BIRDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 337 



T[otaniis] maculatus Maximilian, Beitr'. Naturg. Bras., iv, ii, 1833, 727 (Villa 



Vicosa, Brazil; type now in coll. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., see Allen, Bull. Am. 



Mus. N. H., ii, 1889, 271). 

 Totanus chilensis Philippi, Anales Univors. Chile, xiv, 1857, 182 (Chile); Archiv 



fur Nat., 1857, Bd. i, 264 (Prov. Valparaiso, Chile); Anales Mus. Nac. 



Chile, Entr. 15 (zool.), 1902, 63, pi. xxix, fig. 1. 

 (?) Totanus melanoleucus frazari Brewster, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., xli, no. 1, 



Sept., 1902, 05 (San Jose del Cabo. Lower California; coll. W. Brewster). — 



Miller (W. DeW.), Bull Am. Mus. N. H., xxi, 1905, 341 (Escuinapa, Sinaloa; 



crit.). 



NEO GLOTTIS FLAVIPES (Gmelin). 



YELLOW LEGS. 



Practically identical with N. melanoleuca in coloration, but much 

 smaller. 



Adults in breeding plumage (sexes alike). — Pileum and hindneck 

 streaked with dusky grayish brown or blackish and grayish white; 

 scapulars and interscapulars brownish gray irregularly spotted with 

 dull black and with smaller marginal spots of white or grayish white; 

 tertials brownish gray obliquely barred with black, the gray interspaces 

 becoming whitish on edges; lower back and rump dusky brownish 

 gray, the feathers margined terminally with white; upper tail- 

 coverts white, the larger (posterior) ones broadly barred with dusky, 

 otherwise with fewer and narrower bars or other markings, often 

 nearly immaculate anteriorly; tail white, shaded with brownish gray 

 on middle rectrices, rather broadly barred with dusky, the bars 

 narrower and more broken on lateral rectrices, on inner webs of which 

 they are confined to distal half; anterior lesser wing-coverts dark 

 brownish gray or dusky narrowly margined with white, the more 

 posterior ones with broader white margins and occasional small white 

 spots; middle and greater coverts brownish gray and dusky (either 

 predominating) spotted with paler gray and white; secondaries 

 deep brownish gray, narrowl}^ margined with white; primary coverts 

 and primaries fuscous or fuscous-black, the shorter (proximal) 

 primaries more grayish, narrowly margined with white; shaft of outer- 

 most primary pale grayish brown basally, passing into white, or 

 nearly white, distally; sides of head and neck and entire under 

 parts white, the lower breast, abdomen, anal region, and most of 

 under tail-coverts immaculate, the sides of head and neck and fore- 

 neck streaked with dusky, the chest spotted with dusky, and the 

 sides barred with the same; flanks nearly immaculate; lateral and 

 posterior under tail-coverts more or less barred with dusky; anterior 

 half (more or less) of superciliary stripe sparsely and minutely flecked 

 with dusky or, sometimes, nearly immaculate, the posterior portion 

 narrowly but distinctly streaked with dusky; a broad loral stripe of 

 grayish flecked with dusky, extending from bill to eye; eyelids white; 



40017— 19— Bull. 50, pt S 23 



