BIRDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 413 
Adult male.—Wing, 200.5-214 (206.3) ; tail, 77-83.5 (80.1); exposed 
culmen, 48-58 (51.3); tarsus, 39.5—44 (42.1); middle toe, 24-26 (25.1) .¢ 
Adult female.—Wing, 189.5-215 (203.8); tail, 76-82 (79.8); ex- 
posed culmen, 47-60 (54.9) ; tarsus, 41-45 (43.9) ; middle toe, 25.5-27.5 
(26.3). 
Breeding on the barren grounds of Arctic America, from Norton 
Sound, Alaska, to northern Mackenzie (valley of Anderson River; 
Point Lake); migrating southward, through eastern North America 
and West Indies (Porto Rico; Barbados; Grenada) to Falkland 
Islands, Patagonia (Chupat Valley), Uruguay (Concepcién; Monte- 
vidéo), Paraguay, Argentina (Entre Rios; Buenos Aires), and Chile; 
accidental or casual in Bermudas, California (San Diego, Sept., 
1883), in Galapagos archipelago (Charles Island), Greenland (2 records), 
Iceland, and British Islands (5 records); one record for Guatemala 
(San Geronimo, April, ); northeastern Siberia (Cape Wankarem, 
Aug. 6, 1881)? (Now nearly extinct.) 
Scolopax borealis Forster, Philos. Trans., xii, 1772, 411 (Albany Fort, Keewatin), 
431 (Hudson Bay). : 
S[colopax] borealis Bonaparte, Journ. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., v, 1825, 73 (crit.); 
Obs. Nom. Wilson’s Am. Orn., 1826, [155]. 
[Numenius] borealis Lataam, Index Orn., ii, 1790, 712.—Marrens, Journ. fiir 
Orn., 1859, 219 (Bermudas).—Lawrence, Ann. Lyc. N. Y., viii, 1866, 294 
(vicinity New York City).—Gray, Hand-list, iii, 1871, 42, no. 10255.— 
Covges, Key N. Am. Birds, 1872, 262.—Scnarer and Satvin, Nom. Av. 
Neotr., 1873, 146.—D’Hamonvitue, Cat. Ois. Eur., 1876, 50 (Scotland).— 
GunpiacH, Journ. fiir Orn., 1878, 161 (Porto Rico).—Cory, List Birds 
West Ind., 1885, and revised ed., 1886, 27.—SHarpe, Hand-list, i, 1899, 
158.—ForsBeEs and Rosinson, Bull. Liverp. Mus., ii, no. 2, 1899, 69 (Pictou, 
_ Nova Scotia). ; 
Numenius borealis Viztttot, Nouv. Dict. d’Hist. Nat., viii, 1817, 302.— 
Bonaparte, Ann. Lyc. N. Y., ii, 1826, 314; Synopsis, 1828, 314; Am. Orn., 
iv, 1833, 118, pl. 26, fig. 3; Geog. and Comp. List, 1838, 49.—Swarnson and 
Ricwarpson, Fauna Bor.—Am., ii, 1831, 378, pl. 65 (Point Lake, Mackenzie, 
breeding).—Lzsson, Traité d’Orn., 1831, 566.—Nutratt, Man. Orn. U. S. 
and Can., Water Birds, 1834, 101.—AupuBon, Orn. Biog., iii, 1835, 69, pl. 
208; v, 1839, 590; Synopsis, 1839, 255; Birds Am., 8vo ed., vi, 1843, 45, pl. 357. 
—Navmann, Vog. Deutschl., viii, 1836, 506.—Vicors, Zool. Voy. ‘Blossom,’ 
Birds, 1839, 28.—Townsenp (J. K.), Journ. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., viii, 1839, 
156 (n. w. United States).—Praxsopy, Rep. Orn. Mass., 1839, 366.—GiRavD, 
Birds Long Is., 1844, 274.—Gray, List Birds Brit. Mus., iii, Gralle, 1844, 
94.— JARDINE, Contr. Orn., 1849, 84 (Bermudas, very rare in autumn).— 
Hourpis, Jardine’s Contr. Orn., 1850, 10 (Bermudas, autumn).—McCat., 
Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., v, 1851, 223 (Texas). —KsaERBOLLING, Naumannia, 
iv, 1854, 308 (Iceland; Europe).—Putnam, Proc. Essex Inst., i, 1856, 218 
(Massachusetts).—YaRrreELL, Hist. Brit. Birds, 3rd ed., ii, 1856, 620.— 
Cassin, in Baird, Rep. Pacific R. R. Surv., ix, 1858, 744.—Barrp, Cat. N. 
Am. Birds, 1859, no. 551.—Wituis, An. Rep. Smithson. Inst. for 1858 (1859), 
285 .(Nova Scotia).—Buanp, An. Rep. Smithson. Inst. for 1858 (1859), 288 
(Bermudas).—REINHARDT, Ibis, 1861, 10 (Greenland, 2 specs.); Vid. Medd. 
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