_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