Part 53

Tringa minuta Hartlaub and Finsch, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1868, pp. 8, 118 (Pelew); Gray, Hand-list Birds, pt. 3, 1871, p. 50 (Pelew); Hartlaub and Finsch, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1872, pp. 89, 106 (Pelew); Finsch, Journ. Mus. Godeffroy, 8, 1875, pp. 5, 36 (Palau).

Tringa albescens Salvadori, Ornith. Papuasia, 3, 1882, p. 316 (Pelew); Wiglesworth, Abhandl. und Ber. Zool. Mus. Dresden, no. 6, 1890-1891 (1891), p. 64 (Pelew).

Limonites minuta Takatsukasa and Kudora, Tori, 1, 1915, p. 62 (Pelew).

Pisobia ruficollis Ridgway, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., 50, pt. 8, 1919, p. 290 (Pelew).

Pisobia minuta ruficollis Kuroda, in Momiyama, Birds Micronesia, 1922, p. 48 (Palau, Ulithi); Hand-list Japanese Birds, rev., 1932, p. 192 (Palau, Ulithi).

Calidris ruficollis ruficollis Hand-list Japanese Birds, 3d ed., 1942, p. 215 (Palau, Ulithi).

Calidris minuta ruficollis Mayr, Birds Southwest Pacific, 1945, p. 45 (Micronesia); Baker, Smithson. Misc. Coll., vol. 107, no. 15, 1948, p. 54 (Rota, Peleliu).

Geographic range.--Breeds from northeastern Siberia to northwestern Alaska. Winters south from the Malay area to Australia. In Micronesia: Mariana Islands--Rota; Palau Islands--Angaur, Peleliu; Caroline Islands--Ulithi.

Specimens examined.--Total number, 16 (4 males, 12 females), as follows: Mariana Islands, USNM--Rota, 1 (Oct. 20); Palau Islands, USNM--Peleliu, 14 (Sept. 6-14)--Angaur, 1 (Sept. 21).

Remarks.--The Little Stint is apparently a regular visitor to the Palau Islands and a less common visitor to the Mariana Islands. At Peleliu and Angaur the NAMRU2 party found these birds in small flocks of 10 to 15 at tidal flats and at inland ponds. On tidal flats the species appeared to remain apart from other kinds of shore birds, but at inland ponds the Little Stint was found in company with other species. On shooting into a mixed flock of shore birds at an island pond at Angaur, the writer secured specimens of this species and also of Erolia acuminata.

=Erolia subminuta= (Middendorff)

Least Sandpiper

Tringa subminuta Middendorff, Reise Nord. und Ost. Siberien, 2, Th. 2, 1853, p. 222, pl. 19, fig. 6. (Type locality, Western slopes of the Stanovoi Mountains and mouth of the Udá.)

Pisobia minutilla subminuta Hand-list Japanese Birds, rev., 1932, p. 192 (Koror).

Calidris minutilla subminuta Hand-list Japanese Birds, 3d ed., 1942, p. 215 (Koror); Mayr, Birds Southwest Pacific, 1945, p. 45 (Palau).

Geographic range.--Breeds in northeastern Asia. Winters south to India and east to Malaysia. In Micronesia: Palau Islands--Koror.

Remarks.--The Least Sandpiper has been recorded in the Palau Islands by the Japanese investigators. It is probably an uncommon visitor to this area.

=Erolia melanotos= (Vieillot)

Pectoral Sandpiper

Tringa melanotos Vieillot, Nouv. Dict. Hist. Nat., 34, 1819, p. 462. (Type locality, Paraguay.)

Pisobia melanota Hand-list Japanese Birds, rev., 1932, p. 192 (Ponapé).

Calidris melanotos Hand-list Japanese Birds, 3d ed., 1942, p. 215 (Ponapé).

Calidris melanota Mayr, Birds Southwest Pacific, 1945, p. 45 (Ponapé).

Geographic range.--Breeds on the Arctic coast of northeastern Asia and eastward into Arctic America. Winters to South America. In Micronesia: Caroline Islands--Ponapé.

Remarks.--The Pectoral Sandpiper has been recorded from Ponapé. Bryan and Greenway (1944:114) list the species as an "accidental" visitor to the Hawaiian Islands from North America.

=Erolia acuminata= (Horsfield)

Sharp-tailed Sandpiper

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