BIRDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 2638 
Adult female.—Wing, 114-125 (117.4); tail, 44.5-56 (53); exposed 
culmen, 34-42 (38.3); tarsus, 25-27 (26); middle toe, 19.5-22 (20.4).¢ 
North America and eastern Asia; breeding from northern Ungava, 
Boothia, Melville Penisula, etc., westward through Arctic districts to 
mouth of Yukon River, and along Arctic coast of Siberia westward to 
mouth of the Yenesei River; migrating southward to southern Florida 
(Tarpon Springs; St. Johns Pass), Louisiana, Texas (Fort Brown; 
Tom Green County), Arizona (Tucson) anf Lower California (San 
Quentin Bay; south of lat. 24° 30’), and through Kamchatka, Korea, 
Japan, China, etc., to Formosa and Malay Archipelago. (No record 
from any portion of middle America, except Lower California.) 
[Tringa] alpina (not of Linneus, 1758) LatHam, Index Orn., ii, 1790, 736, part. 
Tringa alpina Witson, Am. Orn., vii, 1813, 25, pl. 56, fig. 2—Bonaparte, Ann. 
Lyc. N. Y., ii, 1826, 317.—Swarnson and RicHarpson, Fauna Bor.-Am., ii, 
1831, 383.—NutTraLL, Man. Orn. U. 8. and Can., Water Birds, 1834, 106.— 
AuDUBON, Orn. Biog., iii, 1835, 580, pl. 290; Synopsis, 1839, 234; Birds Am., 
8vo ed., v, 1842, 266, pl. 333.—TownsENp (J. K.), Journ. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 
viii, 1839, 156 (n. w. United States).—Prasopy, Rep. Orn. Mass., 1839, 367.— 
Giraup, Birds Long Is., 1844, 228.—Cassin, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., x, 
1858, 196 (Japan); xiv, 1862, 322 (Seniavine Straits); in Baird, Rep. Pacific 
R. BR. Surv., ix, 1858, 719.— Wiis, An. Rep. Smithson. Inst. for 1858 (1859), 
284 (Nova Scotia).—Buaxiston, Ibis, 1862, 330 (Japan).—Swinuos, Ibis, 
1863, 97 (n. China); 1866, 136 (Formosa, Sept.); 1870, 363 (Hainan); 1873, 368 
(Shanghai, April).—We1z, Proc. Bost. Soc. N. H., x, 1866, 267 (Labrador).— 
WuirTELy, Ibis, 1867, 205 (Hakodate, Japan, Nov., Jan.).—Hartine, Proc. 
Zool. Soc. Lond., 1871, 115 (Bering Straits)—Apams, Ibis, 1878, 438 (St. 
Michaels, Alaska, breeding).—Merrritt, Proc. U. 8. Nat. Mus., i, 1878, 161 
(Fort Brown, Texas).—Maynarp, Birds E. N. Am., 1879, 384.—SrEBoum, 
Ibis, 1884, 268 (Kiu-Kiang, China); Birds Japanese Emp., 1890, 334.—Smita 
a Seventeen specimens. 
Ex- 
P . . posed Middle 
Locality. Wing. | Tail. cul. | Parsus. toe. 
men. 
MALES. 
Ten adult males from Atlantic coast United States (migrants).] 114.5 51 36 25.3 20. 2 
Ten adult males from coast of Alaska................-..2.0-005 117.3 52.7 35.4 25.4 199 
Three adult males from Bering Island, Kamchatka............ 114.8 52.7 34.7 24.5 20.2 
One adult male from Korea (migrant).......0...2--020eeeeeeee “117 50-5] 33.5, 24 19.5 
One adult male from Japan (migrant).................2..20200 120 54 38.5 27 20 
Seven adult males of P. a, alpind........-...222222.0eeee eee eee 107.4 46.9 28.6 23.1 19 
FEMALES, 
Ten adult females from Atlantic coast of United States (mi- 
BFANS) faseca scan rswatoom no ntewignadasighian eeu auuraw ence mawemied abeeaiN 117.8 53.4 39. 4 26.3 20.8 
Five adult females from Alaska..............2....02002eeeeeee 118. 2 52.2 38 25.7 19.9 
One adult female from Bering Island...............2..-..0220+ 121 52.5 35.5 25 19.5 
One adult female from Japan......-......---.02-eeeeee eee e eens 116.5 53.5 39 26 205 
Thirteen adult females of P. a. alpind........2...2..ee cee e eens 110.9 48.4 32.5 23.5 18.9 
