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and Bannister, Trans. Chicago Ac. Sci., i, 1869, 291 (Pastolik and mouth of 
Yukon River, Alaska).—FrRanrzivs, Journ. fiir Orn., 1869, 377 (Costa Rica).— 
Aten, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., iii, 1872, 171, 181 (Ogden, Utah, after Sept. 
25).—Ripeway, Bull. Essex Inst., v, 1873, 187 (Colorado).—Mzrriam, 
Rep. U.S. Geol. Surv. Terr., 1878, 714 (Utah).—HEnsuaw, Ann. Lyc. N.Y., 
xi, 1874, 11 (Utah); Zool. Exped. West of 100th Merid., 1875, 453 (Rush Lake, 
Utah, Oct. 1; Denver, Colorado, July 24; Mimbres, Arizona, Oct. 22).— 
Cours, Birds Northwest, 1874, 476 (excl. synonymy, part; Bull. U. 8. 
Geol. and Geog. Surv. Terr., iv, 1878, 638 (Souris River, North Dakota, 
Aug.-Oct.).—Apams, Ibis, 1878, 438 (St. Michaels, Alaska; habits).—BrLp- 
ING, Proc. U. 8. Nat. Mus., i, 1879, 440 (Stockton, California, April, Nov.).— 
Hartiavs, Journ. fiir Orn., 1883, 279 (Alaska).—SHaRPe, Cat. Birds Brit. 
Mus., xxiv, 1896, 394, 751, part (St. Michaels, Alaska; Bering Straits; Van- 
couver Island; California; Yokohama, Japan; etc.).—Satvin and Gopmay, 
Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, iii, 1903, 368, part.—CarrikerR, Ann. Carnegie 
Mus., vi, 1910, 418 (Costa Rica; crit.). 
(?) Macrorhamphus griseus BLAaKIsTON, Ibis, 1863, 131 (Fort Carlton, Saskatch- 
ewan).—TaczaNowskI, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1877, 748 (Santa Lucia, 
Peru).—Sciater and Savin, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1879, 547 (Medellin, 
Antioquia, Colombia).—Satvin, Ibis, 1889, 379 (Cozumel Island, Yucatan).— 
Seton, Auk, iii, 1886, 151 (Manitoba).—Lioyp, Auk, iv, 1887, 185 (Tom 
Green and Concho counties, Texas, Sept.).—Ssnnert, Auk, v, 1888, 110 
(Corpus Christi, Texas, June 11, 1 pair) —Satvapori and Festa, Boll. Mus. 
Zool., etc., Torino, xv, 1900, 44 (Cafiar, centr. Ecuador). 
[Macrorhamphus] griseus Cours, Key N. Am. Birds, 1872, 253, part.—SHarpz, 
Hand-list, i, 1899, 159, part. 
Macroramphus griseus TaczaNowskI, Journ. fiir Orn., 1873, 112 (n. e. Siberia). 
M[acroramphus] griseus GAMBEL, Journ. Ac. Sci. Phila., 2d ser., i, 1849, 224 
(coast of California). 
(?) Scolopax novoboracensis (not of Gmelin?) Swainson and RicHarpson, Fauna. 
Bor.-Am., ii, 1831, 398 (Saskatchewan plains). : 
Macrorhamphus griseus griseus Brooxs and Coss, Auk, xxviii, 1911, 467 (e. 
Alberta; see Auk, xxix, 1912, 400). 
Genus MICROPALAMA Baird. 
Micropalama Bairp, Rep. Pacific R. R. Surv., ix, 1858, 726. (Type, by origi- 
nal designation, Tringa himantopus Bonaparte.) 
Micropelama (emendation) Gray, Hand-list, iii, 1871, 48. 
Hemipalama (not of Bonaparte, 1825) Bonapartrr, Specch. Comp., 1827, 61; 
Ann. Lyc. Nat. Hist. N. Y., ii, 1828, 316. (Type, Tringa himantopus Bona- 
parte.) 
Medium-sized Eroliine (wing 116-137 mm.) with very long, 
slender legs (tarsus as long-as or longer than slender, greatly com- 
pressed, bill, the latter nearly one-third as long as wing), bare 
portion of tibia half as long as tarsus, and with web between basal 
phalanges of both middle and outer and middle and inner toes. 
Bill slender, straight, very much compressed (except terminally), 
slightly tapering in lateral profile, the edges parallel in vertical profile 
to near tip, where distinctly expanded; exposed culmen nearly as 
long as tarsus; nasal groove rather narrow, extending to base of 
laterally expanded tip of maxilla, the mandible also with a distinct 
