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of sides rusty buff or cinnamon-buff narrowly streaked, anteriorly and 
laterally, with dusky; otherwise essentially like adults. 
Adult male.—Wing, 125-138.5 (131.7); tail, 52-60 (56); exposed 
culmen, 24-28.5 (26.2); tarsus, 28-29 (28.5); middle toe, 24~—25 
(24.5) .% 
Adult female—Wing, 120-126 (123); tail, 50-52.5 (51.4); exposed 
culmen, 23.5-25 (24.1); tarsus, 27-28 (27.6); middle toe, 23-24 
(23.7).° 
Breeding on Chukchi Peninsula, northeastern Siberia; migrating 
southward, through eastern Siberia, Kamchatka, Korea, China, Japan, 
etc., to Caroline Islands, Bismarck Archipelago, Tonga Islands, New 
Guinea, Australia, and New Zealand; in autumn also migrating east- 
ward to western Alaska (Kotzebue and Norton sounds, Pribilof Is- 
lands, and Aleutian Islands)¢ and British Columbia (Comox, Oct. 4, 
1903; Masset, Queen Charlotte Islands); casual in Hawaiian Islands 
(near Honolulu, 1 spec.; Maui, 1 spec.; Laysan, } spec.); accidental 
in England (coast of Norfolk, 2 specs.). 
(?) [Lringa] aurita Laraam, Index Orn., Suppl., 1801, p. lxvi (New South Wales; 
based on Brown-eared Sandpiper Latham, Gen. Synop. Birds, Suppl., ii, 1801, 
314).¢ 
(?) es aurita Vir1tLoT, Nouv. Dict. d’Hist. Nat., xxxiv, 1819, 470. 
Pisobia aufita AMERICAN ORNITHOLOGISTS’ Union Commirtez, Auk, xxv, July, 
1908, 366; Check List, 3rd ed., 1910, 113. : 
Totanus acuminatus HorseiELD, Trans. Linn. Soc., xiii, 1820, 192 (Java), 
Tringa acuminata Swinuog, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1863, 316 (Pekin and Amoy, 
China); 1871, 409 (China, in migration); Ibis, 1863, 412 (Formosa); 1873, 424 
(Shanghai, China); 1875, 455 (Hakodate, Japan).—ScuLeeet, Mus. Pays-Bas, 
a Two specimens. 
+ Four specimens. 
Most of the specimens examined (including all those from Alaska) are in juvenile 
plumage, birds in summer plumage being relatively rare in collections. There is a 
remarkable differeace in size between two adult males from Australia and New Zea- 
land, respectively, and I suspect there may be two forms, the respective breeding 
ranges of which remain to be determined. Their measurements are as follows: 
Ex- 
Locality. Wing. | Tail. | posed | Tarsus. Side 
culmen ‘08. 
MALES. 
One adult male from Sydney, Australia (Nov. 16)........... 125 52 24 28 24 
One adult male from Canterbury, New Zealand (date not re- 
COLGOG) wa: cc.cin seus acarhareaw ease nn Seam eames oe Seeremongeceanets: 138.5 60 28.5 28 25 
¢ All Alaskan specimens examined are young birds of the year. 
4 Latham’s Brown-eared Sandpiper was based on a ‘‘Watling” or ‘Lambert’? 
drawing (no. 244) now in the British Museum, which Sharpe (Hist. Coll. Brit. Mus., 
Birds, 1906, 147) identified as Tringa acuminata Horsfield. Mathews (Novit. Zool., 
Xviii, 1911, 7) has since examined this drawing and finds it a “‘good figure of Linné’s 
hypoleucos’’ (i. e., Actitts hypoleucos). 
