BIRDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 309 
Adult female.—Wing, 117-127 (123); tail, 47.5-54.5 (52.8); ex- 
ised culmen, 24-28 (26); tarsus, 23-26 (24.7); middle toe, 16-17 
6.1).¢ 
Breeding in Arctic districts of both hemispheres (Melville Island, 
lesmere Land, northern Mackenzie, Point Barrow, etc., in North 
merica; Greenland; Iceland; Taimyr Peninsula, etc., Siberia); 
igrating southward, chiefly along seacoasts, as far as Galapagos 
rchipelago (Abingdon, Albemarle, Bindloe, Charles, Chatham, 
ood, James, Jervis, and Seymour islands), Chile (Telcahuano; 
avanche; Coquimbo Bay), and Patagonia (Tambo Point) in America, 
1 southern Africa, Aden, India, Burma, Ceylon, Borneo, Jaluit, 
arshall Islands, Christmas Island, Hawaiian Islands, etc., in Eastern 
emisphere; in America wintering from coast of Virginia, Texas, 
ermudas, California, etc., southward, casually as far northward as 
yasts of Massachusetts and Washington; in Eastern Hemisphere 
intering from Mediterranean shores and Japan southward. 
Tringa leuwcophaca Pauias, in Vroeg’s Cat., 1764, 32 (northern coast of Holland; 
not binomial here; see Stone, Auk, xxxix, 1912, 205-208). 
Calidris leucophea AMERICAN ORNITHOLOGISTS’ Union CommitrEz, Auk, xxv, 
July, 1908, 367; Check List, 3d ed., 1910, 118.—Brooxs (W. 8.), Bull. Mus. 
Comp. Zool., lix, 1915, 382 (Demarcation Point, Alaska, Aug. 30).—Wer- 
more, Bull. 326, U. S. Dept. Agric., 1916, 43 (Porto Rico, rare migrant). 
Calidris leucophaea leucophaea Matuews, List of the Birds of Australia, 1913, 69. 
Calidris leucophaea tridactyla Marurws, List of the Birds of Australia, 1913, 69. 
Arenaria leucophoea Matuews, Birds Australia, iii, pt. 3, Aug. 18, 1913, pl. [158] 
facing p. 241. 
Arenaria leucophexa leucophea MatuEws, Birds Australia, iii, pt. 3, Aug. 18, 1913, 
244 (Europe). 
Trynga (alba) Pauas, in Vroeg’s Cat., 1764, (Adumbr.), 7, no. 320 (coast of North 
Sea). 
eee arenaria Linnaus, Syst. Nat., ed. 12, i, 1766, 251 (Europe).—GmeEtin, 
Syst. Nat., i, pt. ii, 1789, 680.—Turton, Syst. Nat., i, 1806, 410. . 
@ Thirteen specimens. 
Ex- 
Locality. Wing. | Tail. pee Tarsus. a es 
men. 
MALES. 
ieadult male from Europe (Helgoland)........-....-...---- 120 47,5 23 23 15 
7o adult males from Aldabra Island (near Madagascar)...... 115.5 48 24, 2 23.2 15 
nadult males from coast of Virginia............--.-....--+-- 119.4 51 24.9 23.8 15.6 
te adult male from Alaska (Point Barrow).........-.-------- 122 51 25 24.5 16 
FEMALES. 
70 adult females from Europe. ...........22-.0--022222 eee eee 122.7 49, 2 24 25 16 
.e adult female from Aldabra Island..............-...--+---- 126 52 26 23.5 16 
ne adult females from Atlantic coast of North America...... 122.7 52.3 26.3 24.8 16.1 
ie adult female from Lower California. ...........- Sipictbsaseenisiese 124 54.5 26 25 16 
