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ff. Smaller, with longer middle toe; averaging: adult male: wing, 250.9; 

 tail, 97.1; culmen, 82.1; greatest depth of bill, 12.2; tarsus, 51.7; 

 middle toe, 42.1; adult female, w'ing, 253.5; tail, 97.7; culmen, 82; 

 greatest depth of bill, 12.7; tarsus, 52.5; middle toe, 43.4; color of 

 back, etc., averaging darker, white on wings more restricted, and 

 under tail-coverts wholly white. (Galapagos Islands.) 



Haematopus palliatus galapagensis (p. 39). 



dd. Bill much smaller (exposed culmen 64.8 mm.); upper tail-coverts wholly 



dusky; greater wing-coverts more narrowly tipped with wliite; axillars 



mottled with grayish brown; legs and feet grayish yellow (in life). (Coast 



of Patagonia.) Haematopus durnfordi " (extralimital). 



cc. Back, scapulars, etc., deep blue-black, like head and neck; breast uniform 

 blue-black; bill very slender, its greatest depth less than 10 (9-9.5 mm.). 

 (Falkland Islands and coasts and islands of Straits of Magellan.) 



Haematopus leucopodus (extralimital ).& 

 aa. Plumage unicolored (wholly black or sooty); no white on wings or tail. 



6. Averaging smaller, with much narrower and le-ss compressed bill (greatest depth 

 12-14 mm.); breast dark sooty bro^\n, like abdomen, etc.; legs and feet fleshy 

 white and iris yellow in life. (Pacific coast of North America, from Lower 



California to Alaska.) Hsematopus bachmani (p. 40). 



66. Averaging larger, with much deeper and more compressed bill (greatest depth 

 15-16.5 mm.); breast black, like head and neck; legs and feet greenish 

 yellow and iris dark orange in life. (Pacific coast of South America from 

 Peru 'southward, and shores and islands of Straits of Mairellan to Falkland 

 Islands.) « Haematopus ater (extralimital). <= 



Hxmatopus palliatus (not of Temminck) Dumford, Ibis, 1878, 403 (Tambo Point, 

 mouth of Chupat River, Patagonia, breeding); Sclater and Hudson, Orn. Argent., ii, 

 1889, 176 (Tambo Point). — Hxmatopus durnfordi Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xxiv, 

 1896, 117, pi. 6 (Tambo Point. Patagonia; coll. Brit. Mus.) 



1 have not seen this form which, notwithstanding the statement that the color of 

 the legs and feet is greenish yellow in life, seems to be very closely related to //. palli- 

 atus frazari and H. p. galapagensis, and therefore possibly a subspecies of E. palliatus. 

 It agrees with the subspecies mentioned in dark-colored upper parts, spotted breast, 

 and restriction of white on wings, but has the last mentioned character more pro- 

 nounced than in either of the others. 



b Hxviatopus leucopodus Garnot, Ann. des Sci. Nat. vii, 1826, 47 (Falkland Islands). — 

 H[3ematopus'\ leucopodus Ridgway, Man. N. Am. Birds, 1887, 182. — Oslralega 

 leucopus Garnot and Lesson, Voy. Coquille, i, 1828, 721. — Hsematopus leucopus Gray, 

 List Birds Brit. Mus., Gralte, 1844, 72 (Tierra del Fuego); Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. 

 Mus., xxiv, 1896, 113, 730. — Hsematopus luctuosus Cuvier, R5gne Anim., ed. 2, i, 

 1829, 504. — Hxmatopus arcticus Jardine, ed. Wilson's Am. Orn., iii, 1832, 35, pi. 64, 

 fig. 2; Jardine and Selby, lUustr. Orn., 1833, pi. 125. 



c Hxmatopus ater Vieillot, Gal. Ois.. ii, 1825, 88, pi. 230 (Straits of Magellan); 

 Caasin, in Baird, Rep. Pacific R. R. Surv., ix, 1858, 700; Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. 

 Mus., xxiv, 1896, 121, 731.— OsimZeg-a atra Les.son, Traits d'Orn., 1831, bA^.— Hxma- 

 topus niger ater Baird, Brewer and Ridgway, ^^'ater Birds N. Am., i, 1884, 109, foot- 

 note. — [Melanihyr] aier Heine and Reichenow, Nom. Mus. Hein. Orn., 1890, 337. — 

 Hxmatopus townsendi Audubon, Birds Am., fol. ed., iiii, 1830, pi. 427, fig. 3. — Hxma- 

 topus townsendi Audubon, Orn. Biog., v. 18.39, 247 ("coast of Oregon"; type now in 

 coll. U. S. Nat. Mus.); Birds Am., 8vo. ed., v. 1842, 245, pi. 326. 



