BIRDS OP NOBTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 225 



Machetes planiceps Brehm, Vog. Deutschl., 1831, 671 (Pomeranian Islands and 



middle Germany). 

 Totanus indicus Gray and Hardwicke, Illustr. Ind. Zool., ii, 1832, pi. 52, fig. 1, 



pi. 54, figs. 1, 2. 

 Machetes variabilis C. T. Wood, Orn. Guide, [1837,] 203 (Substitute name for 



Tringa pugnax Linnaeus). 

 Philomachus pugnax indicus Reichenbach, Grallatores, 1850, pi. 72, figs. 596-600. 

 lAmosa hardwickii Gray, Illustr. Ind. Zool., ii, pi. 52, fig. 2. 

 Machetes oplatus Hodgson, in Gray's Zool. Misc., 1844, 86 (Nepal). 

 Machetes minor Breum, Vogelf., 1855, 320 (Greece and the Blue Nile). 

 Tei'ekia cinerea (not Scolopax cinerea Guldenstadt) Butler, Stray Feath., iv, 1876, 



17; V, 1877, 233 (Deesa, India, July-March). 



Genus TRYNGITES Cabanis. 



Tryngitesa Cabanis, Journ. fiir. Orn. ,1856, 418. (Type, by original designation, 



Tringa rufescens Vieillot= T. suhruficollis Vieillot.) 

 Tringites (emendation) Sclater, Ibis, 1862, 277. — Sharps, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., 

 xxiv, 1896, 520. 



Medium-sized Eroliiii8e(?) (wiiig 122-136 mm.) with bill decidedly- 

 shorter than head, malar antia on vertical line with middle of nostril, 

 loral feathering in contact with posterior end of nostril, and inner 

 webs of remiges marbled or freclded with dusky. 



Bill much shorter than head (as long as middle toe without claw, 

 or slighth^ shorter),- slender, tapermg terminally in lateral profile, 

 the tip of maxdla depressed and slightly decurved; nasal groove 

 extending about three-fourths the distance to tip of maxilla, rather 

 broad posteriorly but contracted anteriorly; nostril basal (in contact 

 posteriorly with loral feathering), longitudinally linear, but divided 

 into two nearly equal parts by a knob-like internasal process descend- 

 ing from upper portion; loral and latero-frontal antise on same 

 vertical hne, both in contact with (or very nearly so) the posterior 

 end of nostril; malar antia on same vertical hne as middle of nostril, 

 the mental antia anterior to anterior end of nostril. Wing long and 

 pointed, the longest primary (outermost) exceeding distal secondaries 

 by about half the length of the wing; elongated, acuminate tertials 

 reaching nearly to tip of longest primaries. Tail less than half as long 

 as wing, sliglitly rounded, the middle pair of rectrices projecting 

 slightly but decidedly; retrices 12, rounded at tips, the middle pair 

 shghtly but distinctly contracted terminally. Tarsus about one and 

 one-fourth times as long as middle toe with claw, more than one- 

 fourth as long as wing, continuously scutellate anteriorly and pos- 

 teriorly; bare portion of tibia decidedly shorter than middle toe with- 

 out claw, scutellate before and behind; lateral toes decidedly shorter 

 than middle toe, the outer slightly longer than the inner; toes cleft 

 to the base. 



oTpy77aj=2Vin^a (Cabanis). 

 40017— 19— Bull. 50, pt 8 16 



