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Adult male——Wing, 129-136 (132.1); tail, 58-63 (60.6); exposed 
culmen, 19.5-20.5 (19.9); tarsus, 30-37 (32.1); middle toe, 20-21.5 
(20.8) .2 
Adult female.—Wing, 122-132 (127.2); tail, 54-62 (57); exposed 
culmen, 17.5-19.5 (18.4); tarsus, 29-31 (29.5); middle toe, 19-21 
(20).° 
Breeding in Arctic districts of North America, from northern 
Alaska to Keewatin; migrating southward through temperate North 
America (chiefly through Mississippi Valley), Mexico, Central America, 
and South America, east of Andes, as far as Argentina (Cérdova, 
Misiones; Buenos Aires; Moreno; Baraccas al Sud), Paraguay (upper 
Rio Parané), Uruguay (Montevidéo), and eastern Peru (upper Rio 
Ucayali; Pebas; Xeberos; Chamicuros; Yquitos; Cosnipata); in 
West Indies recorded only from Cuba and Barbados, where rare or 
accidental in autumn; accidental in Bermudas; not yet recorded 
from Greenland, but frequent straggler to British Islands (17 records) 
and accidental in France and Helgoland (1 record each); common 
migrant to Bering Sea coast of eastern Siberia (Cape Wankarem, etc.) 
and occasional migrant to shore of Sea of Okhotsk and northern 
Japan (Owari). 
Tringa subruficollis Viemtot, Nouv. Dict. d’Hist. Nat., xxxiv, 1819, 465 (Para- 
guay; based on Chorlito garganta blanco acanelado Azara, Apunt., ili, 1805, 
320).—Hartiaus, Index Azara’s Apunt., 1847, 25. 
T[ringa] subrujicollis Gray, Gen. Birds, iii, 1845, 580. 
Tryngites subruficollis Ripaway, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus., viii, Sept. 2, 1885, 356.— 
AMERICAN OrnITHOLOGISTS’ Union, Check List, 1886, and 2nd ed., 1895, 
no. 262; 3rd ed., 1910, p. 124.—Turner, Contr..N. H. Alaska, 1886, 189 
(Alaska).—Netson, Rep. N. H. Coll. Alaska, 1887, 119 (St. Michaels, Alaska, 
1 pair, May 31, 1880)—Luoyn, Auk, iv, 1887, 186 (Concho Co., Texas, 
Aug. 31).—Cory, Auk, iv, 1887, 319 (West Indian localities and references); 
Birds West Ind., 1889, 240; Cat. West Ind. Birds, 1892, 94 (Cuba).—_Cooxg, 
Bird Migr. Miss. Val., 1888, 97-—Dutcuer, Auk, vi, 1889, 136 (Long Island 
records).—CHERRIE, Auk, vii, 1890, 332 (San Jose, Costa Rica, Sept. 
25-Nov. 15); ix, 1892, 329 (San Jose)—Macxkay, Auk, ix, 1892, 389 (Nan- 
tucket Island, Massachusetts, Aug. 26-Sept. 8).—Stresnecer, Proc. U. S. 
Nat. Mus., xvi, 1893, 616 (Owari, Japan).—Stonz, Birds E. Penn. and N. J., 
1894, 77 (coast New Jersey, rare)—Exiiot, N. Am. Shore Birds, 1895, 145, 
pl. 45.—Trowsripcr, Auk, xiv, 1897, 209 (New England references).— 
Posson, Auk, xvi, 1899, 194 (Orleans Co., w. New York, fall 1897).—Bryan, 
‘Auk, xvi, 1899, 276 (Calumet Lake, Cook Co., Illinois, Sept. 18, 1898).— 
ALLEN, Bull. Am. Mus. N. H., xiii, 1900, 125 (Cienega, Santa Marta, Colom- 
bia, Sept.)—Satvin and Gopman, Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, iii, 1903, 384 
(Matamoros, Tamaulipas; Guanajuato; Ruatan I., Honduras; San Jose 
Costa Rica; Amazon Valley, Brazil; Paraguay: e. Siberia; accidental in 
Europe).—TaverNER and Swatss, Wilson Bull., no. 60, 1907, 87 (Point 
Pelee, Ontario, 1 spec., Aug. 29, 1907).—Norton, Auk, xxv, 1908, 81 (Scar- 
borough, Maine, 1 spec., Sept. 5, 1907)—Carriker, Ann. Carnegie Mus., 
vi, 1910, 422 (Costa Rica)—DaBBENE, Orn. Argent., 1910, 219 (Cérdoba, 
@ Seven specimens. 5 Four specimens. 
