Chapter VII: Part 7

_Pluvialis apricarius fulvus_ Hand-list Japanese Birds, rev.,
1932, p. 193 (Saipan, Tinian, Babelthuap, Koror, Pelilieu, Angaur,
Yap, Uluthi, Truk, Lukunor, Ponapé, Kusaie, Mille, Arhno, Majuro,
Likieb).

_Pluvialis dominica fulva_ Peters, Check-list Birds World, 2,
1934, p. 244 (Oceania); Bryan, Guam, Rec., vol. 13, no. 2, 1936,
p. 24 (Guam); Stickney, Amer. Mus. Novit., no. 1248, 1943, p. 3
(Saipan, Guam, Palau, Ponapé, Kusaie, Ruk, Tarawa); Mayr, Birds
Southwest Pacific, 1945, p. 39 (Oceania); Downs, Trans. Kansas
Acad. Sci., 49, 1946, p. 93 (Tinian); Strophlet, Auk, 1946, p. 536
(Guam); Borror, Auk, 1947, p. 417 (Agrihan); Stott, Auk, 1947, p.
525 (Saipan); Baker, Smithson. Misc. Coll., vol. 107, no. 15,
1948, p. 50 (Guam, Rota, Peleliu, Garakayo, Ulithi, Truk).

_Pluvialis dominica_ Wharton and Hardcastle, Journ. Parasitology,
32, 1946, pp. 306, 310, 313, 316, 318 (Ulithi, Guam); Wharton,
Ecol. Monogr., 16, 1946, pp. 174, 175 (Guam).

_Geographic range._--Breeds from Siberia to western Alaska. Winters
from India east to Oceania; stragglers occur west to Africa and
east to Pacific coast of North America. In Micronesia: Mariana
Islands--Guam, Rota, Tinian, Saipan, Agrihan, Asuncion; Palau
Islands--Angaur, Peleliu, Ngabad, Garakayo, Koror, Babelthaup;
Caroline Islands--Yap, Ulithi, Truk, Lukunor, Ponapé, Kusaie;
Marshall Islands--Mille, Arhno, Rongelab, Majuro, Likieb, Bikini.

_Specimens examined._--Total number, 69 (39 males, 26 females, 4
unsexed), as follows: Mariana Islands, USNM--Guam, 17 (July 8, 19,
24, Aug. 31, Sept. 4, 17, 19, 26, Oct. 5, 8, 23, 24)--Rota, 5 (Oct.
20, 25); AMNH--Guam, 6 (Mar. 7, 8, 27, Aug. 15)--Saipan, 1 (Sept.
8)--Asuncion, 2 (Feb. 16); Palau Islands, USNM--Peleliu, 9 (Sept.
6-20)--Garakayo, 1 (Sept. 20); AMNH--exact locality not given, 7
(Oct. 13, Nov. 13, 15); Caroline Islands, USNM--Ulithi, 4 (Aug. 16,
21); AMNH--Kusaie, 9 (Mar. 10-30)--Ponapé, 2 (Dec. 15)--Truk, 3
(Feb. 6); Marshall Islands, USNM--Bikini, 3 (Mar. 4, 7, May 3).

_Parasites._--Wharton (1946:174, 175) records the following
chiggers (Acarina) from _Pluvialis_ taken by the NAMRU2 party at
Guam: _Acariscus pluvius_, _A. anous_, _Neoschöngastia carveri_,
and _N. namrui_; and at Ulithi: _N. pauensis_ and _N. ewingi_.

_Weights._--Birds taken at Guam and Rota weighed as follows: seven
males, 107-125 (117); four females, 109-120 (114).

_Remarks._--The Pacific Golden Plover is one of the most abundant migratory shore birds to visit Micronesia. So characteristic of Micronesia is this species that almost all ornithologists who have made observations in the area have recorded it. Finsch observed the plover in the Carolines and Marshalls. Coultas made notes on, and collected specimens of, it in the Marianas, Carolines, and Palaus. The Hand-list of Japanese Birds (Hachisuka _et al._, 1942:216) lists _Pluvialis_ from 17 islands in Micronesia.

Stickney (1943:3, 4) discusses the migrations of the Pacific Golden Plover through Oceania, using as a basis for her remarks the data from the extensive collections made by the Whitney South Sea Expedition. She states that the northward migration begins in March from the southern islands (New Zealand and southern Australia). At Guam in 1945, the writer observed flocks of plover beginning on February 11. Birds were seen in small groups in March and April. In the latter month most of the birds seen were in nuptial plumage. For the year 1945, the latest spring record at Guam was April 28. In the same year, Gleise (1945:220) observed his last spring record at Tinian "between April 26 and 27." In 1946, Morrison obtained plover in nuptial plumage at Bikini on May 3.

In an effort to obtain dates when shore birds appeared at Guam, field parties of NAMRU2 made observations at several beaches in late spring, summer, and early fall, as is shown in table 8. Pacific Golden Plovers in post-nuptial molt were first observed and collected on July 8. Following this date, small flocks and later large flocks were more numerous; by September 29, plover were abundant. Similar findings were obtained at Ulithi (see table 9) and in the Palau Islands (see table 10) in August and September. The birds collected by the NAMRU2 party at Guam, Ulithi, Peleliu, and Garakayo in July, August, September, and early October were in postnuptial molt. Birds taken at Rota on October 20 and 26 were in winter plumage. Downs (1946:93) observed plover in small flocks at Tinian in 1945, beginning after September 5. Borror (1947:417) saw two birds at Agrihan on August 10, 1945.

The flocks of plover seen by the NAMRU2 party varied in size from three to 30 birds, the average being less than ten. Coultas (field notes) noted "large flocks" at the Palaus from October to December, 1931. Although plover was often found on the same beach as other birds, the NAMRU2 observers rarely saw plover together with other shore birds. However, on air strips _Pluvialis_ occasionally occurred with small numbers of _Arenaria_, _Heteroscelus_ spp., and _Numenius phaeopus_. _Pluvialis_ and _N. phaeopus_ were the only shore birds found to use open grassy flats and other inland areas at Guam and Peleliu in 1945.

Stickney (1943) records _Pluvialis_ in late spring and summer from Polynesia, indicating these to be birds remaining in the winter range during the breeding season. The NAMRU2 party observed no Pacific Golden Plovers at Guam which might be regarded as non-migrants, but other species of shore birds were found which might be considered as such. The lingering of individuals in the winter range is not unusual among migratory birds, and as Stickney points out, most of the non-migrants retain their winter dress or assume an incomplete breeding plumage.

=Charadrius hiaticula semipalmatus= Bonaparte

Semipalmated Plover

_Charadrius semipalmatus_ Bonaparte, Journ. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila.,
5, 1825, p. 98. New name for _Tringa hiaticula_ Ord. not
_Charadrius hiaticula_ Linnaeus, in Wilson's Amer. Ornith., Ord.
repr., 7, 1824, p. 65. (Type locality, Coast of New Jersey.)

_Charadrius hiaticula_ Finsch, Ibis, 1880, p. 331 (Taluit);
Wiglesworth, Abhandl. und Ber. Zool. Mus. Dresden, no. 6,
1890-1891 (1891), p. 64 (Taluit or Bonham); Schnee, Zool.
Jahrbücher, 20, 1904, p. 389 (Marschall-Inseln); Kuroda, in
Momiyama, Birds Micronesia, 1922, p. 45 (Taluit).

_Geographic range._--Breeds from Arctic America south to coastal
Canada. Winters from southern United States to South America. In
Micronesia: Marshall Islands--Jaluit.

_Remarks._--Finsch (1880d:331) reported this bird (sight record) at Jaluit in the Marshall Islands. Other than this observation, there is no history of the species in Micronesia.

=Charadrius dubius curonicus= Gmelin

Ring-necked Plover

_Charadrius curonicus_ Gmelin, Syst. Nat., 1, pt. 2, 1789, p. 692.
(Type locality, Kurland.)

_Charadrius dubius curonicus_ Hand-list Japanese Birds, rev.,
1932, p. 194 (Yap); Hand-list Japanese Birds, 3d ed., 1942, p. 217
(Yap); Mayr, Birds Southwest Pacific, 1945, p. 37 (Micronesia).

_Geographic range._--Breeds in northern Europe and Asia. Winters
from Africa east to Malaysia and Melanesia. In Micronesia: Caroline
Islands--Yap.

_Remarks._--The Ring-necked Plover has been recorded at Yap by the Japanese collectors. Mayr (1945a:37) remarks that the bird is an occasional migrant through Micronesia. Gleise and Genelly (1945:221) observed four "Papuan" Ring-necked Plovers at Eniwetok in 1945. Apparently no specimen was obtained.

=Charadrius alexandrinus nihonensis= Deignan

Kentish Plover

_Charadrius alexandrinus nihonensis_ Deignan, Journ. Washington
Acad. Sci., vol. 31, 1941, p. 106. (Type locality, Aomori, Hondo.)

_Charadrius cantianus_ Hartlaub and Finsch, Proc. Zool. Soc.
London, 1868, pp. 117, 118 (Pelew); _idem_, Proc. Zool. Soc.
London, p. 89 (Pelew); Finsch, Journ. Mus. Godeffroy, 8, 1875, p.
31 (Palau).

_Aegialitis cantianus_ Wiglesworth, Abhandl. und Ber. Zool. Mus.
Dresden, no. 6, 1890-1891 (1891), p. 64 (Pelew); Takatsukasa and
Kuroda, Tori, 1, 1915, p. 62 (Pelew).

