112 CHECK-LIST OF NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 



Genus MICROPALAMA Baird. 



Micropalama Baird, Rep. Expl. & Surv. R. R. Pac, IX, 1858, 726. 

 Type, by orig. desig., Tringa himantopus Bonapahte. 



Micropalama himdntopus (Bonaparte). Stilt Sandpiper. [233.] 



Tringa himantopus Bonaparte, Ann. Lye. N. H. N. Y., II, 1826, 157. 

 (Long Branch, New Jersey.) 



Range. — North and South America. Breeds near the coast of 

 Mackenzie and probably south to central Keewatin; winters in South 

 America south to Uruguay and Chile; casual in winter in southern 

 Texas and Mexico; in migration occurs in western Mississippi Valley, 

 West Indies, and Central America; less common on the Atlantic coast, 

 and casual in British Columbia, Newfoundland, and Bermuda. 



Genus TRINGA Linn^us. 



Tringa Linn^tjs, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, 1, 1758, 148. Type, by subs, desig., 

 Tringa canutus Linnjetts (Gray, 1840). 



Tringa canutus Linn^us. Knot. [234.] 



Tringa canutus LiyuMVs, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, I, 1758, 149. (Sweden.) 



Range. — Northern and Southern hemispheres. Breeds from 

 northern Ellesmere Land south to Melville Peninsula and Iceland, 

 and also on Taimyr Peninsula, Siberia; winters south to southern 

 Patagonia, and from the Mediterranean to South Africa, India, 

 Australia, and New Zealand; casual in winter on the Atlantic coast of 

 United States; in migration occurs on the Atlantic coast of North 

 America and over most of the Eastern Hemisphere; rare in the inte- 

 rior of North America and on the Pacific coast. 



Genus ARQUATELLA Baird. 



ArquateUa Baied, Rep. Expl. & Surv. R. R. Pac, IX, 1858, 717. Type, 

 by monotypy, Tringa mariiima BRtJNNiCH. 



