116 CHECK-LIST OF NOETH AMEKICAN BIEDS. 



[a. Pelidna alpina alpina (Linn^us). Dunlin. [243.] 



TriTiga alpina Linn^us, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, 1, 1758, 149. ("Lapponia.") 



Range. — Eastern Hemisphere. Breeds in Scotland, Iceland, Russia, and 

 Siberia north to latitude 74° ; winters from Great Britain, HoUand, and the 

 Caspian Sea to northern Africa and Calcutta; accidental in eastern North 

 America (Massachusetts, New York, and District of Columbia).] 



b. Pelidna alpina sakhalina (Vieillot). Bed-backed Sandpiper. [243a.] 



Scolopax sakhalina Vieillot, Nouv. Diet. d'Hist. Nat., Ill, 1816, 359. 

 (Sakhalin Island, Okhotsk Sea.) 



Range. — North America and eastern Asia. Breeds on the northern coast 

 of Siberia west to mouth of the Yenisei, and from Point Barrow to mouth of 

 Yukon, and in Boothia and Melville peninsulas, and northern Ungava; win- 

 ters on the Pacific coast from Washington to southern Lower California and 

 from New Jersey (rarely Massachusetts) south to Louisiana and southern 

 Texas, and in Asia from China and Japan to the Malay Archipelago; rare in 

 migration in the interior of the United States except about the southern end 

 of Lake Michigan. 



Genus EROLIA Vieillot. 



Erolia Vieillot, Analyse, 1816, 55. Type, by monotypy, Erolia varie- 

 gata Vieillot = Tringa ferruginea BhOnnich. 



Erdlia ferruginea (Brunnich). Curlew Sandpiper. [244.] 



Tringa ferruginea Bbtjnnich, Orn. Borealis, 1764, 53. (Iceland and 

 ChristiansSe Island.) 



Range.- — Chiefly Eastern Hemisphere; occasional in North and 

 South America. Breeds in the Yenisei delta and on the Taimyr 

 Peninsula, Siberia; winters in Africa, India, Malay Archipelago, and 

 Australia; in migration occurs from Great Britain to China and the 

 Philippines; occasional in North America: Alaska (Point Barrow), 

 Ontario, Nova Scotia, Maine, Massachusetts, New York, and New 

 Jersey, and in the West Indies and Patagonia. 