_Aegialitis alexandrinus dealbatus_ Kuroda, in Momiyama, Birds
Micronesia, 1922, p. 45 (Pelew).

_Charadrius alexandrinus dealbatus_ Hand-list Japanese Birds,
rev., 1932, p. 194 (Palau); Hand-list Japanese Birds, 3d ed.,
1942, p. 217 (Palau); Mayr, Birds Southwest Pacific, 1945, p. 37
(Palau).

_Geographic range._--Breeds in Japan and possibly on adjacent parts
of the Asiatic mainland. Winters south to Malaya. In Micronesia:
Palau Islands--exact locality unknown.

_Remarks._--The Kentish Plover is known from a single record obtained by Semper in the Palau Islands. It is tentatively assigned to _C. a. nihonensis_, which breeds directly north of the Palau Islands on Japan. _C. a. dealbatus_ (Swinhoe) breeds more to the west on the Asiatic mainland and adjacent islands south of Japan. Additional specimens are needed before the subspecific status of migrants to Micronesia can be accurately determined.

=Charadrius mongolus stegmanni= Stresemann

Mongolian Dotterel

_Charadrius mongolus stegmanni_ Stresemann, Ornith. Monatsb., 48,
1940, p. 55. New name for _Charadrius mongolus littoralis_
Stegmann, 1937, preoccupied. (Type locality, Behring Island.)

_Charadrius sanguineus_ Lesson, Man. d'Ornith., 2, 1828, p. 330 (No
type locality = Mariana Islands, _ex_ Oustalet, Nouv. Arch. Mus.
Hist. Nat. Paris, (3), 8, 1896, p. 48); _idem_, Traité d'Ornith.,
1831, p. 544 (no locality = Mariana Islands); Hartlaub, Journ. f.
Ornith., 1854, p. 167 (Mariannen).

_Charadrius mongolicus_ Oustalet, Nouv. Arch. Mus. Hist. Nat.
Paris, (3), 8, 1896, p. 48 (Guam, Jaluit, Palaos, Carolines);
Hartert, Novit. Zool., 5, 1898, p. 66 (Guam); Seale, Occ. Papers
Bernice P. Bishop Mus., 1, 1901, p. 36 (Guam); Safford, Osprey,
1902, p. 68 (Guam).

_Aegialitis mongolus_ Hartert, Novit. Zool., 7, 1900, p. 9 (Ruk).

_Aegialis mongola_ Safford, Contr. U. S. Nat. Herb., 9, 1905, p.
80 (Guam).

_Aegialites mongola_ Cox, Island of Guam, 1917, p. 22 (Guam).

_Ochthodromus mongolicus_ Takatsukasa and Kuroda, Tori, 1, 1915,
p. 62 (Marianas, Ruk).

_Charadrius mongolus_ Ridgway, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., 50, pt. 8,
1919, p. 132 (Ruk); Mayr, Birds Southwest Pacific, 1945, p. 38
(Micronesia).

_Charadrius mongolus mongolus_ Hartert, Vögel pal. Fauna, 11-12,
1920, p. 1543 (Marianen, Karolinen); Hand-list Japanese Birds,
rev., 1932, p. 194 (Guam, Truk, Iuripik, Kusaie, Jaluit, Majuro);
Peters, Check-list Birds World, 2, 1934, p. 253 (Carolines,
Marianas); Bryan, Guam Rec., vol. 13, no. 2, 1936, p. 24 (Guam);
Baker, Smithson. Misc. Coll., vol. 107, no. 15, 1948, p. 50 (Guam,
Peleliu, Ulithi).

_Cirrepidesmus mongolus mongolus_ Kuroda, in Momiyama, Birds
Micronesia, 1922, p. 44 (Guam, Ruk).

_Charadrius mongolus stegmanni_ Hand-list Japanese Birds, 3d ed.,
1942, p. 217 (Guam, Peliliu, Truk, Iuripik, Kusaie, Jaluit,
Majuro).

_Geographic range._--Breeds in northeastern Siberia and Bering Sea
area. Winters south to eastern Malaysia, Melanesia, and Australia.
In Micronesia: Mariana Islands--Guam; Palau Islands--Angaur,
Peleliu; Caroline Islands--Ulithi, Truk, Iuripik, Kusaie; Marshall
Islands--Jaluit, Majuro.

_Specimens examined._--Total number, 10 (4 males, 5 females, 1
unsexed), as follows: Mariana Islands, USNM--Guam, 2 (June 7, Sept.
1); AMNH--Guam, 3 (Aug. 15, 18, Nov. 30); Palau Islands,
USNM--Peleliu, 3 (Sept. 7-12); Caroline Islands, USNM--Ulithi, 1
(Aug. 22); AMNH--Truk, 1 (Feb. 8).

_Remarks._--According to Oustalet (1896:48), Lesson used two specimens of this species, which were collected in the Marianas by the expedition in the "Uranie," as types for his _Charadrius sanguineus_.

The Mongolian Dotterel is a regular visitor to western Micronesia. It is recorded also from the Marshall Islands, which it probably reaches from the westward by way of the Carolines, since the species has not been recorded in the Hawaiian Islands.

A bird taken by the writer at Guam on June 7, 1945, was in winter plumage and probably nonmigratory. The species was recorded also at Guam in September. At Peleliu in September, 1945, the Mongolian Dotterel was seen frequently on tidal flats by the NAMRU2 party. On September 8 there was a flock of approximately fifty birds, in company with _Charadrius leschenaultii_, at Akarakoro Point. In August at Ulithi, birds were on the beaches in company with _Crocethia alba_. At Angaur on September 21, 1945, the species was with other shore birds in small groups at fresh water ponds.

I am tentatively referring all specimens examined to _C. m. stegmanni_ although at this writing (1948) I am inclined to the opinion that a critical reexamination of the referred specimens might reveal one or a few individuals of the subspecies _C. m. mongolus_ Pallas.

=Charadrius leschenaultii= Lesson

Large Sand Dotterel

_Charadrius Leschenaultii_ Lesson, Dict. Sci. Nat., ed. Levrault,
42, 1826, p. 36. (Type locality, Pondichery, India.)

_Charadrius griseus_ Lesson, Traité d'Ornith., 1831, p. 544
(Oulan).

_Charadrius geoffroyi_ Hartlaub and Finsch, Proc. Zool. Soc.
London, 1868, pp. 117, 118 (Pelew); _idem_, Proc. Zool. Soc.
London, 1872, p. 89 (Pelew); Finsch, Journ. Mus. Godeffroy, 8,
1875, pp. 5, 31 (Palau).

_Aegialitis geoffroyi_ Salvadori, Ornith. Papuasia, 3, 1882, p.
299 (Ualan, Pelew); Wiglesworth, Abhandl. und Ber. Zool. Mus.
Dresden, no. 6, 1890-1891 (1891), p. 64 (Pelew, Ualan).

_Ochthodromus geoffroyi_ Sharpe, Cat. Birds British Mus., 24,
1896, p. 217 (Pelew, Ualan); Takatsukasa and Kuroda, Tori, 1,
1915, p. 62 (Pelew).

_Pagoa leschenaultii_ Kuroda, in Momiyama, Birds Micronesia, 1922,
p. 44 (Pelew, Kusaie, Yap).

_Charadrius leschenaultii leschenaultii_ Hand-list Japanese Birds,
rev., 1932, p. 193 (Yap, Kusaie, Palau); Hand-list Japanese Birds,
3d ed., 1942, p. 216 (Yap, Kusaie, Palau).

_Charadrius leschenaultii_ Mayr, Birds Southwest Pacific, 1945, p.
38 (Micronesia); Baker, Smithson. Misc. Coll., vol. 107, no. 15,
1948, p. 51 (Peleliu).

_Geographic range._--Breeds in Asia south to Persia. Winters from
Malaysia east to Australia and Melanesia. In Micronesia: Palau
Islands--Peleliu; Caroline Islands--Yap, Kusaie.

_Specimens examined._--Total number, 9 (2 males and 7 females), as
follows: Palau Islands, USNM--Peleliu, 7 (Sept. 6-12); AMNH--exact
locality not given, 2 (Nov. 21, 25).

_Remarks._--The Large Sand Dotterel is a regular visitor to the Palau Islands. It has been recorded also at Yap and Kusaie in the Carolines, where it may be considered as an uncommon visitor.

At Peleliu, the species was seen on several occasions in September, 1945, by the NAMRU2 party. The birds were found on tidal flats in company with _Charadrius mongolus stegmanni_ in flocks of 10 to 30 individuals.

=Numenius phaeopus variegatus= (Scopoli)

Whimbrel

_Tantalus variegatus_ Scopoli, Del. Flor. et Faun. Insubr., fasc.
2, 1786, p. 92. (Type locality, Luzon, _ex._ Sonnerat.)

_Scolopax phaeopus_ Lesson, Traité d'Ornith., 1831, p. 566
(Marianas).

