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of head light brownish buffy, broken by a loral streak, a rictal streak, 
and a median frontal streak of brownish black; under parts dull 
buffy white. 
Adult male.—Wing, 118-129 (123.8); tail, 57-64 (59.7); exposed 
culmen, 26.5-35 (29.3); tarsus, 21-23 (21.8); middle toe, 21.5-23.5 
(22.4). 
Adult female.—Wing, 115-130 (124.2); tail, 52-66 (59.4); exposed 
culmen, 27.5-34 (29.5); tarsus, 21-23.5 (22); middle toe, 21.5-24 
(22.5).® 
Northeastern North America, breeding from Melville Island 
and Ellesmere Land southward to Melville Peninsula, eastward to 
Greenland; also in Iceland, Faroe Islands; and Arctic Europe and 
Asia, as far as Taimyr Peninsula; migrating southward along Atlantic 
coast of North, America, regularly to Long Island, irregularly or 
casually to southern Florida (Caloosahatchie River; Gordons Pass; 
Key West), shores of Great Lakes (Cleveland, Ohio, rare; Cook Co., 
Illinois, June, 1895, Nov., 1886), and to British Islands, Azores, 
and Mediterranear. coasts of Europe. 
[ Tringa] maritima Brisnnicu, Orn. Bor., 1764, 54 (Christiansoé Island; Norway).— 
GmE.in, Syst. Nat., i, pt. ii, 1789, 678.—LatHam, Index Orn., ii, 1790, 731.— 
Turton, Syst. Nat., i, 1806, 409—RzinHarpt, Journ. fiir Orn., 1854, 441 
(Greenland).—Gray, Hand-list, iii, 1871, 49, no. 10302.—Covgs, Key N. Am. 
Birds, 1872, 256. 
Tringa maritima Sasine (E.), Trans. Linn. Soc., xii, 1819, 532 (Hare Island, 
June; Possession Bay, Sept.); in Parry’s lst Voy., 1824, App., p. eci (Davis 
Strait and Baffin Bay, breeding)—Visittor, Nouv. Dict. d’Hist. Nat., 
xxxiv, 1819, 471—Temmincx, Man. d’Orn., ii, 1820, 619; iii, 1840, 404.— 
RicHaRDson, in Parry’s 2nd Voy., 1824, 354 (Winter Island, June).—Ross 
(J. C.), in Parry’s 3d Voy., 1826, 101 (Port Bowen, June); in Parry’s Narra- 
tive, 1828, 194 (shores of Hecla Cove); in Ross’s 2nd Voy., Nat. Hist., 1835, 
p. xxii (Fury Point; Melville Island)—Wernzr, Atlas, Grallatores, 1827, 
pl. ii—Bonaparte, Ann. Lyc. N. Y., ii, 1827, 318; Geog. and Comp. List, 
a Fourteen specimens. 
b Sixteen specimens. 
Ex- 
Locality. Wing. | Tail. Posed Tarsus. Hodis 
men, 
MALES. 
Fourteen adult males of A. maritm4...........00200deeeceeeeeee 123.8 59.7 29.3 21.8 22.4 
Thirty-two adult males of A. ptilocnemis cowesi...........++-++ 117.6 54.4 26.3 22.5 22.5 
Highteen adult males of A. ptilocnemis ptilocnemis...........-- 126.5 59.1 30.4 23.1 22.6 
FEMALES. 
Sixteen adult females of A. maritima..........--.----++0--22e ++ 124.2} 59.4] 29.5) 22 | 225 
Thirty adult females of A. plilocnemis cowesi.......--.....2--5+ 120.2 55. 2 29.6) 22.9 23.3 
Twenty-seven adult females of A. ptilocnemis ptilocnemis...... 129. 2 $0.1 33 23.3 23.2 
40017—19—Bull. 50, pt 8S——17 
