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Family APHRIZID^. Subf-bibds and Turnstones. 



Subfamily APHRIZINA. Surf-bieds. 



Genus APHRIZA Audubon. 



Aphrim Audubon, Orn. Biog., V, 1839, 249. Type, by monotypy, 

 Aphriza townsendi Audubon = Tringa virgata Gmelin. 



Aphriza virgS.ta (Gmelin). Surf-bird. [282.] 



Tringa -virgata Gmelin, Syst. Nat., I, ii, 1789, 674. ("Sandwich Sound" 

 = Prince William Sound, Alaska.) 



Range. — Pacific coast of North and South America. Breeding 

 range unknown, but probably in the interior of northwestern Alaska; 

 winters in Chile to Straits of Magellan; occurs in migration from 

 Kowak River, Alaska, to southern South America. 



Subfamily ARENARIIN^. Tctrnstones. 

 Genus ARENARIA Brisson. 



Arenaria Bbisson, Om., V, 1760, 132. Type, by tautonymy, [Arenaria] 

 arenaria Bkisson = Tringa interpres Linn^us. 



ArenSiia interpres (LiNNiEus). 

 Range. — Nearly cosmopolitan. 



u. Arenaria interpres interpres (LiNN^us). Turnstone. [283.] 



Tringa interpres Linn^us, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, I, 1758, 148. (Islands of 

 Gothland, Sweden.) 



Range. — Old World. Breeds in western Alaska from Point Barrow to 

 the Yukon delta, and in western Greenland, Scandinavia, northern Russia, 

 Siberia, and Japan; winters on the coasts of Europe and Asia to south Africa, 

 Australia, and Oceanica. 



b. Arenaria interpres moiinfilla (Linn^us). Ruddy Turnstone. [283o.] 

 Tringa morinella Linn^us, Syst. Nat., ed. 12, I, 1766, 249. (Coast of 

 Florida.) 



