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crimson ; legs and feet (in life) purplish red. Wing, 9.80-10.25 ; culmen, 2.85-3.50 ; 

 tarsus, 2.00-2.20 ; middle toe, 1.20-1.40. Hah. Palaearctic region, New Zealand, etc. 



2. H. palliatus. Rump brownish slate, like back and wings ; iris bright yellow ; legs and 



feet dull tieshy white or pale dull flesh-color. Yoiimj : Top and sides of head speckled 

 with pale brown; feathers of upper parts broadly margined with dull buft'; bill brownish; 

 iris lirown. Doimiy young : Above, light brownish gray, faintly mottled with dusky, and 

 marked with two irregular black stripes down the back and one along each side ; a 

 post-ocular black streak ; lower parts, except foreneck, white. Wing, 9.75-11.00 ; cul- 

 men, 3.00-3.70 ; tarsus, 2.05-2.55 ; middle toe, 1.20-1.55. Hah. Coasts of America in 

 general, except Pacific coast north of Lower California. 

 B. Plumage entirely blackish. 



3. H. niger. Entire plumage brownish black, more plumbeous on the head and neck. 



o. Wing, 9.60-10.75; culmen, 2.50-2.95; greatest depth of bill, forward of nostril, .45-.52; 



tarsus, 1.85-2.25; middle toe, 1.30-1.65. Hah. Pacific coast of North America. Var. 



niger. 

 b. Wiug, 10.25-10.80; culmen, 2.90-3.00; tarsus, 2.20; middle toe, 1.70-1.75; greatest 



depth of bill anterior to nostril, .60. Hah. Pacific coast of South America. Var. ater.^ 



In this species, or race, according to authors, the iris is yellow, eyelids red or orange-red, bill 

 orange-red, and feet flesh-color, or grayish. 



• H. palliatus. 



The Hamatopus leucopus (Garnot), recognized by Sclater and Salvin {Nomendator Neotropi- 

 calium, p. 143), is a South American species, with which we are unacquainted. Its habitat is 

 Tierra del Fuego. In the adult of this species the bill is red or orange-red, the iris bright yellow 

 or orano-e, the eyelids yellow or red, the legs and feet flesh-colored or grayish. In the young, the 

 bill is brownish, the iris brown, the legs and feet grayish. (Of. Scl. & Salv. P. Z. S. 1878, 437, 

 438 ; Sharpe, P. Z. S. 1881, 15.) 



1 H.s:matopus niger ater. 



Hoematoims ater, Vieill. Gal. Ois. II. 1825, 88, pi. ccxx. — Cassix, in Baird's B. N. Am. 1858, 



700. — Baird, Cat. N. Am. B. 1859, no. 514. — Scl. & Salv. P. Z. S. 1878, 438. — Sharpe, 



P. Z. S. 1881, 15. 

 Hoematopus niger, Cuv. Reg. An. I. 1829, 504 (not of Pallas, 1831). 

 Bccinatopxis Townscndii, AuD. Orn. Biog. Y. 1839, 247, pL 427 ; Synop. 1839, 229 ; B. Am. Y. 



1842, 245, pi. 326. 



