656 BIRDS FROM MARGARITA— ROBINSON. 



VOL. XVIII. 



darker on lesser and middle coverts; breast and sides of body smoke 

 gray; abdomen and under tail coverts light bufly gray; thighs ^vood 

 brown. Under surface of wings and tail light slaty gray, lighter on 

 axillaries and under wing-coverts, outer border of the latter mixed with 

 pale cinnamon; border of wings buffy white, mixed with pale cinnamon; 

 "irides yellowish red j feet orange.-' Wing, 6.13; tail, 2.18; tarsus, 1.78; 

 culmen, 2.35 inches. This species ap]>ears to be closely related to 



B. striata of South America, but is considerably smaller, and the color 

 of the fore and hind neck and edge of wing approach B. virescens.— 



C. W. E.] 



Family SCOLOPACID.E. 



12. EREUNETES OCCIDENTALIS, Lawrence. 



AVESTERN SANDPIPER. 



13. CALIDRIS ARENARIA (Linnaeus), 



SAXDERLING. 



Aloug the shores of the lagoon east of Porlamar there were many 

 flocks of small sandpipers and plovers, and, on July 7, at one shot, I 

 obtained the two above, two species of plover, and a turustoue. 



Family CEDICIs^EMIDyE. 



14. CEDICNEMUS BISTRIATUS (Wagler). 



AMERICAN THICK-KNEE. 



Native name "guara." In a courtyard of a dwelling in Porlamar, I 

 saw several pairs of these birds, and their owner told me that he had 

 caught them when not fully fledged in the wide savanna to the west of 

 the town. Their eyes are most brilliant yellow, like those of an owl. 



Family CHAPvADlUID.F. 



15. ^GIALITIS WILSONIA RUFINUCHA, Ridgway. 



RUFOUS-NAPED PLOVER. 

 Legs grayish pink. 



[A male in the collection has the pectoral band of the usual width; 

 browji, mixed with black. — C. W. K.J 



16. ^GIALITIS SEMIPALMATA, Bonaparte. 

 SEMIPALMATED PLOVER. 

 One shot July 7. Legs clay color, base of beak orange. 



17. -(EGIALITIS NIVOSA, Cassin. 

 SNOWY PLOVER. 

 A specimen obtained July 2. Legs grayish blue. 



