52 BULLETIN 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 
Adult male.—Wing, 139.5-155 (145.5); tail, 56.5-64 (60); exposed 
culmen, 21-22.5 (21.7); tarsus, 22.5-26 (24.5); middle toe, 21-23 
(21.8). 
Adult female.—Wing, 144-157.5 (148.6); tail, 57-63 (60.4); ex- 
posed culmen, 21.5-24 (22.9); tarsus, 23-25.5 (24.5); middle toe, 
20.5-24 (22).° 
Breeding in Arctic America, from Mackenzie River basin to Melville 
Island (and, probably, Melville Peninsula); in migration southward 
over North America in general (except Pacific coast), chiefly along 
Atlantic coast, and through West Indies, Bermudas, Gulf coast of 
Mexico and Caribbean coast of Central America to Brazil (coast of 
Piauhy; Sao Paulo; Santa Catarina; Bahia; Cajutuba). Rather fre- 
quent, during migration, in Mississippi Valley and Great Lakes region, 
but rare (accidental or casual) on Pacific coast (Sunset Beach, Orange 
County, California, 1 spec., Sept. 20, 1907). 
[Tringa] morinella Linnxvs, Syst. Nat., ed. 12,i, 1766, 249 (coast of Florida; based 
on Turnstone or Sea-Dotterel, Morinellus marinus, Catesby, Nat. Hist. Caro- 
lina, i, 1731, 72, pl. 72).—Guetin, Syst. Nat., i, ii, 1789, 671. 
Arenaria morinella PaLMER (W.), Fur Seals and Fur Islands of North Pacific Ocean, 
pt. iii, 1899 (Avifauna Pribilof Islands), 412-418 (crit.; descr.).—ALLEN, Auk, 
xviii, 1901, 173 (reprint Palmer’s descr.).—AmERICAN ORNITHOLOGISTS’ 
Union Commitrzz, Auk. xviii, 1901 (Tenth Suppl. to Check List), 297.— 
Fremine, Auk, xxiii, 1906, 452 (Toronto, Ontario, regular migrant).—Tay- 
ERNER and Swates, Wilson Bull., no. 60, 1907, 90 (Point Pelee, Ontario, 
regular migrant).—Wi.eTT, Condor, x, 1908, 50 (Sunset Beach, Orange Co., 
California, 1 spec., Sept. 20, 1907). ‘ 
Arenaria interpres morinella AMERICAN ORNITHOLOGISTS’ UNION COMMITTEE, 
Auk, xxv, July, 1908, 368; Check List, 3rd ed., 1910, 131.—Cory, Pub. 137, 
Field Mus. N. H., 1909, 197 (Aruba, Dutch West Indies)..-Bunxer, Kansas 
Univ. Bull., vii, 1913, 145 (Greenwood Co., Kansas, Oct. 1, 1911).—VisuEr, 
Auk, xxx, 1913, 567 (Sanborn Co., South Dakota, flock, May 30, 1905).—Huz1, 
Auk, xxxi, 1914, 399 (Lincoln Park, Chicago, Sept. 7; feeding habits).—WEert- 
more, Bull. 326, U. S. Dept. Agric., 1916, 40 (Porto Rico, winter visitant; 
food).—Brooks, Auk, xxxiv, 1917, 37 (Sumas Lake, Brit. Columbia, 1 spec., 
Aug. 19, 1899). 
Morinella interpres morinella Marnews, Birds Australia, iii, pt. 1, April 2, 1913, 
10 (e. North America).—Brooxs, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., lix, 1915, 376 
(Camden Bay, Gritfin Point, and Demarcation Point, Arctic coast of Alaska, 
June 5 and 28 and July 31). 
Cinclus morinellus Gray, List Gen. Birds, 2d ed., 1841, 85. 
Tringa hudsonica Miter, Natursyst., Anhang, 1776, 114 (based on Turnstone 
Jrom Hudson’s Bay Edwards, Nat. Hist. Birds, iii, 1750, 141, pl. 141). 
Tringa . . . interpres (not of Linnzeus, 1758) Forster, Philos. Trans., Lxii, 1772, 
412 (Severn River, Keewatin). 
Tringa interpres Boppazrt, Tabl. Pl. Enl., 1783, 21 (Pl. Enl., pl. 340), 52, part (Pl. 
Enl., pl. 857).—Witson, Am. Orn., vii, 1813, 32, pl. 57, fig. 1. 
[Tringa] interpres LatHam, Index Orn., ii, 1790, 738, part (‘‘America”’). 
T[ringa] interpres Bonaparte, Jour. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., v, pt. i, 1825, 95 
(crit.); Obs. Nomencl. Wilson’s Am. Orn., 1826, [177]. 
4 Ten specimens. b Eleven specimens. 
