118 CHECK-LIST OF NOKTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 



Genus CALIDRIS Illigek. 



Calidris Illigeh, Prodromus, 1811, 249. Type, by monotypy, Char- 

 adrius calidris LiNNaius = Tringa leucophcBa Pallas. 



Calidris leucophsea (Pallas). Sanderling. [248.] 



Tringa leucophoea Pallas, in Vroeg's Catal., 1764, 32. (North coast of 

 Holland.) 



Range. — Northern and Southern hemispheres. Breeds from Mel- 

 ville Island, Ellesmere Land, and northern Greenland to Point Bar- 

 row, Alaska, northern Mackenzie, Iceland, and in northern Siberia; 

 winters from central California, Texas, Virginia, and Bermuda to 

 Patagonia, and casually to Massachusetts and Washington; also from 

 the Mediterranean, Burma, and Japan to South Africa and various 

 Pacific islands, including Hawaii. 



Genus LIMOSA Brisson. 



Limosa Bkisson, Orn., V, 1760, 261. Type, by tautonymy, [Limosa] 

 limosa Bhisson = Scolopax limosa Linn^us. 



Limosa f6doa (Linn^us). Marbled Godwit. [249.] 



Scolopaxfedoa Linn^us, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, 1, 1758, 146. (Hudson Bay.) 



Range. — North America. Breeds from valley of the Saskatchewan 

 south to North Dakota (formerly to Iowa and Wisconsin) ; winters from 

 southern Lower California, Louisiana, Florida, and Georgia to Guate- 

 mala and Belize; casual in California in winter; in migration occurs 

 on the Pacific coast north to British Columbia, and on the Atlantic 

 coast to the Maritime Provinces (formerly) and south to the Lesser 

 Antilles; accidental in Alaska. 



Limosa lapponica (Linn^us). 



Range. — Arctic Europe and Asia, south in winter to northern 

 Africa, Malay Archipelago, Australia, and New Zealand. 



