292 BULLETIN 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 
Adult female.—Wing, 95-104 (100.6); tail, 39-46.5 (43.5); exposed 
culmen, 16.5-18 (17.4); tarsus, 17.5-20 (18.6); middle toe, 14-16 
(15.6).% 
Breeding in delta of the Lena River, northeastern Siberia; migrating 
southward, through eastern Siberia, Kamchatka (including Com- 
mander Islands), Korea, Kuril Islands, Japan, China, Formosa, 
Philippine Islands, Burma, Malay Peninsula, etc., to Andaman and 
Nicobar Islands, Aru Islands, Salawati, Duke of York Island, and 
Australia; casual or accidental in western Alaska (Nome, July 10, 
1908, breeding).? 
Trynga ruficollis Pauias, Reis. Russ. Reichs, iii, 1776, 700 (Kulussutai, e. Siberia), 
Tringa ruficollis Viz1ttotT, Nouv. Dict. d’ Hist. Nat., xxxiv, 1819, 461.—Wapen, 
Trans. Zool. Soc. Lond., ix, 1875, 234 (Luzon, Philippines, Feb.).—Davip 
and Ovustatet, Ois. Chine, 1877, 472.—Humer, Stray Feath., viii, 1879, 
113; xi, 1888, 323 (Manipur, India).—Ketnam, Ibis, 1882, 17 (Singapore).— 
Buaxiston and Prrer, Trans. Asiat. Soc. Japan, x, 1882, 112.—Oartss, 
Handb. Birds Brit. Burma, ii, 1883, 390.—Buaxisron, Amend. List Birds 
Japan, 1884, 37 (Kuril Islands).—Szesoum, Ibis, 1884, 34, 308 (Kiukiang, 
China).—Boapanow, Consp. Av. Imp. Ross., 1884, 93.—SHarpz, Ibis, 
1884, 203 (Palawan); 1890, 148 (Pulo Tega, April).—Patmin, Vega-Exped., 
Fogelf., 1887, 324.—Everett, Journ. Straits Branch Asiat. Soc., 1889, 207 
(Labuan).—WHITEHEAD, Ibis, 1890, 59 (Palawan, Sept.).—Srzzre, List 
Birds and Mam. Exped. Philip., 1890, 26 (Palawan).—CampseELL, Ibis, 1892, 
246 (Korea).—Dr ta Toucue, Ibis, 1892, 499 (Foochow, China).—Lrecx, 
Proc. Austral. Assoc., 1892, 24.—Styan, Ibis, 1893, 437 (Hainan).— 
Taczanowsk!, Mém. Acad. Imp. Sci. St. Petersb., (7); xxxix, 1893, 920.— 
Dresser, Ibis, 1908, 489, pl. 10, figs. 7-9 (delta of Lena River, n. e. Siberia, 
breeding; descr. nest and eggs). 
[Tringa] ruficollis LatHam, Index Orn., ii, 1790, 736 (near Salt Lakes of Danube). 
Actodromas rujicollis STEINEGER, Bull. U.S. Nat. Mus., no. 29, 1885, 118 (Seniavine 
Straits and Bering Island, Kamchatka; crit.); Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., x, 
1887, 130 (Commander Islands). 
Limonites ruficollis Saarre, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xxiv, 1896, 545, 767.—THAYER, 
Condor, xi, 1909, 173 (Nome, Alaska, breeding).—Buturiin, Condor, xii, 
@.Ten specimens. 
Ex: . 
Locality. Wing. | Tail. | posed | Tarsus, Middle 
iculmen = 
MALES, 
Ten adult males of P. ruficollis...........002200ceecee ee eeeeeees 97.3 43.1 16,4 18.3 15.2 
Two adult males of P. minuta...........002 2000 ccc ee ee cceeeees 91 38 17.5 19.5 15 
FEMALES. 
Ten adult females of P. ruficollis.........0....0ccccencen eee eees 100. 6 43.5 16.5 18.6 15.6 
Six adult females of P. minuta..........22220cccceeeceeee eee eee 94.9 40.6 18.3 20.4 15.5 
> This record, however, together with one of an alleged North American specimen 
in the collection of Count X. Branicki, Warsaw, Poland, is discredited by the A. O. 
U. Committee (Check List, 3rd ed., 1910, 371). 
