BIRDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 279 
A[ctodromas] acuminata Cougs, Key N. Am. Birds, 2d ed., 1884, 628. 
Actodromas acuminatus STEINEGER, Bull. U. 8. Nat. Mus., no. 29, 1885, 115 
(Bering Island, Kamchatka; synonymy, measurements, etc.); Proc. U.S. 
Nat. Mus., x, 1887, 130 (Commander Islands). 
Tringa (Actodromas) acuminata Patmin, ‘ Vega’-Exped., 1887, 323 (Cape Wanka- 
rem, u. e. Siberia, Aug.). 
Heteropygia acuminata Suarpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xxiv, 1896, 566, 767.— 
Harrert, Novit. Zool., vi, 1899, 215, 216 (St. Aignan, Louisiade Archi- 
pelago); vii, 1900, 8 (Ruk Island, centr. Carolines). 
[Heteropygia] acuminata SHarre, Hand-list, i, 1899, 163.—Forses and Rosinson, 
Bull. Liverp. Mus., ii, no. 2, 1899, 72. 
Heteropygia acuminatus Harrerr, Novit. Zool., xii, 1905, 202 (Alligator River, 
n. w. Australia). 
Pisobia acuminata THAayveR and Banos, Proc. New Engl. Zool. Club, v, 1914, 15 
(Nijni Kolymsk, etc., n. e. Siberia, May, June). 
Erolia acuminata Matuews, Birds Australia, iii, pt. 3, Aug. 18, 1913, pl. [161] 
facing p. 255. 
Tringa australis (not of Gmelin®) Jarpine and SExy, Illustr. Orn., ii, 1836, pl. 91. 
Scheniclus australis Gray, List Birds Brit. Mus., ili, Gralle, 1844, 105 (South 
Australia; Rottness Island; West Australia; Port Essington).—Goutp, Birds 
Australia, vi, 1847, pl. 30 and text; Introd. Birds Australia, 1848, 100.—Sturt, 
Exp. Centr. Austral., ii, 1849, App., 50.—Re1cHEenBacs, Vég. Neuholl., 1850, 
22; Grallatores, 1851, pl. 290, figs. 2378, 2379.—Maceriivray, Narr. Voy. 
‘Rattlesnake,’ ii, 1852, 358.—Ramsay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N. 8. W., iv, 1880, 
101 (South Cape; Louisiades). 
?[Pelidna] australis Licutenstein, Nom. Av. Mus. Berol., 1854, 92 (Australia). 
[Actiturus] australis Bonaparte, Compt. Rend., xliii, 1856, 597. 
Actodromas australis Ripaway, Proc. U. 8. Nat. Mus., v, 1882, 331. 
Tringa subarquata (not Scolopaz subarquata Giildenstadt) Mtiuzr (S.), Verh. 
Land-en Volkenk., 1839-44, 110 (Amboina). 
Tringa rufescens (not of Bechstein, 1809) MippEenporrr, Sibir. Reis., Vég., 1851, 
221 (s. coast Sea of Okotsk, June). 
Tringa, sp. Swinuoz, Ibis, 1860, 359 (Amoy); 1861, 342 (between Takow and 
Peking). 
Tringa pectoralis (not of Say) Swinwog, Ibis, 1863, 97 (n. China). 
Tringa crassirostris (not of Temminck and Schlegel) Taczanowskx1, Journ. fiir 
_ Orn., 1873, 103. ; 
PISOBIA BAIRDI (Coues). 
BAIRD’S SANDPIPER, 
Adulis in summer (sexes alike).—General color of upper parts pale 
grayish buff, the pileum broadly streaked with sooty black, the hind- 
neck more narrowly streaked with the same, the interscapulars broadly 
black medially, the scapulars with large irregular spots of black; wing- 
coverts light grayish brown (nearest pale drab-gray), indistinctly 
margined with paler and with narrow and indistinct dusky shaft- 
streaks—the more anterior lesser coverts darker and more uniform 
grayish brown; greater coverts passing into dull buffy whitish at 
tips; secondaries darker grayish brown or brownish gray, narrowly 
edged with paler, the edgings passing terminally into white (broadly 
a=Canutus canutus. 
