124 ORNITHOLOGICAL EXPLORATIONS. 



groove ou tbo upper maudible only reaching the middle of the bill; 

 lower mandible with a well-prououuced gonydeal angle. Malar apex 

 reaching forward beyond the loral apex; mental apex reaching beyond 

 the middle of the nostrils. 



Feet not very long, moderately strong ; tarsus longer than middle toe 

 with claw, scutellate in front and behind ; naked part of tibice about 

 the length of the two basal articles of the middle toe, scutellate at the 

 upper end, reticulate nearer to the titio- tarsal joint; outer and middle 

 toes united by a large basal web, middle and inner ones by a smaller 

 membrane, as large, however, as the usual web in Totanine birds be- 

 tween the outer and middle toes ; border of the toes distinctly serrated. 



Wings pointed, normally totanine ; first primary longest. 



Tail of normal length, square. 



This genus, which originally was established by Hume, afterwards 

 receiving by me the name Fseudoglottifi, on account of the superficial 

 resemblance of the type species to tlie type of Nil son's subgenus Glottis, 

 belongs to a group of the Totanine waders characterized by the semi- 

 palmated toes, and takes a position somewhat intermediate between the 

 genera Terel'ia and Sijm2)hcm!a. The basal webs are fully as well de- 

 veloped as in any of these recognized genera. 



Though distinct from both these genera it seems perhaps somewhat 

 nearer related to Symphemia than to Terehia, notwithstanding the fact 

 that up to the present date the type species has been given as a syno- 

 nym of the type of the latter genus. 



The three genera may be easily recognized by the following 



SYNOPSIS. 



a'. Bill extremely long, longer than tarsus i^lus the two basal articles of the middle 

 toe ; naked portion of tibiae reticulate in front ; feathering ou the mental angle 

 not reaching as far forward as the featheriug of the forehead or the hind border 

 of the nostrils; groove on the upper mandible long, reaching almost to the 

 tip TereMa. 



a*. Bill never longer than tarsus plus the first basal article of the middle toe ; naked 

 portion of tibiic scutellate in front above ; featheriug on the mental angle 

 reaching far in front of the featheriug of the forehead and beyoud the middle 

 of the nostrils ; groove on ui)per mandible does not reach beyoud the middle 

 the bill. 



b^ Culmen recurved, longer than tarsus Pseudoiotanus. 



b^. Culmen straight, shorter than tarsus . . . ; Symphemia. 



46. Pseudototanus guttifer (Nordm.). 



1835. — Totaniis guttifer Nordmann in Erman's Verzeichu. Thier. Pflanz, Reis. Erde, 



p. 17." 

 1854. — Xmus guttifer Lichtenstein, Nomencl. Mus. BeroL, p. 91. 



