3716 CHARADRIIDA. 
- regione parotica brunneis ; fascia supralorali et palpebris albis; facie laterali albida, brunneo lineata ; 
gula et corpore reliquo subtus albis, collo laterali et pectoris summi lateribus brunneis ; gutture imo et 
preepectore brunneo striolatis; subalaribus et axillaribus nigricantibus, illis albo marginatis, his regulariter 
albo transfasciatis: rostro virescenti-nigro; pedibus virescenti-cinereis ; iride brunnea. Long. tota 
circa 8:0, ale 5:5, caude 2°2, culm. 1°35, tarsi 1:3. (Deser femine adultz ex Duefias. Mus. nostr.) 
Pil. esti. ptilosi hiemali similis, sed ubique albo maculatim notatus, pileo quasi striolato: subtus pure albus, 
gutture imo nigro striolato. Long. tota 7:6, ale 5:2. (Descr. femine adulte ex Brownsville, Texas. 
Mus. nostr.) 
Hab. Norta America, breeding occasionally in the Northern United States, more 
commonly northward (H. solitarius) 11; Pacific coast-region, eastward to the Plains 
(H. cinnamomeus) *1,—MeExico 5 ( Wagler 28, Deppe & Schiede **), San Diego ® and 
Cachuta*°, Sonora (Robinette®), Rio Grande, near Matamoros (Dresser 2°), Mazatlan 
(Grayson 1), city of Mexico (White !8), Tapana, Tehuantepec city (Sumichrast ??), 
Sierra San Domingo, Tehuantepec, Aguas Calientes (Aichardson 2"), Cuajimalpa 
(Tacubaya), Las Vigas, Puebla, Playa Vicente, Vera Cruz (Ferrari-Perez"), 
Cordova (Sallé 4"), N. Yucatan, Holbox I. (Gaumer *"), Tabi (Ff. D. G.2"); Brrrisu 
Honpuras (Blancaneaua®"); Guatemata (Skinner 4), San Gerdénimo, Duefias 
(O. 8.1114) ; Honpuras, San Pedro ( Whitely 1°), Ruatan I. (Gauwmer’); Nicaragua, 
Rio Escondido (Richmond }*); Costa Rica (v. Frantzius®), San José (Cherrie ’, 
Calleja ®°, Carmiol 2°27), Volcan de Miravalles!*, Reventazon, Alajuela, Tala- 
manca, Jiménez (Underwood, in litt.) ; Panama 19, Castillo 24, Volcan de Chiriqui 
(Arcé?"), Lion Hill 24?” (M‘Leannan).—Soutn America generally in winter 2’; 
West Inp1zs 27. 
An Eastern and a Western race of the Solitary Green Sandpiper are recognized by 
American ornithologists, the Western bird, 1. cinnamomeus, being an inhabitant of the 
Pacific coast, and distinguished by the cinnamon tint of the light spots on the plumage. 
Intermediate specimens between the Western and Eastern forms are not unfrequent, as 
is often the case between birds from the Atlantic and Pacific regions of North America : 
and as the existence of such specimens is admitted, we fail to see that two independent 
races can be upheld, though the interesting fact must be recorded that the Green 
Sandpipers from Western North America do show more rufescent spots than those 
from the eastern side. 
Little is known of its nesting-habits, common though the bird may be, and it is 
probable that the Solitary Sandpiper, like its European ally (Z/. ochropus), builds in 
trees, and selects the deserted nest of some other species. 
H. solitarius frequents the banks of tidal rivers and creeks, feeding on small crustacea 
and worms, like other birds of its class, and on migration is found inland. 
HETERACTITIS, 
Heteractitis, Stejneger, Auk, 1. p. 236 (1884) ; Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. xxiv. p. 449 (1896). 
This genus, which belongs to the Tattlers, is not far removed from Totanus, 
