ALASKA. 187 



4:'.',]. LniBiosa iiropy;;:isiEis, (\i)V\.\>.— Wh\ie-rnmimJ(iochdt. 



Limom iiropiKiiaHs, iUniM.— hu. Trans. CliicMj^o Acad., i,320, pi. 

 :V2, (IHC.D.)— Dall ami Banx. Jbkl, 29:3.— Coles. Key X. A., 

 Birds ^58, (1H72.) 



This well-known Old World species, lately added to our 

 fauna, as above, is readily distinguished by the black and 

 white barrin^i^' of the up[)er tail-coverts. In winter the upper 

 parts are pale gray, with dusky shaft-lines, and the under parts 

 are nearly ^vhite — a condition never shown by our other species. 

 In full plumage, the white of the rump and ui)per tail-coverts is 

 more or less tinged with rusty, and the upi)er parts are brown- 

 ish black, everywhere variegated with rust^^ Bills of different 

 specimens before us range in length from 3i to 4i inches; those 

 of the adults are mostly uark, but in the young fully the basal 

 half is light-colored — dull whitish in the dried state. 



Mr. Elliott did not take the eggs of this species, but two 

 examples were secured by Mr. Dall, June 18, 1868, at Kutlik, 

 Alaska. These differ as much from each other as eggs of this 

 species do from those of other species. The ground of one is 

 quite greenish olive ; of the other, pale olive-gray. In the 

 former, the markings are all subdued neutral tints, apparently- 

 in the shell ; in the latter, the markings are nearly- all on the 

 surface, and quite bright chocolate-brown. In both cases the 

 markings are numerous and of indeterminate shape, mostly 

 small, and generally distributed, though tending to aggregate 

 at the butt, where alone they lose their distinctness in coalesc- 

 ing to form a splashed area. Size, 2.20 x 1.45; 2.2o x 1.50. 



'' Migratory only, never breeding here. Comes in a strag- 

 glifig manner early in May, passing northward with little de- 

 lay, and re-appears toward the end of August in docks of a 

 dozen to fifty.'' 



440. Ileteroscelus iescaiiiis (G.m.) Coues.— [r«»r/m»ry Tattler. 



^colopax incana, Gmel. Syst. Nat,, i, 658, (1768.)— Lath. Ind. 



Oni., ii, 724, (1790.) 

 Totanus bicanus, Vieill. Diet. Deterv., vi, 400. (1816.) 

 Heieroscdns hicauns, Coues. Key N. A. Birds, '261, (1872.) 

 Triuya glanola, Pall. Zoo*;. Rosso- As., ii, 194, pi. 60, (1811.) 

 Totanus hrevipes, Vieill. Diet. Deterv., vi, 400, (1816.)— Cass. 



Pr. A. N. S., viii, 40, (1856.) 

 Hcteroscehis bnvipcs, Baiud. B. X. A., 734, pi. 88, (1858.)— Dall. 



Tr. Cbic. Acad., i, 293, (1869.) 

 Totauus fuligiuosus, Gould. Voy. Beagle; Birds, 130, (1841.) — 



Ghav. G. of B., iii, pi. 154. 

 Scolopax iiudnJata, FoiiST. Descr. Auiin., ed. Licbt., 173, (1844.) 



