BIRDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 301 
Winter plumage.—Above deep brownish gray or grayish brown 
between drab and hair brown), the feathers broadly blackish 
nedially or centrally, producing broad streaks on pileum and large 
pots on scapulars and interscapulars; foreneck and chest pale 
xrownish gray or grayish brown, narrowly and.indistinctly streaked 
vith dusky; otherwise as in summer. 
Young.—Much like summer adults, but whitish terminal margins 
© scapulars more distinct and continuous, pale margins to wing- 
‘overts less sharply defined, and texture of plumage distinctive 
‘softer and more lax). 
Adult male.—Wing, 87-93 (89.2); tail, 35.5-389 (37.1); exposed 
sulmen, 16.5-18 (17.1); tarsus, 20.5-21 (20.9); middle toe, 19-20.5 
(19.9).¢ 
Adult female.—Wing, 89.5-90.5 (92.2); tail, 35-41 (38.1); exposed 
sulmen, 17-19.5 (18.2); tarsus, 21-22.5 (21.7); middle toe, 20-21.5 
(20.6).% 
Breeding in eastern Siberia, Kamchatka (including Commander 
[slands), and Kuril Islands; migrating southward through China, 
Japan, etc., to Philippine Islands, Malay Peninsula, Burma, Ceylon, 
Borneo, Java, Celebes, northern Australia, etc.; accidental on Otter 
(sland, Pribilof group, Alaska (1 spec., June 8, 1885). 
Tringa subminuta MippENpDok®?, Reis. Sibir., Zool., 1851, 222 (west slope Stanovoi 
Mountains, Siberia, May 19; Uda River, June 30).—Scurencx, Reis. Amur- 
land, i, 1860, 424 (s. Amur, July).—Swinuos, Ibis, 1863, 97 ‘(northern China). 
—Rappe, Reis. Sibir., ii, Vég., 1863, 333 (Tarei-Nor, May).—JzRpon, Birds 
India, iii, 1864, 691.—DyBowsxi and Parvex, Journ. fiir Orn., 1868, 337 
(Durasun).—Taczanowsx1, Journ. fiir Orn., 1873, 103 (e. Siberia); Bull. 
Soc. Zool. France, i, 1876, 253 (s. e. Siberia); 1883, 339 (Kamchatka); Orn. 
Faun. Vost. Sibir., 1877, 56; Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1888, 457 (Seoul, Korea); 
Mém. Ac. Imp. St. Petersb., (7), xxxix, 1893, 914 (eastern Siberia).—Prun- 
vaLsKY, Rowley’s Orn. Misc., iii, 1878, 90 (s. e. Mongolia).—Lzcer, Birds 
Ceylon, 1880, 889.—Oatses, Handb. Birds Brit. Burma, ii, 1883, 391.— 
Buaxiston and Pryer, Trans. Asiat. Soc. Japan, x, 1882, 112.—Buaxiston, 
Amend. List Birds Japan, 1884, 21, 37 (Kuril Islands).—Szzsoum, Ibis, 
1884, 34 (China and Japan; crit.); Hist. Brit. Birds, iii, 1885, 204; Geog. Distr. 
Charadriidz, 1887, pp. xxv, 438; Birds Japanese Emp., 1890, 338 (Yokohama; 
Hakodate; Kuril Islands)—BoegpaNnow, Consp. Av. Imp. Ross., 1884, 92.— 
Nixotsxt, Ile Sakhal., 1886, 261.—SHarre, Ibis, 1890, 143, 287 (Abai, n. 
Borneo).—Styawn, Ibis, 1891, 330, 506 (lower Yangtse River, in migration); 
1894, 335 (Shanghai).—Harrert, Kat. Vogelsamml. Senckenb. Mus., 1891, 
221 (Java); Novit. Zool., xiii, 1916, 92 (crit. on the name). 
[Actodromus] subminuta Bonaparte, Compt. Rend., xliii, 1856, 596. 
Erolia subminuta Hartert, Novit. Zool., xxiii, 1916, 93. 
Eroha minutilla subminuta Hartert, Novit. Zool., xxiii, 1916, 93 (crit. on the 
name). 
Actodromas subminutus STEINEGER, Proc. U. 8. Nat. Mus., vi, 1883, 71 (Bering 
Island). 
@S8ix specimens. 