_Numenius phaeopus_ Kittlitz, Obser. Zool., in Lutké, Voy. "Le
Séniavine," 3, 1836, pp. 287, 304 (Ualan, Guahan), Hartlaub, Journ.
f. Ornith., 1854, p. 167 (Mariannen); Kittlitz, Denkw. Reise russ.
Amer. Micron. und Kamchat., 2, 1858, p. 129 (Ualan); Hartlaub,
Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1867 (1868), p. 831 (Pelew, Matelotas);
Hartlaub and Finsch, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1868, pp. 8, 118
(Pelew); _idem_, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1872, pp. 89, 106 (Uap,
Pelews); Gräffe, Journ. Mus. Godeffroy, 2, 1873, p. 123 (Yap);
Finsch, Journ. Mus. Godeffroy, 8, 1875, pp. 5, 35 (Palau); _idem_,
Journ. f Ornith., 1880, pp. 294, 307 (Ponapé, Kuschai); _idem_,
Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1880, p. 576 (Ruk); _idem_, Ibis, 1881,
pp. 107, 109, 115 (Kushai, Ponapé); Schmeltz and Krause, Ethnogr.
Abth. Mus. Godeffroy, 1881, pp. 281, 299, 353 (Ponapé, Mortlock,
Ruk); Wharton and Hardcastle, Journ. Parasitology, 32, 1946, pp.
308, 316, 318, 320 (Ulithi, Guam); Wharton, Ecol. Monogr., 16,
1946, pp. 174, 175 (Guam).

_Numenius tenuirostris_ Kittlitz, Denkw. Reise russ. Amer. Micron.
und Kamchat., 2, 1858, p. 55 (Marianas, Ualan).

_Numenius uropygialis_ Gray, Hand-list Birds, 3, 1871, p. 43
(Pelew).

_Numenius variegatus_ Salvadori, Ornith. Papuasia, 3, 1882, p. 332
(Pelew, Ponapé); Wiglesworth, Abhandl. und Ber. Zool. Mus.
Dresden, no. 6, 1890-1891 (1891), p. 66 (Marianne, Pelew,
Matalotas, Luganor, Ruk, Ponapé, Ualan); Sharpe, Cat. Birds
British Mus., 24, 1896, p. 361 (Micronesia); Safford, The Plant
World, 7, 1904, p. 266 (Guam).

_Numenius phaeopus variegatus_ Oustalet, Nouv. Arch. Mus. Hist.
Nat Paris, (3), 8, 1896, p. 39 (Mariannes, Palaos, Carolines,
Jaluit); Hartert, Novit. Zool., 5, 1898, p. 65 (Guam); _idem_,
Novit. Zool., 7, 1900, p. 8 (Ruk); Seale, Occ. Papers Bernice P.
Bishop Mus., 1, 1901, p. 34 (Guam); Safford, Osprey, 1902, p. 67
(Marianas); _idem_, Contr. U. S. Nat. Herb., 9, 1905, p. 80
(Guam); Takatsukasa and Kuroda, Tori, 1, 1915, p. 62 (Marianas,
Carolines, Pelews); Cox, Island of Guam, 1917, p. 21 (Guam);
Hartert, Vögel pal. Fauna, 13-14, 1921, p. 1649 (Guam); Hand-list
Japanese Birds, rev., 1932, p. 192 (Marianas, Carolines, Palaus,
Marshalls); Peters, Check-list Birds World, 2, 1934, p. 261
(Caroline, Marianne, Pelew); Bryan, Guam Rec., vol. 13, no. 2,
1936, p. 24 (Guam); Hand-list Japanese Birds, 3d ed., 1942, p. 215
(Guam, Koror, Babelthuap, Ngulu, Yap, Uluthi, Iuripik, Truk,
Lukunor, Ponapé, Kusaie, Jaluit, Wotze); Mayr, Birds Southwest
Pacific, 1945, p. 39 (Micronesia); Strophlet, Auk, 1946, p. 537
(Guam); Stott, Auk, 1947, p. 525 (Saipan); Baker, Smithson. Misc.
Coll., vol. 107, no. 15, 1948, p. 51 (Guam, Angaur, Peleliu,
Ulithi).

_Phaeopus phaeopus variegatus_ Wetmore, in Townsend and Wetmore,
Bull. Mus. Comp. Zoöl., 63, 1919, p. 178 (Guam); Kuroda, in
Momiyama, Birds Micronesia, 1922, p. 45 (Palaus, Carolines,
Marians).

_Geographic range._--Breeds in northeastern Asia. Winters from
Malaysia east to Oceania. In Micronesia: Mariana Islands--Guam;
Palau Islands--Angaur, Peleliu, Koror, Babelthuap; Caroline
Islands--Ngulu, Yap, Ulithi, Truk, Lukunor, Iuripik, Ponapé,
Kusaie; Marshall Islands--Jaluit, Wotze.

_Specimens examined._--Total number, 26 (9 males, 17 females), as
follows: Mariana Islands, USNM--Guam, 16 (June 4, 6, July 24, 26,
27, Sept. 1, 19, 25, Oct. 8); Palau Islands, USNM--Peleliu, 5
(Sept. 8, 12, 14)--Angaur, 4 (Sept. 21); Caroline Islands,
USNM--Ulithi, 1 (Aug. 17).

_Weights._--At Guam, the NAMRU2 party obtained the weights of two
males, 373 and 435, and of six females, 295-426 (384).

_Parasites._--Wharton (1946:174, 175) lists the following species
of chiggers (Acarina) taken from the Whimbrel at Guam: _Acariscus
pluvius_, _A. anous_, _Neoschöngastia strongi_, and _N. carveri_;
and at Ulithi: _N. namrui_ and _N. atollensis_.

_Remarks._--The Whimbrel is an abundant visitor to western Micronesia. It was first taken by Quoy and Gaimard, who found it in the Marianas. It is recorded in the Marshall Islands (Jaluit and Wotze), but apparently reaches these islands from the west, since the species is unknown in the Hawaiian Islands.

As shown in table 8, the NAMRU2 party observed the Whimbrel at Guam on spring migration in March, 1945, the last record being on March 21. In June and July, single birds or small groups were occasionally seen on the tidal flats. Some of these birds may have been nonmigratory. Beginning on July 24, more birds were recorded as they began to migrate south after their nesting season. Whimbrels were numerous from August until the conclusion of the observations in October. Birds were abundant at the Palaus in September; only a few were noted at Ulithi in late August. The Whitney South Sea Expedition of the American Museum of Natural History made collections of this species at several islands in Micronesia. At Ponapé, Coultas (field notes) writes that in November and December, 1930, a few birds were seen on the reefs and at the edges of mangrove swamps. At Peleliu in October to December, 1931, he found Whimbrels concentrated on a small islet between Koror and Babelthuap. At both Ponapé and Palau Coultas received reports that the birds remain at the islands throughout the year.

=Numenius tahitiensis= (Gmelin)

Bristle-thighed Curlew

_Scolopax tahitiensis_ Gmelin, Syst. Nat., 1, pt. 2, 1789, p. 656.
(Type locality, Tahiti, Society Islands, based on the Otaheiti
Curlew of Latham, Gen. Syn., 3, pt. 1, 1785, p. 122, no. 4.)

_Numenius femoralis_ Finsch, Ibis, 1880, pp. 220, 331, 332
(Jaluit, Arno).

_Numenius tahitiensis_ Seebohm, Geogr. Dist. Charadriidae, 1887,
p. 332 (Marshalls); Wiglesworth, Abhandl. und Ber. Zool. Mus.
Dresden, no. 6, 1890-1891 (1891), p. 66 (Marianne?, Marshalls);
Sharpe, Cat. Birds British Mus., 24, 1896, p. 367 (Marianas,
Marshalls); Schnee, Zool. Jahrbücher, 20, 1904, p. 390
(Marschall-Inseln); Takatsukasa and Kuroda, Tori, 1, 1915, p. 62
(Marianas, Pelews); Kuroda, in Momiyama, Birds Micronesia, 1922,
p. 49 (Marianas, Marshalls); Bent, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., 146,
1929, p. 143 (Jaluit); Hand-list Japanese Birds, rev., 1932, p.
192 (Saipan, Marshalls); Peters, Check-list Birds World, 2, 1934,
p. 261 (Marshalls); Yamashina, Tori, 10, 1940, p. 677 (Jarchi);
Hand-list Japanese Birds, 3d ed., 1942, p. 215 (Saipan, Jaluit,
Arhno, Maloelab, Wotze, Ailuk, Ringelab, Larchi); Stickney, Amer.
Mus. Novit., no. 1248, 1943, p. 4 (Ponapé, Marshalls); Mayr, Birds
Southwest Pacific, 1945, p. 39 (Marshalls, straggler to Carolines
and Marianas).

_Phaeopus tahitiensis_ Wetmore, in Townsend and Wetmore, Bull.
Mus. Comp. Zoöl., 63, 1919, p. 179 (Rongelab); Ridgway, Bull. U.
S. Nat. Mus., 50, pt. 8, 1919, p. 407 (Marianas, Marshalls).

_Geographic range._--Breeds in western Alaska. Winters in eastern
and central Polynesia. In Micronesia: Mariana Islands--Saipan;
Caroline Islands--Ponapé; Marshall Islands--Jaluit, Arhno,
Moloelab, Wotze, Ailuk, Rongelab, Larchi, Bikini.

_Specimens examined._--Total number, 6 (3 males, 3 females), as
follows: Caroline Islands, AMNH--Ponapé, 2 (Dec. 15); Marshall
Islands, USNM--Bikini, 4 (Mar. 10, 14, April 2, 30).

_Remarks._--The Bristle-thighed Curlew is a regular migrant through the Marshall Islands of eastern Micronesia. It is recorded as a straggler to the Caroline and Mariana islands. Stickney (1943:4, fig. 1) shows a map and discusses the breeding and wintering ranges of this curlew. As can be observed from her map, the principal wintering areas are east and south of Micronesia. She records the species from the Bonin Islands, which is the westernmost record.

