XXIV. 



Genus Ereunetes. 



Canadian Snipe-billed Sandpiper. — Alaskan Snipe-billed Sandpiper. — Siberian Snipe-billed 

 Sandpiper. — Stilt-Sandpiper. ^rCanadian Semipalmated Stint.-^-Alaskan Semipalmated Stint . 394 



CHAPTER XXV. 



Subfamily Scolopacina. 

 Diagnosis. — Key to the Genera 405 



CHAPTER XXVI. 



Genus Strepsilas. 

 Common Turnstone. — Black Turnstone. — Plover-billed Turnstone 407 



CHAPTER XXVII. 



Genus Tringa. 



Curlew Sandpipex.' — Japanese Knot^^Common Knot. — Dunlin.^Pacific Dunlin.^Purple 

 Sandpiper. — Aleutian Purple Sandpiper.— ^Prybilof Purple Sandpiper; — Sanderling. — Broad- 

 billed Sandpiper. — Temminck^s Stint. — Little Stint.^:B,ed-throated Stint.- — MiddendorfF's 

 Stint. — American Stint. — Spoon-billed Sandpiper. — Siberian Pectoral Sandpiper. — American 

 Pectoral Sandpiper. — Baird's Sandpiper. — ^Bonaparte's Sandpiper. — Buff-breasted Sandpiper . 414 



CHAPTER XXVIII. 



Genus Phegornis. 

 Chilian Sandpiper. — Peale's Sandpiper. — Forster's Sandpiper 448 



CHAPTER XXIX. 



Genus Rhynchcea. 

 Painted Snipe. — Australian Painted Snipe. — South- American Painted Snipe .... 45 1 



