

CALIDRIS AKENAKIA. 



HUNAKAI. 



Tringa arenaria, Linnaeus, Syst. Nat. ed. 12, i. p. 251 (1766) ; Gay, Hist. Chile, Zoologia, i. 



p. 425 (1847) ; Schlegel, Mus. Pays-Bas, Scolopaces, p. 57 (1865) ; Philippi, An. Univ. Chile, 



xxxi. p. 276 (1868) ; Wiglesworth, Aves Polynesia;, p. 64 (1891). 

 Calidris arenaria, Cassin, U.S. Nav. Astron. Exped. S. Hemisph. ii. p. 194 (1855) ; Baird, Proc. 



Acad. N. S. Philad. 1859, p. 306 ; Suekley, Rep. Expl. Railr. Mississ, xii. Bk. ii. p. 741 (1860) ; 



Sclater & Salvin, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1868, p. 176 ; iid. op. cit. 1870, p. 323 ; Dall & Bannister, 



Trans. Chicago Acad. Sc. i. p. 292 (1869) ; Finsch, Abh. Naturw. Ver. Bremen, iii. p. 65 



(1872) ; Lawrence, Mem. Bost. Soc. N. H. ii. p. 308 (1874) ; Salvin, Trans. Zool. Soc. ix. 



p. 503 (1876) ; Finsch, Ibis, 1880, p. 331; id. Mitth. Orn. Ver. Wien, 1884, p. 127; Sharpe, 



Proc. Zool. Soc. 1881, p. 16; Nelson, Cruise ' Corwin/ p. 88 (1883) ; id. (& Henshaw), Rep. 



N. H. Coll. Alaska, p. 115 (1887) ; James, List Chil. Birds, p. 13 (1885) ; Turner, Contr. 



N. H. Alaska, p. 189 (1886) ; Taczanowski, Orn. Perou, iii. p. 353 (1886) ; Stejneger, Proc. 



U.S. Nat. Mus. 1887, p. 82; Oustalet, Miss. Sc. du Cap Horn, Oiseaux, p. B. 296 (1891). 



[Except the first, the above citations refer mainly to the West Coast of America, the Sandwich 

 Islands, and the Galapagos.] 



To Mr. Knudsen we are indebted for the transmission of the first specimens of the 

 Sanderling from the Hawaiian Islands. They were taken, as recorded by Dr. Stejneger 

 (loc. supra cit.), on the island of Kauai, probably in the winter months. It does not 

 seem to be a common bird in that region, and I was only able to procure one example, 

 for which I am indebted to Mr. Francis Gay, who shot it on the island of Niihau. It 

 is worthy of notice that though met with on the coasts of Japan and China, and 

 occasionally on the Commander Islands and at Sitka, whence it becomes more common 

 to the eastward, this species did not come under the observation of Mr. Nelson in the 

 southern part of Alaska during his stay there between 1877 and 1881. It was, how- 

 ever, observed in numbers by Mr. Dall at the mouth of the Yukon, both in spring and 

 autumn. It passes down the whole western coast of America to Cape Horn, and has 

 been found in the Galapagos, but the only unquestionable record of its occurrence in 

 Polynesia seems to be that of Dr. Finsch. The statement of Temminck (Man. d'Orn. 

 iv, p. 349) that it had been found in the Sunda Islands and in New Guinea, though 

 widely copied by authors, and by some extended generally to " the islands of the 

 Malay Archipelago " (Seebohm, Geogr. Distr. Charadriidse, p. 432), is not borne out 