It is difficult to offer plausible reasons for the present migratory habits of the Bristle-thighed Curlew. It is related to both the Asiatic form, _N. phaeopus_, and to the American species, _N. hudsonicus_, but its origin is not understood. The characteristics of its route of migration resemble that of some continental migrants and might have come about by a slow adjustment of the species to its environment, probably through an expansion of range from the west.

=Numenius madagascariensis= (Linnaeus)

Long-billed Curlew

_Scolopax madagascariensis_ Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., ed. 12, 1, 1766,
p. 242. (Type locality, Madagascar, error = Manila, Philippine
Islands, _fide_ Stresemann.)

_Numenius cyanopus_ Hartert, Novit. Zool., 5, 1898, p. 65 (Guam);
Seale, Occ. Papers Bernice P. Bishop Mus., 1, 1901, p. 35
(Micronesia); Safford, Osprey, 1902, p. 67 (Marianas); _idem_, The
Plant World, 7, 1904, p. 266 (Guam); _idem_, Contr. U. S. Nat.
Herb., 9, 1905, p. 80 (Guam); Cox, Island of Guam, 1917, p. 21
(Guam); Hartert, Vögel pal. Fauna, 13-14, 1921, p. 1645 (Guam);
Kuroda, in Momiyama, Birds Micronesia, 1922, p. 45 (Guam);
Hand-list Japanese Birds, rev., 1932, p. 192 (Guam).

_Numenius madagascariensis_ Hand-list Japanese Birds, 3d ed.,
1942, p. 214 (Guam); Mayr, Birds Southwest Pacific, 1945, p. 40
(Micronesia); Baker, Smithson. Misc. Coll., vol. 107, no. 15,
1948, p. 51 (Guam, Ngesebus).

_Geographic range._--Breeds in eastern Siberia. Winters from
Malaysia east to Australia and Melanesia. In Micronesia: Mariana
Islands--Guam; Palau Islands--Peleliu, Ngesebus.

_Remarks._--The Long-billed Curlew is a regular visitor to western Micronesia, especially to the Palau Islands. It is apparently a less common migrant in the Marianas, although it has been recorded from Guam. At Guam, the NAMRU2 party observed a single bird on June 6 and two on October 3 at tidal beaches. At Peleliu these large curlews were seen on several occasions between September 9 and 16, 1945. They were found usually as singles feeding on tidal flats in company with other shorebirds.

=Limosa lapponica baueri= Naumann

Pacific Godwit

_Limosa Baueri_ Naumann, Naturg. Vög. Deutschl., 8, 1836, p. 429.
(Type locality, New Holland = Victoria, _apud_ Mathews; Novit.
Zool., 18, 1912, p. 220.)

_Limosa uropygialis_ Schmeltz and Krause, Ethnogr. Abth. Mus.
Godeffroy, 1881, p. 299 (Mortlock).

_Limosa novae-sealandiae_ Wiglesworth, Abhandl. und Ber. Zool.
Mus. Dresden, no. 6, 1890-1891 (1891), p. 66 (Luganor).

_Limosa lapponica baueri_ Hartert, Novit. Zool., 5, 1898, p. 65
(Guam); Seale, Occ. Papers Bernice P. Bishop Mus., 1, 1901, p. 34
(Guam); Safford, Osprey, 1902, p. 67 (Marianas); _idem_, The Plant
World, 7, 1904, p. 266 (Guam); _idem_, Contr. U. S. Nat. Herb., 9,
1905, p. 80 (Guam); Prowazek, Die deutschen Marianen, 1913, p. 101
(Marianen); Cox, Island of Guam, 1917, p. 21 (Guam); Hartert, Vögel
pal. Fauna, 13-14, 1921, p. 1641, (Guam); Kuroda, in Momiyama,
Birds Micronesia, 1922, p. 46 (Carolines, Marianas); Hand-list
Japanese Birds, rev., 1932, p. 191 (Marianas, Carolines); Bryan,
Guam Rec., vol. 13, no. 2, 1936, p. 24 (Guam); Stickney, Amer. Mus.
Novit., no. 1248, 1943, p. 5 (Guam, Palau); Mayr, Birds Southwest
Pacific, 1945, p. 41 (Oceania); Strophlet, Auk, 1946, p. 537
(Guam); Baker, Smithson. Misc. Coll., vol. 107, no. 15, 1948, p. 52
(Guam, Peleliu).

_Limosa lapponica novazealandiae_ Hartert, Novit. Zool., 7, 1900,
p. 8 (Ruk); Hand-list Japanese Birds, 3d ed., 1942, p. 214 (Guam,
Truk).

_Limosa rufa uropygialis_ Takatsukasa and Kuroda, Tori, 1, 1915,
p. 62 (Marianas, Ruk).

_Geographic range._--Breeds in northeastern Asia and northwestern
North America. Winters from Malaysia east to Oceania. In
Micronesia: Mariana Islands--Guam; Palau Islands--Peleliu; Caroline
Islands--Truk.

_Specimens examined._--Total number, 5 (2 males, 3 females), as
follows: Mariana Islands, AMNH--Guam, 2 (Sept. 26); Palau Islands,
USNM--Peleliu, 1 (Sept. 7); AMNH--exact locality not given, 2 (Nov.
21, 23).

_Remarks._--The principal wintering grounds of the Pacific Godwit are probably in Australia and New Zealand according to Stickney (1943:5). The bird reaches these areas from Arctic breeding grounds by migrating to a great extent along the edge of the Asiatic Continent. It may also be considered as a regular migrant in western Micronesia, and probably reaches eastern Micronesia as an uncommon visitor, since it is occasionally recorded in the Hawaiian Islands.

At Guam in 1945, the NAMRU2 party found the Pacific Godwit at tidal beaches on April 26 and October 15. Strophlet (1946:537) recorded one bird from Guam on October 20, 1945. At Peleliu, the NAMRU2 party found birds at beaches on September 7 and 16. Coultas (field notes) reported that "a few" were seen at Peleliu from October to December, 1931. McElroy did not find any of these birds at Truk in December, 1945.

=Tringa nebularia= (Gunnerus)

Greenshank

_Scolopax nebularis_ Gunnerus, in Leem, Beskr. Finm. Lapper, 1767,
p. 251. (Type locality, District of Trondhjem, Norway.)

_Glottis nebularius_ Kuroda, in Momiyama, Birds Micronesia, 1922,
p. 47 (Yap); Takatsukasa and Yamashina, Dobutsu. Zasshi, 44, 1932,
p. 225 (Truk); Hand-list Japanese Birds, rev., 1932, p. 191 (Yap,
Truk).

_Tringa nebularis_ Hand-list Japanese Birds, 3d ed., 1942, p. 214
(Yap, Truk); Mayr, Birds Southwest Pacific, 1945, p. 41 (Yap,
Truk); Baker, Smithson. Misc. Coll., vol. 107, no. 15, 1948, p. 52
(Peleliu).

_Geographic range._--Breeds in northern Eurasia. Winters in
Mediterranean area, Africa, southern Asia, Malaysia, Australia and
Melanesia. In Micronesia: Palau Islands--Peleliu; Caroline
Islands--Yap, Truk.

_Specimens examined._--Total number, 4 (1 male, 3 females) from
Palau Islands, USNM--Peleliu (Aug. 28, Sept. 14, 15).

_Remarks._--The Greenshank has been recorded at the Palau Islands and at Yap and Truk in the Caroline Islands. It is apparently a regular visitor to western Micronesia. It probably reaches the western Carolines as an occasional visitor from the region of the Palaus to the westward, rather than from the northward, since the bird has not been observed in the Marianas.

The NAMRU2 party observed two small flocks of these birds at Peleliu in August and September, 1945. One group of six birds was found wading in the shallow water of a mangrove swamp on August 28. Another group of three birds was seen on a tidal beach on September 14 and 15, where they were observed feeding apart from other species of shore birds.

=Tringa melanoleuca= (Gmelin)

Greater Yellow-legs

_Scolopax melanoleuca_ Gmelin, Syst. Nat., 1, pt. 2, 1789, p. 659.
(Type locality, Sandy shores of Labrador = Chateau Bay, Labrador.)

_Tringa melanoleuca_ Kuroda, Dobutsu. Zasshi, 46, 1934, p. 313
(Jaluit); Hand-list Japanese Birds, 3d ed., 1942, p. 214 (Jaluit).

_Geographic range._--Breeds in Alaska and Canada. Winters from
California east to the Gulf States and the West Indies and south to
South America. In Micronesia: Marshall Islands--Jaluit.

_Remarks._--Kuroda records one specimen of the Greater Yellow-legs from Jaluit Atoll in the Marshall Islands. It is a straggler to Oceania and has not been recorded in the Hawaiian Islands.

=Tringa glareola= Linnaeus

Wood Sandpiper

_Tringa glareola_ Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, 1, 1758, p. 149.
(Europe, restricted type locality, Sweden.)

_Totanus glareola_ Oustalet, Nouv. Arch. Mus. Hist. Nat. Paris,
(3), 8, 1896, p. 43 (Guam); Hartert, Novit. Zool., 5, 1898, pp.
65, 69 (Guam); Seale, Occ. Papers Bernice P. Bishop Mus., 1, 1901,
p. 34 (Guam); Safford, Osprey, 1902, p. 70 (Guam); _idem_, The
Plant World, 7, 1904, p. 268 (Guam).

_Rhyacophilus glareola_ Kuroda, in Momiyama, Birds Micronesia,
1922, p. 48 (Guam, Angaur).

