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Heteractitis incanus (Gmel.). 

 Wandering Tattler. Ulili. 



l788.—Scolo2)axincana Gmelin, S. N., I, p. iibS.—Totanm incanus Gray, Cat. B. Trop. 

 LsL Pacif., p. 50 (1859).— Sclater, P. Z. S., 1873, p. 351.— Id., Rep. Voy. 

 " Challenger," Zool., II, pc. viii, Birds, p. 99 (18Sl).—Actitis incanus Dole, 

 Proc. Boston See. Nat. Hist., XII, 1869, p. 303, Estr., p. 10.— Id., Hawaiian 

 Almanac, 1879, p. 52.— J. incana FiNSCH, Ibis, 1880, p. 79.— Heteroscelus 

 incanus Streets, U. S. Nat. Mus. Bull. 7, p. 19 (1877). 



1826.—Scolopax solitaris Bloxham, Voy. "Blonde," App., p. 2r)2.—Totanu8 s. Hart- 

 LAUB, Wiegm. Arch. Natiirg., 1852, p. 135. 



1854. — Totaous soUtarius Hartlaub, Journ. f. Orn., 1854, p. 170. 



1854. — Actitis pulverulentus Lichtenstein, Nomencl. Av. Mus. Zool. Berol., p. 92 (nee 



MtJLL.). 



[For additional synonyms see my " Res. Oruith. Explor. Kamtsch.," p. 132 (1885).] 



Two specimens confirm the correctness of my supposition (see Res. 

 Orn. Expl. Kamtsch., p. 135) that it is the present species (the one with 

 the long nasal groove) that occurs in the Hawaiian Islands, and not H. 

 hrevipes. 



Measurements. 



U.S. 



Nat. 

 Mas. 

 No. 



Collector, 



110027 iKnudsen. 



110028 



..do 



Sex 

 and 



Locality. 



Date. 



Wins 



Kauai, Hawaiian' 



Islands. j 



do 



167 



Tail- E^-, 

 feath.P°^«d 



^''- 'men. 



Length 



ol 



nasal 



groove. 



Tar- 



sas. 



Middle 



toe 



with 



claw. 



Numenius femoralis Peale. 

 Bristle-thighed Curlew. 



1848.— Numenius femoralis Peale, Zool. U. S. Expl. Exp., 1 ed. (p. 233).— Cassin, 



U. S. Expl. Exp. Mam. Orn., 2 ed., p. 316. pi. xxxvii. 

 18S0.—Numeniustahitien8is Ridgway, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., Ill, p. 10 (nee Gmel. ?).— 



Id., Water B. N. Am., I, p. 324 (1884). -A. O. U. Check List, p. 159, No. 



268. 



I do not think that Latham's " Otaheite Curlew " (Gen. Syn., Ill, i, p. 

 122), upon which is based Gmelin's Scolopax tahitiensis, is the present 

 bird. He states the size to be that of If. arquatus, and the bill 4 inches 

 long, dimensions entirely too large for the present species. The rest of 

 his description fits equally well J^. cyatiopus, or better, inasmuch as it 

 entirely omits the diagnostic and striking peculiarities of If. femoralis. 

 This latter is easily distinguished from the other species of Curlew by 

 having the shafts of the thigh feathers prolonged into glossy, barbless 

 bristles; by its nearly unspotted, buffy-white upper tail-coverts strongly 

 contrasted against the dark rump, and by the under tail-coverts being 

 unspotted whitish. In addition to these characters If. femoralis has 

 the crown of the head dark sooty-brown, with a light mesial line of 

 buff ; the primaries have light bars in the inner web, and the under 

 wing-coverts and axillaries are buff with dusky cross-bars. 



Mr. Dole (Proc. Boston Soc. X. H., XII, 1869, p. 303, Extr., p. 10) in- 

 cludes N. australis Gould (= If. cijanopus Yieillot) in the list of 



