BIRDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 259 
2 specs., prior to 1845; Choris Peninsula, Alaska; Shinnecock Bay, 
Long Island Sept. 15, 1892.)* 
[Zringa] alpina Linnaus, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, i, 1758, 149 (Lapland); ed. 12, i, 
1766, 249.—Brtinnicu, Orn. Bor., 1764, 52.—Gme.in, Syst. Nat., i, pt. ii, 
1789, 676.—Latuam, Index Orn., ii, 1790, 736.—TurtTon, Syst. Nat., i, 
1806, 407. 
Tringa alpina Fasricius, Fauna Groenlandica, 1780, 111.—Bopparrr, Tabl. 
Pl. Enl., 1783, 52 (Pl. Enl., pl. 852)—Tzmmincx, Cat. Syst., 1807, 171.— 
Vismtot, Nouv. Dict. d’Hist. Nat., xxxiv, 1819, 455.—Born, Isis, 1822, 
561; Journ. fir Orn., 1869, 96.—Lzsson, Traité d’Orn., 1831, 559.—Naumann, 
Vog. Deutschl., vii, 1834, 427, pl. 186.—Kavup, Thierr., ii, pt. i, 1836, 317.— 
NorpDMANN, in Demid. Voy. Russ. Mérid., iii, 1840, 238.—YaRRELL, Brit. 
Birds, ii, 1843, 658.—Ksarrsoniine, Danm. Fugle, Suppl., 1852, pl. 16, 
fig. 2—LituseBorc, Naumannia, 1882, 114 (Tromso, Norway).—Tostas, 
Journ. fir Orn., 1853, 214 (Oberlausitz)—PAssner, Journ. fir Orn., 1853, 
242 (Lapland).--Scumuine, Journ. fir Orn., 1853, 374 (Riigen).—MULizr, 
Journ. fiir Orn., 1856, 230 (Provence).—TristRam, Ibis, 1860, 80 (n. Africa); 
Fauna and Flora Palestine, 1884, 132.—Powys, Ibis, 1860, 343 (Epirus).— 
SuNDEVALL, Svensk Fogl., 1860, pl. 43, figs. 1, 2—Newron, in Baring- 
Gould’s Iceland, 1863, 413; Man. N. H. Greenland, 1875, 103.—Gray, List 
Brit. Birds, 1863, 167.—Buaxiston, Ibis, 1863, 132 (Hudson Bay).—Morgz, 
Ibis, 1865, 438 (breeding range in England).—Draxg, Ibis, 1867, 429 (Tan- 
gier, Morocco).—Smrru, Ibis, 1868, 455 (Portugal).—Drosre, Journ. fiir Orn., 
1869, 344 (Faroe Islands)—Euwes and Bucxtey, Ibis, 1870, 330 (Black Sea, 
Turkey).—Liuper, Journ. fir Orn., 1871, 301 (Stralsund).—Harrine, Proc. 
Zool. Soc. Lond., 1871, 115 (Choris Peninsula; crit.); Handh. Brit. Birds, 
1872, 49; Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1874, 242.—Rey, Journ. fiir Orn., 1872, 
154 (Portugal) —Durnrorp, Ibis, 1874, 400 (North Frisian Islands).— 
DanrortH and Harvisz-Brown, Ibis, 1875, 422 (Transylvania).—Scutty, 
Stray Feath., iv, 1876, 187 (e. Turkestan, breeding) Dresser, Ibis, 1876, 
411 (Turkestan); Birds Europe, viii, 1876, 21, pl. 548.—Srrsoum, Ibis, 
1879, 151 (Yenesei, Siberia, lat. 69°-703° N., breeding; descr. downy young; 
molt); 1882, 224 (Astrakhan), 381 (Archangel, n. Russia); 1883, 30 (Caucasus, 
in migration); 1892, 25 (Helgoland); Hist. Brit. Birds, iii, 1885, 184; Geog. 
Distr. Charadriide, 1887, pp. xxv, 425, figs —IFinscu, Verh. z.-b. Ges. Wien, 
xxix, 1879, 251 (tundra of Podarata River, breeding)—Etwes, Ibis, 1880, 
392 (Denmark; breeding?).—BritisHh OrnitHotocists’”Unron, List Brit. 
Birds, 1883, 169.—SaunpeErs, ed. Yarrell’s Brit. Birds, iii, 1883, 337; Ibis, 
1884, 389 (St. Jean de Luz, March); Man. Brit. Birds, 1889, 569.—SEVERTZOV, 
Ibis, 1883, 75 (Pamir Range, centr. Asia, Sept.).—Irpy, Ibis, 1883, 187 
(Santander, Spain, May).—Rappz, Orn. Caucas., 1884, 428 (Caspian Sea, 
winter).—WHITEHEAD, Ibis, 1885, 42 (Corsica, May).—Drxon, Ibis, 1885, 86 
(St. Kilda).—Yerrsury, Ibis, 1886, 21 (Aden, winter).—SuHarpe, Ibis. 1886, 
American Ornithologists’ Union Check List (several editions) as well as the Catalogue 
of Birds in the British Museum (vol. xxiv) both completely ignore Greenland in the 
geographic ranges of the two forms as there given. 
@The A. O..U. Check List (8rd ed., 1910, p. 116) states that P. a. alpina is acci- 
dental in ‘‘Massachusetts, New York, and District of Columbia;”’ but I have not been 
able to find the records, except that for New York (probably the Shinnecock Bay 
occurrence). I believe, however, that the alleged occurrence in the District of 
Columbia, based by H. M. Smith in Auk, iii, 1886, 140, on old entries in the U.S. 
National Museum catalogue of ‘‘ Tringa alpina” and “‘ Pelidna alpina”’ is an error, the 
specimens there referred to probably being both P. a. sakhalina. 