_Tringa glareola_ Hand-list Japanese Birds, rev., 1932, p. 191
(Guam, Angaur, Koror); Hand-list Japanese Birds, 3d ed., 1942, p.
213 (Guam, Anguar, Koror); Mayr, Birds Southwest Pacific, 1945, p.
41 (Guam, Palau); Baker, Smithson. Misc. Coll., vol. 107, no. 15,
1948, p. 52 (Anguar).

_Tringa glariola_ Bryan, Guam Rec., vol. 13, no. 2, 1936, p. 24
(Guam).

_Geographic range._--Breeds in northern Eurasia from Norway and
Germany east to Siberia, Sakhalin, and Kamchatka. Winters from
Africa east to southern Asia, Malaysia, and Australia. In
Micronesia: Mariana Islands--Guam; Palau Islands--Anguar, Koror.

_Specimens examined._--Total number, 2 (1 male, 1 female), as
follows: Palau Islands, USNM--Angaur, 1 (Sept. 21); AMNH--exact
locality not given, 1 (October 26).

_Remarks._--Marche, in 1877, first recorded the Wood Sandpiper in Micronesia (at Guam). In the Marianas it is apparently an uncommon migrant but it is considered to be a regular visitor in the Palau Islands. At the Palaus in September, 1945, the writer found the bird at a fresh water pond on Angaur. It was not observed on the tidal beaches at Peleliu.

=Actitis hypoleucos= Linnaeus

Common Sandpiper

_Tringa Hypoleucos_ Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, 1, 1858, p. 149
(Europe, restricted type locality, Sweden.)

_Totanus hypoleucos_ Lesson, Traité d'Ornith., 1831, p. 552
(Marianas).

_Totanus (Tringoides) hypoleucus_ Gray, Birds Trop. Is. Pacific
Ocean, 1859, p. 51 (Marianas).

_Actitis hypoleuca_ Hartlaub and Finsch, Proc. Zool. Soc. London,
1868, p. 8 (Pelew).

_Actitis hypoleucus_ Hartlaub and Finsch, Proc. Zool. Soc. London,
1868, p. 118 (Pelew); _idem_, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1872, pp.
89, 106 (Pelew); Finsch, Journ. Mus. Godeffroy, 8, 1875, p. 36
(Pelew); Schmeltz and Krause, Ethnogr. Abth. Mus. Godeffroy, 1881,
pp. 299, 353 (Ruk, Mortlock); Wiglesworth, Abhandl. und Ber. Zool.
Mus. Dresden, no. 6, 1890-1891 (1891), p. 64 (Luganor, Marianne,
Pelew); Oustalet, Nouv. Arch. Mus. Hist. Nat. Paris (3), 8, 1896,
p. 43 (Guam, Palaos, Luganor).

_Tringoides hypoleucos_ Gray, Hand-list Birds, 3, 1871, p. 46
(Pelew, Ladrone); Salvadori, Ornith. Papuasia, 3, 1882, p. 318
(Pelew).

_Tringoides hypoleucus_ Sharpe, Cat. Birds British Mus., 24, 1896,
p. 456 (Micronesia); Takatsukasa and Kuroda, Tori, 1, 1915, pp.
51, 62 (Pelews, Marianas).

_Totanus hypoleucus_ Hartert, Novit. Zool., 5, 1898, p. 65
(Saipan); Seale, Occ. Papers Bernice P. Bishop Mus., 1, 1901, p.
34 (Guam); Safford, Osprey, 1902, p. 70 (Mariannes); _idem_, The
Plant World, 7, 1904, p. 268 (Guam).

_Actitis hypoleucos_ Ridgway, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., 50, pt. 8,
1919, p. 372 (Micronesia); Kuroda, in Momiyama, Birds Micronesia,
1922, p. 47 (Marianas, Carolines, Pelews); Peters, Check-list
Birds World, 2, 1934, p. 269 (Micronesia); Bryan, Guam Rec., vol.
13, no. 1, 1936, p. 24 (Guam); Mayr, Birds Southwest Pacific,
1945, p. 42 (Micronesia); Strophlet, Auk, 1946, p. 537 (Guam);
Baker, Smithson. Misc. Coll., vol. 107, no. 15, 1948, p. 52 (Guam,
Peleliu, Ulithi).

_Tringa hypoleucos_ Hand-list Japanese Birds, rev., 1932, p. 191
(Marianas, Carolines, Pelews); Hand-list Japanese Birds, 3d ed.
1942, p. 214 (Saipan, Babelthuap, Koror, Peleliu, Angaur, Ulithi,
Truk).

_Geographic range._--Breeds in Europe and Asia. Winters from Africa
east to Polynesia. In Micronesia: Mariana Islands--Guam, Saipan;
Palau Islands--Angaur, Peleliu, Koror, Babelthuap; Caroline
Islands--Ulithi, Truk, Lukunor.

_Specimens examined._--Total number, 12 (4 males, 7 females, 1
unsexed), as follows: Mariana Islands, USNM--Guam, 4 (July 16,
Sept. 20); AMNH--Saipan, 1 (July 27); Palau Islands, USNM--Peleliu,
3 (Sept. 9, 14).--Koror, 1 (Nov. 7); AMNH--exact locality not
given, 2 (Nov. 11, 19); Caroline Islands, USNM--Ulithi, 1 (Aug.
22).

_Weights._--The present author (1948:52) recorded the weight of one
male taken at Guam as 67 grams, and of two females as 57 and 63
grams. These were fall migrants taken by the NAMRU2 party.

_Remarks._--The Common Sandpiper has been known from Micronesia since the time of Lesson. Tetens, Peters and Kubary obtained specimens in the Palaus; the latter collector obtained the bird at Lukunor and probably also at Truk. In recent years several collectors have taken the birds in western Micronesia, where the species appears to be a regular visitor. Field observations by the NAMRU2 party indicate that the birds are usually found as singles and remain apart from other species of migratory shorebirds which visit the islands. The margins of inland ponds and beaches consisting of rocks and pebbles appear to be preferred over the sandy, tidal flats. At Peleliu on September 9, 1945, two birds were taken at a bare bank of coral at an inland pond. These were the only two Common Sandpipers seen at the island. A specimen taken by the NAMRU2 party at Ulithi on August 22 at a beach, piled with debris from ships, has its entire and underparts stained by fuel oil.

=Heteroscelus brevipes= (Vieillot)

Gray-tailed Tattler

_Totanus brevipes_ Vieillot, Nouv. Dict. Hist. Nat., 6, 1816, p.
410. (No locality given, the type is from Timor.)

_Totanus pedestris_ Lesson, Traité d'Ornith., 1831, p. 552
(Marianne, Ualan).

_Totanus brevipes_ Kittlitz, Obser. Zool., in Lutké, Voy. "Le
Séniavine," 3, 1836, pp. 287, 299, 304 (Ualan, Lougounor, Guahan);
Gray, Cat. Birds Trop. Is. Pacific Ocean, 1859, p. 51 (Ladrone or
Marian Is.); Pelzeln, Reise "Novara," Vögel, 1865, p. 129, 162
(Puynipet, Ualan).

_Totanus incanus_ Finsch and Hartlaub (part), Fauna
Centralpolynesians, 1867, p. 187 (Mariannen, Ualan, Puynipet);
Salvadori (part), Ornith. Papuasia, 3, 1882, p. 322 (Micronesia);
Wiglesworth (part), Abhandl. und Ber. Zool. Mus. Dresden, no. 6,
1890-1891 (1891), p. 65 (Mulgrave, Taluit, Ualan, Ponapé, Ruk,
Luganor, Uap, Pelew, Marianas); Oustalet (part), Nouv. Arch. Mus.
Hist. Nat. Paris, (3), 8, 1896, p. 41 (Saypan, Guam, Jaluit,
Carolines, Palaos).

_Heteractitis brevipes_ Seale, Occ. Papers Bernice P. Bishop Mus.,
1, 1901, p. 35 (Marianas); Safford, Osprey, 1902, p. 67
(Marianas); _idem_, Contr. U. S. Nat. Herb., 9, 1905, p. 80
(Guam); Cox, Island of Guam, 1917, p. 21 (Guam); Wetmore, in
Townsend and Wetmore, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zoöl., 63, 1919, p. 180
(Uala = Truk); Mathews, Syst. Avium Australasianarum, 1, 1927, p.
170 (Carolines).

_Heteractitis brevis_ Prowazek, Die deutschen Marianen, 1913, pp.
47, 101 (Marianen).

_Heteroscelus brevipes_ Ridgway, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., 50, pt. 8,
1919, p. 367 (Western Pacific); Peters, Check-list Birds World, 2,
1934, p. 270 (Carolines).

_Tringa incana brevipes_ Hartert, Vögel pal. Fauna, 13-14, 1921,
p. 1623 (Guam, Truk); Hand-list Japanese Birds, rev., 1932, p. 191
(Palaus, Carolines); Hand-list Japanese Birds, 3d ed., 1942, p.
213 (Babelthuap, Koror, Angaur, Yap, Iuripik, Faraulep, Truk,
Ponapé).

_Heteroscelus incanus brevipes_ Kuroda, in Momiyama, Birds
Micronesia, 1922, p. 47 (Pelew, Yap, Ruk); Kuroda, Avifauna Riu
Kiu, 1925, p. 177 (Micronesia); Stickney, Amer. Mus. Novit., no.
1248, 1943, p. 5 (Saipan, Guam, Palau, Ruk, Kusaie); Mayr, Birds
Southwest Pacific, 1945, p. 43 (Micronesia); Baker, Smithson.
Misc. Coll., vol. 107, no. 15, 1948, p. 52 (Guam, Peleliu, Truk).

