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BIRDS OF THE COMMANDER ISLANDS. 



Co>n2)(n-ative measnrcmeHts. 

 a. LIMOSA LIMOSA. 



TJ.S. ! 



Nat. ; Collector 



Mas. j and 'No. 



No. 1 



Sex 

 aud 

 ajre. 



Tail- 



Locality. 



Exp. 



Date. Winjr. feath- ^f^'^^ 



ers. 



9400 

 56974 



1 ad. "Europe" 



Schliit.,946, "cf "ad. ....do 



'Summer" 



2(8 

 206 



Middle 

 Tar- toe 

 siis. with 

 claw. 



b. LIMOSA MELANUROIDES. 



97974 ad. 



109436 Namive ... d" ad. 



106615 Grebn.,134 cTad. 



109435 Nami ye . . . : ? ad. 



85743 Ferguson. ?ad. 



Tokohama, Japan . 185 



Shimosa, Japan . . . i Mar. 18, 1883 186 



Berins Island June 9, 1884 : 184 



Shimosa, Japan ...\ Mar. 18, 1883 198 



Shanghai, China .., Mar. 18, 1881 200 



50 (56). Pseudototanus guttifer (Nordm.) 124. 



Oae specimen shot on Bering Island during the spring migration. 



It is curious that this bird has not been found anywhere except at 

 Okhotsk and in Kamtschatka in summer, and in India in winter. 

 It is one of the rarest waders in collections, and the type specimen in 

 the Berlin Museum and the one in the U. S. National Museum seems to 

 be the only summer specimens preserved. 



Since writing the account of this species (Zeitsch. Ges. Ornith., 1, 18S4, 

 p. 223, pi. X ; Orn. Expl. Kamtsch., pp. 123, seq.) I have had the op- 

 portunity to verify the quotations from " Stray Feathers," thanks to the 

 generosity of Mr. W. E. Brooks, who presented a full set of this maga- 

 zine to the library of the National Museum. Thus the first quotation 

 of the synonymy of the genus should be corrected to 

 187^^.— Pseudototanus Hume, Stray Featli., VII, p. 488. 



A corresponding correction should be made in the quotation of the 

 fifth specific synonym, and under the fourth synonym should be added 

 the following quotations, to be inserted before " Harting " : 



Hume, Stray Feath., IV, 1876, p. 346.— 7f7., ibid., VI, 1878, p. 463. 



51 (57). Totanus nebularius (Gunx.) 128. 

 Common during the spring migration. 



Owing to the lack of a suflicient series I have, in my Orn. Expl. 

 Kamtsch., p. 128, expressed some doubts whether the Greeushank from 

 Eastern Asia ought not to stand as Totanus nehularius glottoides. The 

 accumulation since then of a series of twenty-six specimens from all parts 

 of the range of the present species has convinced me that the latter 

 name has not the slightest foundation in facts. I have before me 

 specimens from Bering Island, Japan, China, Siam, various parts of 

 India, ten specimens from different localities in Europe, and two from 

 South Africa, but I can discover no character by which to separate the 

 eastern from the western ones. The dusky marks on rump, under wing- 



