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spots ; lateral tail coverts and tail feathers white, elegantly barred 

 with blackish brown ; primary quills dark blackish brown, with 

 brown shafts. 



Ventral aspect. Chin, belly, flanks, and lateral tail coverts 

 with the vent pure white ; throat and middle of the breast white, 

 streaked with brown ; sides of breast and sides barred with brown, 

 very thickly so in the former place ; axillaries white, barred with 

 brown ; central tail coverts white with a deep subterminal bar of 

 brown. 



1st primary longest ; the others graduated ; long scapulars 

 equal to the 5th primary. Length 9 inches ; alar expanse 15 

 inches ; length of bill from the angle of the mouth \\ inch ; 

 length of the tarsus equal to the bill, viz., \\ inch. 



T, macularius, Sandlark or Spotted Tatler. 



Tringa maculata of Edwards ! 



Tringa (^Actodromas) Knaculata. Baird! 



B.C. This bird although exceedingly common, I am unable at 

 present to describe from a specimen, as I cannot obtain one. The 

 following however is from Nuttal : 



Glossy olive brown waved with dusky ; rump and tail of the 

 same colour as the rest of the plumage; one or more outer tail 

 feathers white barred with black ; quills dark olive brown with a 

 large spot of white on the inner web. Adult beneath white with 

 roundish dusky spots; bill yellow below, black towards the tip. 

 Young, beneath white ; wing coverts edged but not barred with 

 waving dusky Hues ; upper mandible blackish. 



I have never met the T. Bartramii in this district. 



Fam. V, Macrodactyli, 

 Oenus Rallus, 



Gen. char. Bill longer or shorter than the head, thick at base, 

 becoming suddenly compressed, grooved for the half length of the 

 upper mandible, curved at the extremity, and the base projecting 

 on the forehead ; nostrils in the furrow basal, lateral, more or less 

 linear ; toes four ; thumb long, not longer than a single joint of 

 the middle toe ; wings rounded ; 2nd, 3rd, and 4th primaries 

 longest, the flight consequently feeble ; tail of 12 feathers, not 

 longer than the coverts. 



Subdivision ist. Bill longer than the head, curved, nostrils 

 linear. 