_Heteroscelus incanus_ Wharton and Hardcastle (part), Journ.
Parasitology, 32, 1946, pp. 296, 316, 318 (Guam, Peleliu).

_Geographic range._--Breeds in eastern Siberia and adjacent areas.
Winters south to Malaysia and east to Australia and Oceania. In
Micronesia: Mariana Islands--Guam, Saipan; Palau Islands--Angaur,
Peleliu, Koror, Babelthuap; Caroline Islands--Yap, Truk, Iuripik,
Faraulep, Ponapé, Kusaie.

_Specimens examined._--Total number, 39 (11 males, 27 females, 1
unsexed), as follows: Mariana Islands, USNM--Guam, 16 (June 4, 6,
July 16, 24, Aug. 6, 27, Sept. 4, 6, 27, Oct. 23); AMNH--Saipan, 1
(Sept. 8),--Guam, 5 (Feb. 11, Mar. 4, 13, Sept. 14, Dec. 5); Palau
Islands, USNM--Peleliu, 7 (Sept. 6-8, 16); AMNH--exact locality not
given, 4 (Nov. 8); Caroline Islands, USNM--Truk, 1 (Dec. 13);
AMNH--Truk, 3 (Feb. 6, 26, Oct. 14),--Kusaie, 2 (Mar., April).

_Weights._--Weights of birds obtained by the NAMRU2 party were as
follows: three males from Guam, 90-104 (95); six females from Guam,
99-116 (104).

_Remarks._--It is not clear whether some of the accounts cited above refer to this species or to the species, _Heteroscelus incanus_. Owing to the fact that specimens used in some of these early reports have not been examined by me, the identifications of the birds concerned cannot be verified and consequently it is impossible to be certain to which species some of the references pertain. In listing these accounts in the literature, I am following Sharpe (1896:455) whenever possible.

Tattlers were among the first birds observed and taken in Micronesia. Quoy and Gaimard found them in the Marianas, and Kittlitz and Kubary recorded the species in the Carolines. Kubary also reported the birds at the Palaus.

The Gray-tailed Tattler apparently does not reach the Marshall Islands but visits only the western part of Micronesia. Stickney (1943:2) shows a map of the known geographic range of this species in Micronesia. The separation of _H. brevipes_ and _H. incanus_ in the field is not always possible. For identification, the NAMRU2 party depended primarily on specimens collected. At Guam, specimens of _H. brevipes_, thought to be nonmigratory, were taken in early June. These were in winter plumage. Beginning in mid-July there was an increase in the number of tattlers seen; apparently fall migration had begun. At Peleliu in September, 1945, the NAMRU2 party found tattlers to be numerous. Apparently all were of this species; no _H. incanus_ were taken there. On September 8, approximately 75 individuals in small and large flocks were counted at Akarakoro Point on the tidal flats. The birds remained apart from the other shorebirds which were feeding at the same locality.

=Heteroscelus incanus= (Gmelin)

American Wandering Tattler

_Scolopax incana_ Gmelin, Syst. Nat., 1, pt. 2, 1789, p. 658. (Type
locality, Eimeo = Moorea, Society Islands and Palmerton Islands.)

_Totanus oceanicus_ Lesson, Mamm. et Ois., 2, 1847, p. 244
(Kusaie); Hartlaub, Archiv f. Naturgesch., 1852, p. 135
(Carolinen); _idem_, Journ. f. Ornith., 1854, pp. 167, 168
(Carolinen, Mariannen).

_Tryanga glareola_ Kittlitz, Denkw. Reise russ. Amer. Micron. und
Kamchat., 1, 1858, p. 365, 2, pp. 55, 86 (Ualan).

_Totanus incanus_ Schlegel, Mus. Pays-Bas, 5, no. 27, 1864, p. 74
(Micronésie); Salvadori (part), Ornith. Papuasia, 3, 1882, p. 322
(Ualan, Puynipet, Marshalls, Mariannis); Wiglesworth (part),
Abhandl. und. Ber. Zool. Mus. Dresden, no. 6, 1890-1891 (1891), p.
65 (Mulgrave, Taluit, Ualan, Ponapé, Ruk, Luganor, Uap, Marianne,
Pelew); Oustalet (part), Nouv. Arch. Mus. Hist. Nat. Paris, (3),
8, 1896, p. 41 (Saypan, Guam, Jaluit, Carolines, Palaos); Hartert,
Novit. Zool., 5, 1898, p. 64 (Guam); _idem_, Novit. Zool. 7, 1900,
p. 8 (Ruk); Schnee, Zool. Jahrbücher, 20, 1904, p. 389
(Marschall-Inseln).

_Actitis incanus_ Finsch and Hartlaub (part), Fauna
Centralpolynesions, 1867, p. 187 (Mariannen, Ualan, Puynipet);
Hartlaub and Finsch, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1872,
pp. 89, 106 (Uap, Ualan); Gräffe, Journ. Mus. Godeffroy, 2, 1873,
p. 123 (Yap); Finsch, Journ. Mus. Godeffroy, 8, 1875, pp. 5, 36
(Palau); _idem_, Journ. Mus. Godeffroy, 12, 1876, pp. 18, 38
(Ponapé); _idem_, Journ. f. Ornith., 1880, pp. 294, 306 (Ponapé,
Kuschai, Marshalls); _idem_, Ibis, 1881, pp. 105, 109, 115 (Kushai,
Ponapé); Schmeltz and Krause, Ethnogr. Abth. Mus. Godeffroy, 1881,
p. 299 (Mortlock); Finsch, Mitth. Ornith. Ver. Wien, 1884, p. 55
(Jaluit, Arno, Kuschai).

_Actitis incana_ Finsch, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1877 (1878), p.
781 (Ponapé); _idem_, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1880, p. 576 (Ruk);
_idem_, Ibis, 1880, pp. 219, 220, 330, 332 Milli or Mulgrave,
Taluit).

_Heteractitis incanus_ Sharpe, Cat. Birds British Mus., 24, 1906,
p. 455 (Oceania); Safford, The Plant World, 7, 1904, p. 268
(Guam); Takatsukasa and Kuroda, Tori, 1, 1915, p. 62 (Yap, Ruk,
Ponapé, Kusaie); Wetmore, in Townsend and Wetmore, Bull. Mus.
Comp. Zoöl., 63, 1919, p. 179 (Kusaie); Mathews, Syst. Avium
Australasianarum, 1, 1927, p. 70 (westcentral Pacific).

_Heteroscelus incanus_ Ridgway, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., 50, pt. 8,
1919, p. 367 (Carolines, Marianas); Peters, Check-list Birds
World, 2, 1934, p. 270 (Micronesia); Bryan, Guam Rec., vol. 13,
no. 2, 1936, p. 24 (Guam): Watson, The Raven, 17, 1946, p. 42
(Guam); Wharton and Hardcastle (part), Journ. Parasitology, 32,
1946, pp. 296, 316, 318 (Guam, Peleliu); Downs, Trans. Kansas
Acad. Sci., 49, 1946, p. 93 (Tinian); Strophlet, Auk, 1946, p. 537
(Guam); Wharton, Ecol. Monogr., 16, 1946, pp. 174, 175 (Guam);
Borror, Auk, 1947, p. 417 (Agrihan).

_Tringa incana incana_ Hartert, Vögel pal. Fauna, 13-14, 1921, p.
1623 (Guam); Hand-list Japanese Birds, rev., 1932, p. 191
(Marianas, Carolines, Marshalls, Palaus); Hand-list Japanese
Birds, 3d ed., 1942, p. 214 (Saipan, Guam, Koror, Angaur, Yap,
Faraulep, Lamatrek, Truk, Ponapé, Kusaie, Jaluit, Mille, Arhno,
Majuro, Maloelab, Wotze, Likieb, Ailuk).

_Heteroscelus incanus incanus_ Kuroda, in Momiyama, Birds
Micronesia, 1922, p. 46 (Kusaie, Ruk, Ponapé, Yap, Marianas,
Mulgrave, Taluit, Pelew); Stickney, Amer. Mus. Novit., no. 1248,
1943, p. 7 (Guam, Palau, Ponapé, Ruk, Kusaie); Mayr, Birds
Southwest Pacific, 1945, p. 42 (Palau, Marianas); Baker, Smithson.
Misc. Coll., vol. 107, no. 15, 1948, p. 53 (Guam, Rota, Ulithi).

_Geographic range._--Breeds in Alaska south to Prince William
Sound. Winters in North and South America and west in Oceania to
Melanesia. In Micronesia: Mariana Islands--Guam, Rota, Saipan,
Agrihan; Palau Islands--Angaur, Koror; Caroline Islands--Yap,
Ulithi, Truk, Faraulep, Lamatrek, Ponapé, Kusaie; Marshall
Islands--Jaluit, Mille, Arhno, Majuro, Maloelab, Wotze, Likieb,
Ailuk, Bikini.

