BIRDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 107 



^gralites montanus Baird, in Kep. Ives' Expl. Col. 11., pt. 1, 1861, 6. 



Oxyechus montanus Henry, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., xi, 1859, 108 (New Mexico). 



Ochthodromus montanus Bonaparte, Compt. Rend., xliii, 1856, 417. 



Podasocys montanus Coues, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1866, 96 (Fort Whipple, 

 Arizona; New Mexico; habits); Check List, 2nd cd., 1882, no. 592. — Elliot, 

 Illustr. New and Unfig. N. Am. Birds, pt. 2, 1866 (a'oI. ii), text to pi. 39.— 

 Cooper, Am. Nat., iii, 1869, 183 (near Los Angeles, Cal.). — Lidgway, Nom. 

 N. Am. Birds, 1881, no. 523.— Brown (N. C), Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, vii, 

 1882, 41 (Boerue, Kendall Co., Texas, Jan. 2-Mar. 17). — Baird, Brewer, and 

 RiDGWAY, Water Birds N. Am., i, 1884, 172. — American Ornithologists' 

 Union, Check List; 3rd ed., 1910, 130.— Saunders, Auk, xxviii, 1911, 35 

 (Gallatin Co., Montana, breeding). — Phillips, Auk, xx\dii, 1911, 74 (Mata- 

 moros, Tamaulipas, Nov. 30).— ^Bunker, Kansas Univ. Sci. Bull., vii, 1913, 

 145 (w. Kansas, common summer resident).— Brooks (W. S.), Auk, xxxiv, 

 1917, 86 (Chatham, Massachusetts, 1 spec. Oct. 28, 1916). 



P[odasocys] montanus Coues, Key N. Am. Birds, 2d ed., 1884, 604. 



[Podasocys] montanus Sharpe, Hand-list, i, 1899, 153. — Forbes and Robinson, 

 Bull. Liverp. Mus., ii, no. 2, 1899, 6. 



Podasocys montana Rldgway, Proc. U. S, Nat. Mus., iii, 1880, 199 (Cat. N. Am. 

 Birds, no. 523). 



[Mgialitisi asiaticus var. montanus Coues, Key N. Am. Birds, 1872, 245. 



JEgialitis asiaticus . . . var. montanus Coue.s, Check, List, 1873, no. 402. 



Eudromias montanus (not Eudromias montana Brehm, 1831) Harting, Ibis, 1870, 

 202.— Coues, Check List, 1873, Appendix, p. 135; Birds Northwest, 1874, 

 456.— Nelson, Proc. Bost. Soc. N. II., xvii, 1875, 342 (Utah). 



Eudromias montana Coues, Am. Nat., viii, 1874, 600 (Montana, breeding). 



Endromias montanus Coues, Bull. U. S. Geol. and Geog. Surv. Terr., iv, 1878, 

 634 (Milk River, Frenchmans River, etc., Montana, breeding; habits). 



Genus PAGOLLA Mathews. 



Ochthodromus (not Ochihcdrovms LeConte, 1848) Reichenbach, Syst. A\'ium, 

 1853, p. xviii. (Type, by original designation, Charadrius wilsonia Ord.) 



Pagollai Mathews, Birds Australia, iii, pt. 1, April 2, 1913, 83. (Substitute 

 for Ochthodromus Reichenbach, preoccupied.) 



Medium-sized or rather small Charadriidse (wing 106-121 mm.) 

 with rather long and very stout bill (exposed culmen as long as or 

 longer than middle toe without claw), tai"sus less than one and a half 

 times as long as middle toe without claw (about one-fourth as long as 

 wing), and tail much more than one-third as long as wing, truncate 

 or very slightly rounded or double-rounded. 



Bill nearly as long as head, very stout, its depth at base equal to 

 nearly half the length of exposed culmen, the latter as long as or longer 

 than middle toe without claw; culmen with decidedly more than distal 

 half arched ; gonys much longer than mandibular rami, faintly convex, 

 ascending terminally, its basal angle not prominent. Wing long and 

 pointed, the longest primary (outermost) exceeding distal secondaries 

 by more than half the length of folded wing. Tail much more than 

 one-third as long as wing, truncate or very slightly rounded or double- 

 rounded. Tarsus less than one and a half times as long as middle toe 



« Pago, a Lapp name (ex Brisson, Orn., v. 64). (Mathews.) 



