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HAMATOPUS. 
Hematopus, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. p. 257 (1766) ; Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. xxiv. p. 105 (1896). 
The characters of this genus are given above under the subfamily. 
“1. Hematopus palliatus. 
The Oyster-catcher, Catesby, Nat. Hist. Carolina, i. p. 85, t. 85°. 
Hematopus palliatus, Temm. Man. d’Orn. ii. p. 5327; Sel. & Salv. Ibis, 1859, p. 228°; Salv. 
Ibis, 1865, p. 190‘; 1889, p. 379°; Lawr. Ann. Lyc. N. Y. ix. pp. 141°, 210°; 
Mem. Bost. Soc. N. H. ii. p. 308°; Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus. no. 4, p. 46°; Grayson, 
Pr. Bost. Soc. N. H. xiv. p. 2847°; Sumichr. La Nat. v. p. 282"; Baird, Brew., & 
Ridgw. Water-Birds N. Amer. i. p. 112; A. O. U. Check-l. N. Amer. Birds, 2nd ed. 
p. 104%; Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. xxiv. p. 114"; Elliot, N. Amer. Shore-Birds, 
p- 209°; Nelson, N. Amer. Fauna, no. 14, p. 34°. 
Hematopus brasiliensis, Licht. Verz. Doubl. p. 737; Preis-Verz. Mex. Vég. p. 3"; Cab. J. f. Orn. 
1863, p. 59". 
Brunneus, uropygii lateribus et supracaudalibus pure albis; alis brunneis; tectricibus majoribus pure albis 
ad basin saturate brunneis; secundariis albis, intimis brunneis dorso concoloribus; primariis quinque 
externis sepiariis, proximorum rhachide medialiter alba; rectricibus sepiariis, ad basin albis; capite 
colloque undique nigris ; corpore reliquo subtus pure albo: rostro miniato ; pedibus pallide carneis ; iride 
lete flava, palpebris miniatis. Long. tota circa 17-5, ale 10°5, caude 4-2, culm, 3:7, tarsi 2-4. (Deser. 
maris adulti ex Chiapam. Mus. nostr.) 
© mari similis. 
Juv. adulto similis, sed plumis rufo marginatis distinguendus. 
‘Hab. Nortu AMERICA, sea-coasts of Temperate and Tropical sub-regions, occasional or 
accidental on the Atlantic coast north to Massachusetts and Grand Menan °.— 
Mexico (Deppe & Schiede'8 1°), Tres Marias Is. (Grayson® 1°), Mazatlan (Grayson *, 
Bischoff’), Rio Zacatula (Xantus*), Isabella I. (Grayson §), Tehuantepec", 
Tonala 4, Santa Maria del Mar 11, San Mateo, San Francisco® (Sumichrast), 
Merida, N. Yucatan (Schott 7), Cozumel I. (Gawmer® +); Guaremata, Pacific coast, 
Nagualate 3, Chiapam #14 (0. 8.); Costa Rica (Dow®), Bahia de Salinas (Mus. Nac. 
de Costa Rica, teste Underwood)’; Panama, Veragua (Arcé1*).—SovuTH AMERICa, 
eastern coast to Brazil ‘4; Wesr Inpixs \*. 
The American Oyster-catcher is found on both coasts of North and Central America, 
but we have not seen a specimen from the west coast of the southern continent. An 
example obtained by Mr. Rogers in Santa Catarina, Brazil, is in our collection, and 
the species probably migrates through the West-Indian Islands along the whole of the 
eastern coast of South America. 
Grayson !° says that it is common on the western coast of Mexico, being sometimes 
seen in flocks, and breeding both on the mainland and on the Tres Marias Islands. 
It must be noted, however, that Dr. Bowdler Sharpe, in the ‘ Catalogue of Birds,’ 
identifies a specimen from the last-named locality as H. frazart; and Mr. Nelson !5, while 
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