_Specimens examined._--Total number, 47 (23 males, 20 females, 4
unsexed) as follows: Mariana Islands, USNM--Guam, 13 (May 21-29,
Sept. 19-27, Oct. 10, 23),--Rota, 2 (Oct. 23, 25); AMNH--Guam, 4
(April 23, Aug. 16); Palau Islands, AMNH--exact locality not given,
1 (no date); Caroline Islands, USNM--Ulithi, 3 (Aug. 20, 22);
AMNH--Truk, 1 (June 25),--Ponapé, 1 (Dec. 15),--Kusaie, 19 (Feb.,
Mar., April 1-10); Marshall Islands, USNM--Bikini, 3 (Feb. 26, 28,
April 28).

_Weights._--In 1948 (1948:53) I listed weights of two males from
Guam as 175 (May) and 109 (September); weights of two females from
Guam were 175 and 192 (both in May). These data were obtained by
the NAMRU2 field party.

_Parasites._--Wharton and Hardcastle (1946:296, 316, 318) list the
following chiggers (Acarina) from tattlers taken by NAMRU2
collectors at Guam and Peleliu: _Neoschöngastia bougainvillensis_,
_N. ewingi_, _N. carveri_, and _N. namrui_. Wharton (1946:174,
175) records the chiggers, _Acariscus pluvius_ and _A. anous_,
from tattlers from Guam. It is not certain from which species of
_Heteroscelus_ these chiggers were obtained.

_Remarks._--Records indicate that the American Wandering Tattler is a regular visitor to eastern Micronesia, and that it only occasionally reaches the Palau Islands in western Micronesia.

The NAMRU2 field parties found _H. brevipes_ as singles or in small groups of five or less. They remained apart from other species and appeared to prefer rocky beaches and coral-reef rocks to the sandy beaches. At Guam in 1945, the latest spring migrants were taken on May 29. These birds were in nuptial plumage. Birds taken at Bikini by Morrison on February 26 and April 28, 1946, were in worn, winter plumage. At Guam, the NAMRU2 observers obtained the first fall migrants on September 19. These observations in 1945, showed that _H. incanus_ arrived at Guam on its southbound flight fully one month after the first individuals of _H. brevipes_ began to appear (mid-July). This difference may partly result from the fact that the distance to the Asiatic breeding grounds of _H. brevipes_ is not so great as that to the American breeding grounds of _H. incanus_.

Whether the two tattlers, _H. brevipes_ and _H. incanus_, are distinct species (allopatric species insofar as breeding ranges are concerned), or whether they are mere subspecies (geographic races) is open to question. I failed to find evidences of intergradation in the few specimens which I examined critically; however, the final answer to the problem might be obtained by collecting series of birds from breeding grounds where ranges closely approach each other or overlap (if they do). Stickney (1943:6, 7) lists the distinctive differences in these two birds, particularly the character of the nasal groove, and does not mention having found any evidence of intergradation. Wetmore (in Townsend and Wetmore, 1919:180) gives evidence that they belong to two separate species.

=Arenaria interpres interpres= (Linnaeus)

Turnstone

_Tringa Interpres_ Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, 1, 1758, p. 148.
(Type locality, Europe and North America, restricted to Gotland,
Sweden.)

_Tringa interpres_ Quoy and Gaimard, Voy. "Uranie," Zool., 1824,
p. 708 (Guam).

_Strepsila collaris_ Kittlitz, Obser. Zool., in Lutké, Voy. "Le
Séniavine," 3, 1836, pp. 287, 299, 304 (Ualan, Lougounor, Guahan);
_idem_, Denkw. Reise russ. Amer. Micron. und Kamchat., 2, 1858, p.
32 (Ualan).

_Strepsilas interpres_ Kittlitz, Denk. Reise russ. Amer. Micron.
und Kamchat., 2, 1858, pp. 32, 55, 86 (Ualan); Pelzeln, Reise
"Novara," Vögel, 1865, p. 117 (Mariannen); Finsch and Hartlaub,
Fauna Ornith. Centralpolynesian, 1867, p. 200 (Mariannen);
Hartlaub, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1867 (1868), p. 831 (Pelew);
Hartlaub and Finsch, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1868, pp. 8, 118
(Pelew); _idem_, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1872, pp. 89, 104 (Pelew,
Uap, Mackenzie); Gräffe, Journ. Mus. Godeffroy, 2, 1873, p. 123
(Yap); Finsch, Journ. Mus. Godeffroy, 8, 1875, pp. 5, 32 (Palau);
_idem_, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1877 (1878), p. 781 (Ponapé);
_idem_, Ibis, 1880, pp. 220, 330, 332 (Taluit); _idem_, Journ. f.
Ornith., 1880, pp. 294, 306 (Ponapé, Kuschai); _idem_, Proc. Zool.
Soc. London, 1880, p. 576 (Ruk); _idem_, Ibis, 1881, pp. 105, 109,
115 (Kushai, Ponapé); Schmeltz and Krause, Ethnogr. Abth. Mus.
Godeffroy, 1881, pp. 281, 330, 353 (Ponapé, Nukuor, Ruk);
Salvadori, Ornith. Papuasia, 3, 1882, p. 289 (Pelew, Mariannis);
Finsch, Mitth. Ornith. Ver. Wien, 1884, p. 56 (Jaluit, Kuschai);
Wiglesworth, Abhandl. und Ber. Zool. Mus. Dresden, no. 6, 1890-1891
(1891); p. 63 (Ualan, Ponapé, Luganor, Nukuor, Ruk, Mackenzie,
Pelew, Marianne); Oustalet, Nouv. Arch. Mus. Hist. Nat. Paris, (3),
8, 1896, p. 45 (Guam, Saypan, Hogoleu, Marshalls, Mackensie,
Palaos); Hartert, Novit. Zool., 5, 1898, p. 66 (Guam); _idem_,
Novit. Zool., 7, 1900, p. 9 (Ruk); Takatsukasa and Kuroda, Tori, 1,
1915, p. 51 (Ponapé); Uchida, Annot. Zool. Japon., 9, 1918, p. 489
(Ponapé).

_Cinclus interpres_ Gray, Cat. Birds Trop. Is. Pacific Ocean,
1859, p. 48 (Ladrones).

_Arenaria interpres_ Sharpe, Cat. Birds British Mus., 24, 1896, p.
92 (Micronesia); Seale, Occ. Papers Bernice P. Bishop Mus., 1,
1901, p. 37 (Guam); Safford, Osprey, 1902, p. 68 (Marianas);
_idem_, The Plant World, 7, 1904, p. 266 (Guam); Schnee, Zool.
Jahrbücher, 20, 1904, p. 389 (Marshall Islands); Safford, Contr.
U. S. Nat. Herb., 9, 1905, p. 80 (Guam), Cox, Island of Guam,
1917, p. 22 (Guam); Wharton and Hardcastle, Journ. Parasitology,
32, 1946, pp. 316, 320 (Guam, Peleliu); Downs, Trans. Kansas Acad.
Sci., 49, 1946, p. 105 (Tinian); Strophlet, Auk, 1946, p. 537
(Guam); Wharton, Ecol. Monogr., 16, 1946, pp. 174, 175 (Guam);
Borror, Auk, 1947, p. 417 (Agrihan); Baker, Smithson. Misc. Coll.,
vol. 107, no. 15, 1948, p. 53 (Guam, Rota, Peleliu, Truk).

_Arenaria interpres oahuensis_ Wetmore, in Townsend and Wetmore,
Bull. Mus. Comp. Zoöl., 66, 1919, p. 177 (Jaluit, Rongelab, Uala);
Kuroda, in Momiyama, Birds Micronesia, 1922, p. 45 (Guam, Saipan,
Pelew, Angaur, Kusaie, Ponapé, Luganor, Nukuor, Ruk, Yap,
Mackenzie, Taluit, Rongelab).

_Arenaria interpres interpres_ Ridgway, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., 50,
pt. 8, 1919, p. 45 (Micronesia); Hand-list Japanese Birds, rev.,
1932, p. 194 (Guam, Saipan, Anguar, Kusaie, Ponapé, Luganor,
Nukuor, Ruk, Yap, Mackenzie, Taluit, Rongelab, Mille, Majuro,
Wotze, Likieb); Bryan, Guam Rec., vol. 13, no. 2, 1936, p. 24
(Guam); Hand-list Japanese Birds, 3d ed., 1942, p. 217 (Guam,
Saipan, Angaur, Kusaie, Ponapé, Luganor, Ruk, Yap, Mackenzie,
Taluit, Rongelab, Mille, Majuro, Wotze, Likieb); Stickney, Amer.
Mus. Novit., no. 1248, 1943, p. 8 (Guam, Palau, Ponapé, Kusaie).

_Geographic range._--Breeds in northern parts of the Northern
Hemisphere. Winters to Southern Hemisphere. In Micronesia: Mariana
Islands--Guam, Rota, Saipan; Palau Islands--Angaur, Peleliu,
Caroline Islands--Yap, Ulithi, Truk, Lugunor, Nukuor, Ponapé,
Kusaie; Marshall Islands--Jaluit, Rongelab, Mille, Majuro, Wotze,
Likieb, Bikini.

_Specimens examined._--Total number, 36 (17 males, 16 females, 3
unsexed), as follows: Mariana Islands. USNM--Guam, 7 (Oct.
10-26)--Rota, 2 (Oct. 20, Nov. 2); AMNH--Guam, 4 (Mar. 22, 27, Aug.
18); Palau Islands, USNM--Peleliu, 1 (Sept. 8); AMNH--exact
locality not given, 3 (Dec. 8); Caroline Islands, USNM--Truk, 1
(Dec. 22); AMNH--Ponapé, 4 (Dec. 16)--Truk, 4 (Feb. 5, 7, July
14)--Kusaie, 7 (Mar. 10-30); Marshall Islands, USNM--Bikini, 3
(Feb. 26, Mar. 4).

