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‘ 1. Totanus melanoleucus. 
Stone Snipe, Penn. Arctic Zool. p. 468 °. 
Scolopax melanoleuca, Gm. Syst. Nat. i. p. 659. 
Totanus melanoleucus, v. Frantz. J. £. Orn. 1869, p. 877°; Nutting, Pr. U. S. Nat. Mus. “Wie 
p. 379‘; Baird, Brew., & Ridgw. Water-Birds N. Amer. i. p. 269°; Ferrari-Perez, 
Pr. U. S. Nat. Mus. ix. p. 178°; Seebohm, Geogr. Distr. Charadr. p. 3637; Allen, Bull. 
Amer. Mus. N. H. v. p. 33°; A. O. U. Check-l. N. Amer. Birds, 2nd ed. p. 93°; Elliot, 
N. Amer. Shore-Birds, p. 117"; Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. xxiv. p. 426”. 
Glottis melanoleuca, Scl. P. Z. S. 1857, p. 215 ». . 
Gambetta melanoleuca, Scl. & Salv. Ibis, 1859, p. 229"; Scl. P.Z.S. 1860, p. 253 4. Lawr. Ann. 
Lye. N. Y. vii. p. 479%; ix. p. 141%; Mem. Bost. Soc. N. H. i. p. 809 7; Bull. U.S. 
Nat. Mus. no. 4, p. 47"; Dugés, La Nat. i. p. 142% ; Salv. P.Z.S. 1870, p. 2193, 
Sumichr. La Nat. v. p. 2382”. 
Ptil. hiem. Supra cinerascenti-brunneus, plumis nonnullis nigro et albo minute notatis ; tectricibus alarum 
majoribus et secundariis eodem modo fasciatim notatis ; supracaudalibus albis, longioribus fusco anguste 
fasciatis; rectricibus cinerascenti-brunneis, fusco extus dentatis, extimis intus albis brunneo fasciatis 
vel vermiculatis ; loris et supercilio indistincto albis, illis nigro maculatis; regione parotica brunnescente ; 
genis et corpore subtus pure albis, prepectore brunneo striolato ; subalaribus et axillaribus albis, brunneo 
transfasciatis: rostro nigro, ad basin cxerulescenti-griseo; pedibus lete flavis, unguibus brunnescenti- 
nigris; iride saturate brunnea. Long. tota circa 12°0, ale 7:8, caude 2°9, culm. 2°35, tarsi 2°45. 
(Deser. feminse adulte ex Chiapam. Mus. nostr.) 
Ptil. estiv. Supra cinerascenti-brunneus, plumis medialiter nigris et albido dentatim maculatis, supracaudalibus 
albis nigro transfasciatis ; collo, preepectore et corporis lateribus nigro striolatis vel maculis cordiformibus 
notatis, (Descr. maris adulti ex Puebla. Mus. nostr.) 
Hab. Nort America, breeding from Iowa and Northern Illinois northward °.— 
Mexico 21, Sonora (Robinette *), Presidio de Mazatlan (Forrer 4), Colima 
(Xantus ""), Guanajuato (Dugés °), Santana, Guadalajara (Lloyd 1"), San Mateo, 
Tehuantepec (Sumichrast 18), Orizaba (Bottert 12° Sallé 14), Atotonilco 11, Nativitas 
and Laguna del Rosario, Tlaxcala (Ferrari-Perez °), Progreso, N. Yucatan 
(Gaumer); GuaremaLa, Duefias (0. S. 1113), Chiapam (0. 8.14), Atitlan 
(Richardson); Nicaragua, San Juan del Sur, Pacific coast (Nutting *), Momo- 
tombo (Richardson 14); Costa Rica, San José (v. Frantzius*, Zeledon 14, Carmiol an 
Calleja #°), Punta Arenas, Laguna de Cartago (Underwood, in litt.) ; Panama, Chitra 
(Arcé 42°), Lion Hill (A‘Leannan ™ 15)Soura America generally '+; WEst 
Inpigs 11, 
The present species does not extend so far north during the breeding-season as 
its smaller relative, 7. flavipes, and it nests in some of the more northern United 
States, wandering south in winter into the Neotropical Region. On its southward 
journey it passes by both coasts, as well as through the interior of Central America, 
and was found to be common on the Pacific coast of Nicaragua by Mr. Nutting +. 
We met with it at Duefias in Guatemala, where the bird seemed to prefer-the lake-side 
to the marshy resort of the other species of Waders, and it usually occurred singly. 
