_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.
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