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384 CHARADRIIDZ. 
in the British Museum collection, one being pale buff, very thickly mottled and 
speckled with rich rufous-bronze, and the other of a greyish cream-colour, blotched 
and spotted with sepia, brown, and pale underlying purple ¥. 
Subfam. SCOLOPACIN A. 
This subfamily, which comprises several of the Sandpipers and the Snipes, differs 
from the Totanine in having the toes cleft to the base, without any connecting-web. 
The species of this group, like those of the foregoing, are practically cosmopolitan 
in their distribution. 
TRINGITES. 
Tringites, Cab. J. £. Orn. 1856, p. 418; Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. xxiv. p. 521 (1896). 
In this genus the legs are decidedly long, the tarsus exceeding the culmen in length, 
and being longer than the middle toe and claw. In all the other members of the 
Scolopacine the tarsus does not exceed the dimensions of the bill. The inner webs of 
the primaries are mottled. The tail is long and doubly emarginate. 
Only one species of Tringites is known, peculiar to the New World, nesting in 
the north, and visiting Central America on migration on its way south to its winter 
residence. 
1. Tringites subruficollis. 
Chorlito garganta blanca acanelada, Azara, Apunt. 111. p. 320°. 
Tringa subruficollis, Vieill. N. Dict. d’ Hist. Nat. xxxiv. p. 465°. 
Tringites subruficollis, A. O. U. Check-l. N. Amer. Birds, p. 158°; ibid. 2nd ed. p. 96‘; Cherrie, 
Auk, 1892, p. 829°; Elliot, N. Amer. Shore-Birds, p. 145°; Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. 
xxiv. pp. 521", 766°; Oates, Cat. Eggs Brit. Mus. ii. p. 51°. 
Tringa rufescens, Vieill. N. Dict. d’Hist. Nat. xxxiv. p. 470"; Seebohm, Geogr. Distr. Charadr. 
p. 4467. 
Tringites rufescens, Cab. J. f. Orn. 1856, p. 418”; Dresser, Ibis, 1866, p. 89; v. Frantz. J. f. 
Orn. 1869, p. 377"; Dugés, La Nat. i. p. 142"; Baird, Brew., & Ridgw. Water-Birds 
N. Amer. i. p. 805°; Salv. Ibis, 1889, p. 379°”. 
Pil. hiem. Supra maculata, plumis nigris, arenario-rufo marginatis; ala spuria, tectricibus primariorum et 
remigibus brunneis, intus nigro irroratis, albido anguste terminatis, macula subterminali nigra; rectricibus 
medianis nigricantibus, reliquis brunneis rufescenti-albo terminatis, nigro sparsim irroratis et subter- 
minaliter fasciatis; pileo arenario, nigro anguste striolato; facie laterali et corpore subtus pallide 
cinnamomeo-rufis, plumis indistincte albido marginatis, abdomine et subcaudalibus pallidioribus; sub- 
alaribus clare cinnamomeis, marginalibus ad basin seriatim nigris; tectricibus primariorum inferioribus 
et remigibus infra nigro marginatis: rostro sordide olivascenti-viridi; pedibus sordide flavicanti-viridibus ; 
iride coryllina, Long. tota circa 7:4, ale d°2, caude 2°35, culm. 1:05, tarsi 1°35. (Descr. avis adult ex 
Ins. Ruatan. Mus. nostr.) 
Pil. estiv. a ptilosi hiemali vix distinguenda, sed paullo rufescentior, et pectore summo laterali et preepectore 
maculis paucis nigris ornatis. (Descr. maris adulti ex Point Barrow. Mus. nostr.) 
Hab. Norv America, especially in the interior; breeding in the Yukon district 
