ORNITHOLOGICAL EXPLORATIONS. 127 



A comparisou of tlie original description of v. i^ordmanu* with that 

 of my bird given below will prove the correctness of my identification. 



I)e.scriptio,>. <? ad.~U. S. Xai. Mus. Xo. 92H08, i. Stejnegcr Xo. 2088. Beriny Mand 

 May 22, 1883. 



Upper j)arts of the body, except the rump, blackish browu more and less edged with 

 whitish, as the white edges are dii!ereutly worn away; thus the crown is almost uni- 

 form brownish blade with a few white streaks; the neck is more uniforraily and finely 

 streaked longitudinally, while on the back the light edges become broader backward; 

 in many feathers on the latter part the whitish edges h^ve the inner border waved 

 or indented, the outline of the feathers by abrasion being correspondingly scalloped. 

 Among the dark feathers, and mos ly concealed by these, are left a number of uni- 

 form sandy gray feathers, the remainder of the winter plumage. The other parts of 

 the body are white ; the rump and the middle of abdomen unspotted; sides of the 

 head and neck, forehead, and superciliaries heavily streaked with blackish, most 

 densely on the lores ; chin with a few faint roundish spots, throat and foreueck sirongiy 

 marked with terminal, somewhat lanceolate, streaks; on the jugulum and the breast 

 the spots become subterminal, broadening so as to form rather large rounded drops 

 with a somewhat flattened basal border; on the anterior half of the flanks the spots 

 are still broader, almost assuming the character of cross-bars. Primaries blackish 

 brown, from the seventh lighter, brownish ash, as are also the secondaries, and with 

 white edges, which gradually become broader on the interior web of the secondaries 

 the nearer they are to the body ; white edges on the tertials with indented borders 

 and the feathers scalloped ; primary coverts with only a very narrow white terminal 

 edge, the other upper wiug-coverts with rather broad white edges, shafts of the 

 primaries brown, mesially lighter; that of the first one wholly white; all under win-- 

 coverts uniform pure white. Tail light ashy gray, whitish at the base, and iudistinctfy 

 mottled with darker gray along the edges which are whitish ; the mottlings hardly 

 visible on the middle pair; shafts of rectrices white, even those of the middle pair- 

 upper tail-coverts white, submargiually marked with dusky ; under tail-coverts white 

 with two or three small and irregularly placed dark spots or streaks. 



Total length. -287--; wing, 173"™; tail-feathers, 67-'; exposed culraen, 53°^-; tarsus 

 43'"'"; middle toe with claw, 3r)'""\t ' 



A single specimen was shot on Bering Island on the 22d of May, 1883, 



during my absence in Kainstchatka. It was prepared by my faithful 



Nicanor, one of tbe natives, whom we usually styled "the profissor." 



At the same time, two days later, I myself shot another specimen on the 



*As thisde-cription may be difficult for many ornithologists to consult, a reproduc- 

 tion is herewith given: 



124. Totanus guUifer. Xov. spec. Supra fuseogri.cus, sparsim alhido-macvlatux; collo pectoreque Mis 

 nigro-guttatis; cauda alba, obsolete griseo-signata. 



AusmcssiiDg: Liiuge 12", Lan-e des Sclmabels vom Mumlwinliel beinahe 2", Hohe des Schnabelsan 

 der Wurzel3"', Liiuge der Flugel 6" 3'". I.ange des Scbwanzes 2" 3'", Hoho der Ferso 1 ' 9'" Lan-« der 

 Mittelzehe 1", Lunge der Uiuterzelie beiuabe 3'". ' " 



Am iiaLh.steD mit Tot. glottis vei waudt, docb ist unser Vogel kleiner, der Schcabel starker zur 

 Spitze nacb oben gebogen, die Schwimmbaut zwiscben deo Zeben und die Fusse bedcutend kurzer 

 Uberkorpcr gr.iu. mit spaisan.en ^eissli.hen Flecken. Aufdem Kopf uud Nacken strichformi-e auf 

 der weissen K.ble. deni Vorderbals uu.l der Brust grosso scbwarze, tropCenartigc Fleckeu • Scbu'ibel 

 spbwarz. UnteikOrper beinabc eiufarbig wei«s, die spitzen iibcr den Scbwaiiz binausrei* benden 

 Schwuigen sebwaizheb; niittlero Scbwiinzfedein mit gicisseren scbwaizlicben Abzeieben. 



Das voihegeiido Exemplar diescr sebr ausgezcicliueten Ait wuide in der Umg.gend von O.bozk ira- 

 M..nat J.ili von J^rman eilegt. In der Sammlung der Akademie der Wissenscbaft, n zu St Peters 

 burg befindi n sicb zwei Individuen, wek'be wabrsibeinlicb aus derselben Gegend sind. (NordnianD 

 in Ermau's Verz. Tbier. I'flanz. Eeise urn die Erde, p. 17.) ' 



tThis measurement disagrees greatly with that given by Nordmanu, 1 inch, ^his 

 latter being probably oulj^ a misprint. 



