372 Dr, A, Hall on the Mammals and Birds 



T.flavipes. Yellow-shank Tatler. 

 Scolopax Jlavipes of Wilson ! 

 Gamhetta Jlavipes. Baird ! 



v.s.p. Bill blackish ; legs and feet yellow; irides hazel; eggs 

 unknown. 



Dorsal aspect. Line from the base of the bill to the eye white ; 

 another from the nostrils to the eye, brown ; crown of head brown 

 edged with white ; nuchal region dark cinereous, faintly streaked 

 with white ; interscapulary region, long and short scapulars, great 

 and small wing coverts glossy brown, with triangular marginal 

 spots of white, which are tinted with brown on the back ; rump 

 white ; tail coverts white barred with brown ; tail square, white 

 barred with cinereous brown ; the two or four central feathers 

 deepest in colour ; the lateral ones pale irregularly barred ; the 

 side feathers wholly white on the inner vanes, and mottled on the 

 outer ; quills clove brown, from the 5 th downwards tipped with 

 white. 



Ventral aspect. Chin, belly, vent, and central tail coverts 

 pure white ; auriculars brown ; cheeks, throat, sides of the breast 

 and sides cinereous, the feathers tipped with ashy white and 

 white; flank feathers white, irregularly spotted with cinereous; 

 lateral, tail feathers, and axillaries white, barred with cinereous 

 brown. 



1st primary longest ; long scapulars subequal to the 5th pri- 

 mary, and longer than the 6th. Length 9j inches ; alar ex- 

 panse 18 inches; length of bill Ij inch; length of tarsus 1 inch 

 and about 10 lines to 2 inches. 



T. chloropygius. Green-rump Tatler. 

 Tringa solitaria of Wilson ! 

 Rhyacophilus soUtarius, Baird ! 



v.s.p. Bill black ; legs and feet olivaceous brown ; irides dark 

 hazel ; eggs unknown. 



Dorsal aspect. Line from the base of the bill over the eye, 

 white ; rictu-orbital line brown ; crown of head and nuchal re- 

 gion deep brown, the feathers faintly tipped with white ; inter- 

 scapulary region, long and short scapulars, and great wing coverts 

 glossy olive brown, with a deep sea green iridescence ; small wing 

 coverts and rump, plain glossy olive brown ; middle tail coverts 

 and middle tail feathers olive brown, with faint marginal white 