_Weights._--The NAMRU2 party obtained the weights of four males
taken at Guam and Rota as 77-99 (92) and one female from Guam as
90. These birds were obtained in October and November.

_Parasites._--Wharton and Hardcastle (1946:316, 320) list the
following chiggers (Acarina) from the Turnstone from Guam and
Peleliu: _Neoschöngastia carveri_ and _N. strongi_. Wharton
(1946:174) records also _Acariscus anous_ from the Turnstone at
Guam. Uchida (1918:489) records the bird louse (Mallophaga),
_Colpocephalum pediculoides_, from this bird at Ponapé.

_Remarks._--The Turnstone is a regular visitor to Micronesia and to most other parts of Oceania. As pointed out by Stickney (1943:8), the material obtained by the Whitney South Sea Expedition yields evidence that the population which winters in Oceania is as widespread as that of _Pluvialis dominica fulva_ but less abundant. The writer's observations at Guam, Ulithi and the Palaus are in agreement with this evidence. Stickney suggests that the reason the Turnstone was not recorded by the Whitney South Sea Expedition in eastern Polynesia was because of "a tendency of the turnstone to hug the continental coasts more closely, avoiding extensive overseas migrations."

At Guam in 1945, the NAMRU2 party recorded the Turnstone on its northward migration as late as March 19; on its southward migration it was first seen at Guam on July 24. On its southward migration the bird was not numerous until September. Our observations indicated that in 1945, the principal waves of migration of the Turnstone appeared approximately two weeks after those of the Pacific Golden Plover and the Whimbrel. Stickney remarks that the spring migratory season in Oceania is completed in May and that the fall migratory season begins in August. Borror (1947:417) found small flocks on the beaches at Agrihan on August 10 and 11, 1945.

Bryan and Greenway (1944:112) indicate that the subspecies, _Arenaria interpres morinella_, which breeds in North America, east of Point Barrow, Alaska, may reach the Hawaiians. Careful examination of specimens from eastern Micronesia might reveal its presence there also. The name _Areneria interpres oahuensis_ (Bloxham) may apply to specimens from eastern Micronesia but Peters (1934:271) considers _oahuensis_ to be inseparable from _Arenaria interpres interpres_ (Linnaeus).

=Gallinago megala= Swinhoe

Marsh Snipe

_Gallinago megala_ Swinhoe, Ibis, 1861, p. 343. (Type locality,
Between Takoo and Pekin, China.

_Gallinago heteroeaca_ Finsch, Journ. Mus. Godeffroy, 8, 1875, pp.
5, 36 (Palau).

_Gallinago megala_ Salvadori, Ornith. Papuasia, 3, 1882, p. 337
(Pelew); Wiglesworth, Abhandl. und Ber. Zool. Mus. Dresden, no. 6,
1890-1891 (1891), p. 67 (Pelew); Sharpe, Cat. Birds British Mus.,
24, 1896, p. 624 (Pelew); Hartert, Novit. Zool., 5, 1898, p. 65
(Guam); Seale, Occ. Papers Bernice P. Bishop Mus., 1, 1901, p. 33
(Mariannas); Safford, Osprey, 1902, p. 67 (Mariannas); _idem_, The
Plant World, 7, 1904, p. 266 (Guam); _idem_, Contr. U. S. Nat.
Herb., 9, 1905, p. 80 (Guam); Cox, Island of Guam, 1917, p. 21
(Guam); Hartert, Vögel pal. Fauna, 13-14, 1921, p. 1665 (Palau,
Guam); Mayr, Birds Southwest Pacific, 1945, p. 44 (Guam, Palau);
Strophlet, Auk, 63, 1946, p. 537 (Guam); Baker, Smithson. Misc.
Coll., vol. 107, no. 15, 1948, p. 54 (Angaur).

_Subspilura megala_ Kuroda, in Momiyama, Birds Micronesia, 1922,
p. 49 (Guam, Pelew).

_Capella megala_ Hand-list Japanese Birds, rev., 1932, p. 193
(Guam, Koror); Bryan, Guam Rec., vol. 13, no. 2, 1936, p. 24
(Guam); Robinson and Chasen, Birds Malay Peninsula, 3, 1936, p.
170 (Pelew, Marianne); Hand-list Japanese Birds, 3d ed., 1942, p.
316 (Guam, Koror).

_Geographic range._--Breeds in east-central Asia. Winters south to
Malaysia, Australia, and parts of Melanesia. In Micronesia: Mariana
Islands--Guam; Palau Islands--Koror, Angaur.

_Specimens examined._--One female from Palau Islands, USNM--Angaur
(Sept. 21).

_Remarks._--The Marsh Snipe is a regular visitor to western Micronesia, being recorded from the Mariana and Palau islands. At Angaur on September 21, 1945, the NAMRU2 party observed four birds at the edge of a brackish water swamp, which was margined with reeds and other vegetation. Birds were not seen on tidal beaches at Peleliu. Strophlet (1946:537) records the Marsh Snipe at Guam on October 21 and December 3, 1945.

=Gallinago gallinago gallinago= (Linnaeus)

Common Snipe

_Scolopax Gallinago_ Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, 1, 1758, p. 147.
(Europe, restricted type locality, Sweden.)

_Capella gallinago roddei_ Takatsukasa and Yamashina, Dobutsu.
Zasshi, 44, 1932, p. 224 (Saipan).

_Capella gallinago gallinago_ Hand-list Japanese Birds, rev.,
1932, p. 193 (Saipan); Hand-list Japanese Birds, 3d ed., 1942, p.
216 (Saipan).

_Gallinago gallinago_ Mayr, Birds Southwest Pacific, 1945, p. 44
(Saipan).

_Geographic range._--Breeds in northern Eurasia. Winters in
southern part of breeding range and south to Africa and east to
Malaysia. In Micronesia: Mariana Islands--Saipan.

_Remarks._--From Micronesia there is a single record of the taking of this bird at Saipan, apparently by Japanese collectors. It is probably an occasional straggler to the area, but owing to its similarity to _Gallinago megala_ it may not often be recognized in the field.

=Crocethia alba= (Pallas)

Sanderling

_Trynga alba_ Pallas, in Vroeg's Cat., 1764, Adumbr., p. 7. (Type
locality, Coast of the North Sea.)

_Calidris arenaria_ Finsch, Ibis, 1880, pp. 331, 332 (Taluit);
_idem_, Mitth. Ornith. Ver. Wien, 1884, p. 56 (Jaluit); Seale,
Occ. Papers Bernice P. Bishop Mus., 1, 1901, p. 33 (Guam);
Safford, Osprey, 1902, p. 70 (Mariannes); _idem_, The Plant World,
7, 1904, p. 268 (Guam); Schnee, Zool. Jahrbücher, 20, 1904, p. 390
(Marschall-Inseln).

_Tringa arenaria_ Wiglesworth, Abhandl. und Ber. Zool. Mus.
Dresden, no. 6, 1890-1891 (1891), p. 64 (Taluit); Hartert, Novit.
Zool., 5, 1898, pp. 65, 69 (Guam).

_Calidris alba_ Ridgway, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., 50, pt. 8, 1919,
p. 308 (Marshall Islands).

_Crocethia alba_ Kuroda, in Momiyama, Birds Micronesia, 1922, p.
48 (Taluit, Guam); Hand-list Japanese Birds, rev., 1932, p. 193
(Taluit, Guam); Bryan, Guam Rec., vol. 13, no. 2, 1936, p. 24
(Guam); Hand-list Japanese Birds, 3d ed., 1942, p. 215 (Jaluit,
Guam); Stickney, Amer. Mus. Novit., no. 1248, 1943, p. 9 (Guam,
Jaluit); Mayr, Birds Southwest Pacific, 1945, p. 44 (Marianas,
Marshalls); Baker, Smithson. Misc. Coll., vol. 107, no. 15, 1948,
p. 54 (Ulithi).

_Geographic range._--Breeds in Arctic regions of the Northern
Hemisphere. Winters to Southern Hemisphere. In Micronesia: Mariana
Islands--Guam; Caroline Islands--Ulithi; Marshall Islands--Jaluit.

_Specimens examined._--Total number, 5 (2 males, 3 females), as
follows: Mariana Islands, AMNH--Guam, 4 (Dec. 2-4); Caroline
Islands, USNM, 1 (Aug. 21).

_Remarks._--Stickney (1943:8, 9) summarizes the available information concerning the Sanderling in Oceania. The bird may be classed as a regular visitor in eastern Micronesia; the most western record is from Ulithi in the western Carolines. It has been recorded also at Guam and Jaluit.

The NAMRU2 party secured one Sanderling from a flock of approximately thirty birds containing this species and _Charadrius mongolus stegmanni_ at Pau Island, Ulithi Atoll, on August 21, 1945.

=Calidris tenuirostris= (Horsfield)

Asiatic Knot

_Totanus tenuirostris_ Horsfield, Trans. Linn. Soc. London, 13, pt.
1, 1821, p. 192. (Type locality, Java.)

_Calidris tenuirostris_ Baker, Smithson. Misc. Coll., vol. 107,
no. 15, 1948, p. 54 (Peleliu).

_Geographic range._--Breeds in northeastern Siberia. Winters from
India east to Malaysia and Australia. In Micronesia: Palau
Islands--Peleliu.

_Specimens examined._--Four males from Palau Islands, USNM--Peleliu
(Sept. 16).