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[26.] Aegialitis coUaris (Vieillot). Collared Plover. 



*27. Oxyechus vociferus vociferus (Linnaeus). Killdeer. 



One specimen, Gatun, February 18, 1912. 



RECURVIROSTRID^. 

 *28. Himantopus mexicanus (P. L. S. Miiller). Black-necked Stilt. 



A female, Gatmi, November 12, 1911. Iris reddish-brown, bill 

 blackish, feet deep pink. 



Observed for a week on the edge of the hydraulic fill of Gatun dam. 



SCOLOPAOID^. 



*29. Numenius hudsonicus Latham. Hudsonian Curlew. 



A female, Gatun, October 18, 1911, shot from flock of four feeding 

 in a pasture on grasshoppers and butterflies. Iris brown, bill dusky- 

 greenish becoming black at the tip, feet grayish-blue. 



*[30.] Macrorhamphus griseus griseus (Gmelin). Dowitcher. 

 *[31.] Tetanus melanoleucus (Gmelin). Greater Yellowlegs. 

 *32. Totanus flavipes (Gmelin). Lesser Yellowlegs. 



A solitary male obtained at Gatun, May 21, 1911, and a flock of 

 half a dozen seen at the same place August 27, 1911. A female was 

 also obtained at Mindi, October 7, 1911. Iris brown, bill black, feet 

 yellow. 



Frequented a grassy marsh below the dam. 



*33. Helodromas solitarius solitarius (Wilson). Solitary Sandpiper. 



Female, Gatun, September 10, 1911 (not preserved); male, ]Mt. 

 Hope, April 13, 1913. Iris brown, bill greenish becoming black 

 terminally, feet green. 



A flock of four were seen September 10 in a small running stream. 



*34. Actitis macularia (Linnaeus). Spotted Sandpiper. 



Specimens obtained at Gatun, February 22, September 4 and Octo- 

 ber 1, 1911, and April 28, 1912; also at Pedro Miguel, April 23, 1911, 

 Toro Point, August 4, 1912. 



The individual obtained April 23 alighted on a dead tree top, four 

 feet above the water, an unusual action in a wader. 



*35. Bartramia longicauda (Bechstein). Field Plover. 



Two males, Gatun, October 12, 1911. Iris brown, bill yellowish 

 with dusky tip, feet yellowish-green. 

 Flushed in an open field. 



*36. Ereunetes pusillus (Linnaeus). Seniipalmated Sandpiper. 



Female, Toro Point, September 4, 1911. Iris, bill and feet black. 

 One of a few associated with many Pisohia minutilla on the beach. 



