BIRDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 121 
Adult male.—Wing, 122.5-138 (127.8); tail, 56.5-67 (59.8) ; culmen, 
12-15 (13.7); tarsus, 23-27 (24.7); middle toe, 16-18 (16.8) .2 
Adult female.—Wing, 129-132 (130.5); tail, 61-63 (62); culmen, 
14-16 (15); tarsus, 24.5; middle toe, 16-17 (16.5).° 
Breeding from head of Cumberland Gulf (western shore), Smith 
Sound (Buchanan Strait, lat. 74° 48’ N.), Greenland (Disko Island; 
Port Kennedy; Lichtenfels; Prince Regent’s Inlet; Hecla Cove), 
Iceland, British Islands (including Faroes and Shetlands), Norway, 
etc., to Turkestan and eastern Siberia (Nijni Kolymsk; Gichiga; 
Marcova), northward to Spitzbergen and Seven Islands (lat. 813° 
N.); winters on shores of Mediterranean Sea and throughout Africa, 
including Madeira and Canary Islands; occasional in northwestern 
India and accidental in Barbados (Chancery Lane, Sept. 10), Chile, 
and southern Alaska (Sitka). 
[Charadrius] hiaticula Linnzus, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, i, 1758, 150 (Sweden); ed. 12, 
i, 1766, 253, part— Genin, Syst. Nat., i, pt. ii, 1789, 683, part—Latam, 
Index Orn., ii, 1790, 743, part.—Turton, Syst. Nat., i, 1806, 411.—ReIn- 
HarpT (J.), Journ. fiir Orn., 1854, 440 (Greenland).—Gray, Hand-list, iii, 
1871, 15, no. 9998. 
Charadrius hiaticula Viertior, Nouv. Dict. d’Hist. Nat., xxvii, 1818, 139.—Rovx, 
Orn. Prov., 1825, pl. 275.—Werrner, Atlas, Coureurs, 1827, pl. 7._Fox, 
Newc. Mus., 1827, 90.—Lesson, Traité d’Om., 1831, 544.—Naumann, Vog. 
Deutschl., vii, 1833, 291, pl. 175.—GouLp, Birds Europe, iv, 1837, pl. 296 
and text.—Hay, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1840, 135 (Tangiers, Morocco).— 
Maceittivray, Man. Brit. Orn., ii, 1840, 52; Brit. Birds, iv, 1850, 116 —SEtys- 
Lonecuamps, Faune Belge, 1842, 120.—YaRRELL, Brit. Birds, ii, 1843, 401.— 
Frazer, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1844, 67 (Tripoli).—Scutrcet, Rev. Crit., 
1844, 83; Vog. Nederl., 1854, pl. 213; Dier. Nederl. Vogels, 1861, pl. 21, figs. 
5, 6; Mus. Pays-Bas, iv, no. 29 (Cursores), 1865, 26.—HeEwitson, Eggs Brit. 
Birds, ii, 1846, 255, pl. 69, figs. 1, 2—Tmenemann, Abbild. Vogeleieren, 
1845-56, pl. 59.—Houm, Naturhist. Tidsskr., 2nd ser., ii, 1848, 483 (Faroe 
Islands).—Tuompson, Birds Ireland, ii, 1850, 96—WoLtEy, Jardine’s 
Contr. Orn., 1850, 108 (Faroe Islands, breeding).—SrricKLanD, Proc. Zool. 
@ Fifteen specimens. b Two specimens. 
‘ . . Cul- Middle 
Locality. Wing. | Tail. fap: Tarsus. +06. 
MALES. 
One adult male from Russia ...........-----2--0eeee eee eee ee eee 124 59 12 23 17.5 
One adult male from Norway............2-..2-.2 eee e eee e eee e ee 130.5 62.5 14.5 24 16.5 
Four adult males from England. ....-....------.---------+-20-- 131.7 63.6 14 25.6 17.2 
One adult male from France. ..............2..2eee eee e enone ee 125.5 58 14 27 17 
One adult male from Spain....-....-...02-.02 2.22 eee eee eee 128.5 58 14.5 24 16.5 
One adult male from Italy........2..22 2.22.2 e eee eee eee eee 122.5 57 14 24 16.5 
Two adult males from eastern Siberia...............2-.-.---+-+ 127 59 13.5 25.2 17 
Two adult males from head of Cumberland Gulf............... 124.5 56.7 13.2 23 16.5 
Two adult (males) from Greenland.................2-.22-22+++ 127.7] 58.5 13.2 25 16.2 
FEMALES, 
One adult female from England... .............2...2.eeeeeee eee 132 63 16 24.5 16 
One adult female from France........--.------.02e-ee sees scene 129 61 14 24.5 17 
