_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)