66 BULLETIN 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 
Adult male.—Wing, 211-233 (220.7); tail, 94-120 (106); culmen, 
23-27.5 (24.6); tarsus, 43.5-50.5 (46.8); middle toe, 25-28 (26).% 
Adult female.—Wing, 212-225 (219.3); tail, 100-108 (105); culmen, 
23.5-26 (24.8); tarsus, 42-49.5 (45.1); middle toe, 25-27 (25.8).” 
Breeding in extratropical Europe and Asia, southward to central 
Europe and China; in winter southward to northern Africa and 
India; casual in Greenland (Fiskenaesset, Jan. 7, 1820; Julians- 
haab, 1847), Newfoundland (White Hills, Nov. 23, 1905), Nova 
Scotia (Ketch Harbor, March 17, 1897), Long Island, New York 
(Merrick, 2 specs., Dec., 1885; Meccox Bay, Waterville, autumn, 
1905), Bahamas (Hog Island, Nov., 1900), Barbados (Dec. 24, 1886), 
and western Alaska (small islands in Norton Sound). 
[Tringa] vanellus Linnaus, Syst. Nat., ed. fo, i, 1758, 148 (Sweden); ed. 12, i, 
1766, 248.—Boppazrt, Tabl. Pl. Enl., 1783, 15 (Pl. Eal., pl. 242). —GMELIN, 
Syst. Nat., i, pt. ii, 1789, 670.—Larnam, Index Orn., ii, 1790, 726. 
Tringa vanellus TeMMINCK, Cat. Syst., 1807, 172. 
C{haradrius] vanellus WacuER, Syst. Av., 1827, Charadrius, sp. 47. 
Charadrius vanellus Pattas, Zoogr. Rosso-Asiat., ii, 1826, 132.—Naumann, Vog. 
Deutschl., ix, 1838, 269, pl. 179.—Hoxm, Naturahist. Tidsskr., 2d ser., ii, 
1848, 512 (Farde Islands)—PAssuer, Journ. fiir Orn., 1856, 61 (Anhalt, 
Germany).—SrEBoxm, Ibis, 1882, 222 (Astrakhan), 425 (Samarcand). 
Vanellus vanellus AMERICAN OrnirHotocists’ Union, Check List, 1886, and 
2d ed., 1895, no. 269; 3d ed., 1910, p. 126—Durcner, Auk, iii, 1886, 438 
(Merrick, Long Island, 2 specs., late Dec., 1883).—Cory, Birds West Ind., 
1889, 297 (Barbados); Cat. West Ind. Birds, 1892, 1388—Exiaor, N. Am. 
Shore Birds, 1895, 163, pl. 52.—Suarps, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xxiv, 1896, 
166, 735.—Prers, Auk, xv, 1898, 195 (Ketch Harbor, Nova Scotia, 1 spec., 
March 17, 1897)—Fuemine, Auk, xviii, 1901, 272 (Hog Island, Bahamas, 
1 spec; Nov., 1900)—Hartert, Novit. Zool., viii, 1901, 306 (Canary 
Islands).—Poeesr, Journ. fiir Orn., 1902, 386 (n. e. China) —Harrerr and 
Grant, Novit. Zool., xii, 1905, 103 (San Miguel, Azores)—Ciarx (A. H.), 
Proc. Bost. Soc. N. H., xxxii, 1905, 248 (Barbados).—Brrse, Auk, xxiii, 
1906, 221 (Meccox Bay, Waterville, Long Island, 1 spec., fall 1905).—Brew- 
steR, Auk, xxiii, 1906, 221 (White Hills, Newfoundland, 1 spec., Nov. 23, 
1905). 
V[anellus] vanellus Ripaway, Man. N. Am. Birds, 1887, 172. 
[ Vanellus] vanellus Lichtenstein, Nom. Av. Mus. Berol., 1854, 95.—SHaRPE, 
Hand-list, i, 1899, 151—Forsrs and Rosinson, Bull. Liverp. Mus., ii, 
no. 2, 1899, 65. 
a Eleven specimens. » Seven specimens, 
. : Mid- 
Locality. Wing. | Tail. a Tarsus. a 
aaa 08, 
MALES. 
Six adult males from Europe (4) and western Asia (2) ssireinereveieesal 220.7} 104.3 23.9}. 46.1 26 
Five adult males from China..:-...........02.00.0eeceeceeeees 220.8} 109.6 26.1 47.4 26.2 
FEMALES. a 
Four adult females from Europe (3) and Egypt (1).......----- 220.5} 104 24.7 43.7] » 25.6 
Three adult femalesfrom China (1) and Japan (2)......-.-.---- 217.7 | 106.3 24.8 46.8] 26 
