BIRDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 281 
Adult male.—Wing, 114-122 (118.7); tail, 48-53 (51.1); exposed 
culmen, 20.5-23 (21.7); tarsus, 20-23 (21.1); middle toe, 16-18 
(17.2).¢ 
Adult female.—Wing, 119-126 (122.3); tail, 49-54 (51.7); exposed 
culmen, 21.5-24 (22.8); tarsus, 20-23 (21.4); middle toe, 16.5-19 
(17.4).¢ 
Breeding on or near Arctic coast of North America, from Point 
Barrow, Alaska, to northern Keewatin; migrating southward, chiefly 
between Rocky Mountains and Mississippi River, through Mexico, 
Central America, and South America as far as Chile (Santiago; Con- 
cepcién; Huasco; Sacaya; Caucosa; Lake Huasco; Cueva Negra, 
Tarapacé), Argentina (Cérdova; Tucum4n; Misiones; Buenos Aires; 
Conchitas; Mendoza), Uruguay (Rio Sauce), and Paraguay; occurs 
frequently but irregularly, during autumn migration, along Atlantic 
coast from Maine southward, and along Pacific coast from Norton 
Sound, Alaska, southward; casual in Galépagos Archipelago (Bar- 
rington Island) and on Cocos Island; accidental in England and in 
southwestern Africa (Walvisch Bay, Damara Land, Oct. 24, 1863); 
occasional in northeastern Siberia (Arakamachachi Island, near St. 
Lawrence Bay). 
(2) Tringa melanotos Vietxot, Nouv. Dict. d’Hist. Nat., xxxiv, 1819, 462 (Para- 
guay; based on Chorlito lomo negro Azara, Apunt. Parag., Ui, 1805, 317).— 
Harriaus, Index Azara’s Apunt., 1847, 25.—Casanis, Journ. ftir Orn., 
1878, 199 (Argentina). : 
(?) Tlringa] melanotos Gray, Gen. Birds, iii, 1845, 579. 
[Tringa] melanotis PELZELN, Orn. Bras., 1870, 457. 
Scheniclus schinzii (not Tringa schinzii Brehm) Gray, List Birds Brit. Mus., iii, 
Gralle, 1844, 105 (Chile). 
Tringa schinzii WoopHovsE, in Sitgreaves’ Rep. Expl. Zufii and Col. R., 1853, 
100, excl. syn. (Indian Territory; New Mexico). 
(2) [Pelidna] dorsalis LicurensteIn, Nom. Av. Mus. Berol., 1854, 92 (nomen 
nudum; Tropical America). 
Tringa dorsalis BuRMEISTER, Syst. Ueb. Th. Bras., iii, 1856, 374; Reise La Plata 
Staaten, ii, 1861, 503 (Mendoza, Argentina). 
(?)Pelidna pectoralis (not Tringa pectoralis Say) Cassin, in Rep. U. S. Astron. 
Exped. (Gilliss), ii (Birds), 1855, 195 (Chile). 
Tringa bonapartii (not of Schlegel) Cassin, in Baird, Rep. Pacific R. R. Surv., 
ix, 1858, 722, part (Omaha; Fort Kearney; Yellowstone River).—Barrp, 
Cat. N. Am. Birds, 1859, no. 533, part—HaybrEn, Trans. Am. Philos. Soc., 
xii, 1862, 174 (‘throughout the watercourses of the Northwest?’). 
Actodromas bonapartti HENRY, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1859, 108 (New Mexico). 
Actodromas bairdit CovEs, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., xiii, 1861, 194 (Fort Resolu- 
tion, Great Slave Lake, Mackenzie; coll. U. S. Nat. Mus.); 1866, 97 (Fort 
Whipple, Arizona).—Sciater, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1862, 369 (Mexico).— 
Datt and Bannister, Trans. Chicago Ac. Sci., i, 1869, 292 (Sitka, Kadiak, 
Amak Island, and Yukon River, Alaska).— ALLEN, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., 
iii, 1872, 182 (western edge of Great Plains, Aug.).—BrewsTeER, Am. Nat., vi, 
1872, 306 (Long Island in Boston Harbor, Aug. 27, 1870)—Brerwer, Proc. 
a Nine specimans. 
