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Arquatilla maritima (Bbunnich). 

 Range. — Northern part of the Northern Hemisphere. 



a. Arquatella maritima maritima (Bbunnich). Purple Sandpiper. [235.] 



Tringa maritima Bbunnich, Om. Borealis, 1764, 54. (Christiansoe 

 Island, and Norway.) 



Range. — Northern Hemisphere. Breeds from Melville Island, EUesmere 

 Land, and northern Greenland south to Melville Peninsula, Cvraiberland 

 Sound, and southern Greenland, and in Norway, Russia, Siberia, Iceland, 

 and Faroe Islands ; winters from southern Greenland and New Brunswick to 

 Long Island; casual in migration to the Great Lakes, Georgia, Florida, and 

 Bermuda, and in the Eastern Hemisphere south to Great Britain and the 

 Mediterranean. 



b. Arquatella maritima couSsi Ridoway. Aleutian Sandpiper. [235a.] 



ArquateUa couesi Ridgway, Bull. Nuttall Orn. Club, V, July, 1880, 160. 

 (Attu Island, Aleutian Islands.) 



Range. — Alaska. Breeds on the Commander, Aleutian, and Shumagin 

 islands; winters on Commander, Kuril, Kadiak, and Aleutian islands, and 

 Alaska coast south to Sitka; in migration occurs on Kotzebue Sound, Alaska, 

 and at Plover Bay, Siberia. 



c. Arquatella maritima ptilocn^mis (Coues). Fribilof Sandpiper. [235&.] 



Tringa ptilocnemis CouEs, in Elliot, Rep. Seal Isl. Alaska, 1873 (not 

 paged). (St. George Island, Pribilof Islands.) 



Range. — Alaska. Breeds on St. Lawrence, St. Matthew, and Pribilof 

 islands; winters on coast of southeastern Alaska near Lynn Canal; wanders 

 in migration north to Norton Sound and southwest to Unalaska. 



Genus PISOBIA Billbebg. 



Pisobia Billberg, Syn. Fauna? Scand., I, ii, 1828, 136. Type, by subs, 

 desig., TringamimUa Leislek (A. O. U. Comm., 1908). 



Pisobia aurita (Latham). Sharp-tailed Sandpiper. [238.] 



Tringa aurita Latham, Suppl. Index Orn., 1801, Ixvi. (New South 

 Wales.) 



Range. — Eastern parts of the Eastern Hemisphere. Breeds on 

 the Chulcchi Peninsula, Siberia; winters in Japan and south to New 



